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UAE avoids answering if it warned Netanyahu of Hamas attack
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The United Arab Emirates declined to address questions about whether it had alerted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a potential Hamas attack before October 7, according to Middle East Eye. The National, an Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, posed the questions to the UAE, with a Haaretz report later documenting the emirate's response.
The incident raises questions about pre-attack intelligence sharing between Gulf states and Israel ahead of the operation that killed hundreds of Israelis and triggered the subsequent war in Gaza.
