The three demands made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to avoid being sued, and vowed to reveal the truth in court.
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This relates to a report that Netanyahu received a warning before October 7, 2023, from the President of the UAE, Mohammed bin Zayed, during a phone call, that Hamas was planning to launch an attack.
Netanyahu denied having any contact with the UAE president during this period or receiving any warning from him, while the UAE Foreign Ministry said it does not comment on reports regarding talks between government leaders.
it “recently sent a letter of reply to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyer, rejecting his threat.
In her response, she pointed out that the report “addressed the UAE president’s warning to Netanyahu 10 days before the events of October 7 regarding a major operation planned by (the late Hamas leader Yahya) Sinwar against Israel.”
On that day, Hamas attacked military bases and settlements along the Gaza Strip, killing and capturing Israelis, in response to “the daily crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people and their holy sites, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” according to the movement.
Israeli military, intelligence, and political officials described the October 7 attack as an unprecedented political, security, and military failure in Israel's history.
While security, military and political officials have declared their responsibility for this failure, Netanyahu refuses to take any responsibility for it and has placed the blame on the army.
that the report “was the product of an in-depth, source-based journalistic investigation into a matter of great public importance.”
She continued, addressing the lawyer: “In the absence of full public accountability on the part of your client, the press is doing its part and revealing information to the public, and we will not back down from revealing the truth before the court as well.”
She expressed her rejection of Netanyahu’s “absurd” demands to delete the report , issue an apology, and pay 1 million shekels (about $331,000) for settlement purposes, coupled with a threat to file a lawsuit exceeding 2.5 million shekels ($827,000).
She stressed that these demands and the threat to sue the newspaper “reveal the true nature of your client’s approach: the sole aim is to silence journalistic criticism.”
that it received an official warning letter from Netanyahu.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu instructed his team to file a defamation lawsuit against Haaretz, journalists Eldar and Yuval, and “other parties” he did not specify.
According to the newspaper, Netanyahu ignored the Emirati warning about the possibility of Hamas launching an attack, and did not inform either the army or the Shin Bet security service.
While refusing to comment on the Haaretz report, the UAE Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv have maintained “open and direct channels of communication” since the beginning of relations between them more than 5 years ago, through which “intelligence information is exchanged” when needed.
Since October 8, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 73,000 martyrs and more than 174,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women.
Netanyahu has been wanted since 2024 to appear before the International Criminal Court on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.
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