Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused security officials on Tuesday of intentionally failing to wake him on the morning of Hamas\u2019 October 7 attacks, a day after his wife claimed an opposition figure knew of the onslaught in advance.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu is heading into close-fought elections later this year, and has come in for sustained criticism in the national debate over who is responsible for the failures that led to the October 7, 2023 security fiasco.<\/p>\n
The prime minister has alleged in the past that security officials refrained from waking him that morning, insisting that the attack would have been contained if he had stepped in earlier, but only in recent days has he begun to claim that the move was intentional.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t they wake me? Because they knew that I, as prime minister of Israel, would immediately have ordered to put the entire army on alert, to wake up all the towns (on the Gaza border) \u2026 It\u2019s so obvious that all of this could have been done. This has been hidden from the public,\u201d the premier said during a live interview on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu\u2019s assertions echo those he made in another podcast interview published Monday, in which he blamed the military\u2019s top brass and Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security service at the time, for refusing to wake him to avoid the \u201cmiscalculation\u201d of a military escalation with Hamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t believe Hamas would attack,\u201d he added. \u201cThey knew exactly what I would do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused security officials on Tuesday of intentionally failing to wake him on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[6455,41,6545,16707,496,1411,37,2412,876,33689,40578,7888,39121,15656,10845],"class_list":["post-274539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-channel","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-netanyahu","tag-nova-music-festival","tag-october","tag-palestinian","tag-ronen-bar","tag-sara-netanyahu","tag-yair-golan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117200553436185896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}