Bennett confirms Netanyahu was warned by UAE of Sinwar threat before Oct. 7

Yair Lapid similarly scrutinized Netanyahu’s failure to heed the warning and claimed that others, including Egypt and the Shin Bet, had also attempted to warn the prime minister of Hamas’s threat.

Former prime minister and B’Yachad party head Naftali Bennett confirmed a Tuesday Haaretz report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned that Hamas was planning an attack against Israel days before the October 7 massacre.

“The report this morning stating that Netanyahu was warned ten days before the October 7 massacre about Sinwar's intentions - true,” Bennett affirmed in a statement released on X/Twitter.

Bennett decried Netanyahu’s reaction to the warning, claiming that Netanyahu “did not warn the heads of the security establishment, did not prepare Israel for the attack, and did not convene the cabinet.”

He added that he believes Netanyahu “bears personal and direct responsibility for the failure that led to the deaths of thousands of Israelis on his watch.” 

Lapid claims he tried to warn Netanyahu of Hamas threat

Yair Lapid similarly scrutinized Netanyahu’s failure to heed the warning and claimed that he and others had also attempted to warn the prime minister of Hamas’s threat.

“Three weeks before the massacre, I warned the Prime Minister at a press conference that this was what was going to happen,” Lapid said, adding that “the Egyptians say they warned him. The Chief of Staff, the head of the Shin Bet, the head of Military Intelligence - all of them warned him.”

Lapid claimed that if Netanyahu had acted after allegedly receiving multiple warnings, “the massacre would have been prevented.”

Netanyahu 'terrified' of taking responsibility for October 7, Eisenkot says

Former IDF chief of staff and Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot stated that the latest report added to what he described as mounting evidence of Netanyahu's responsibility for the failures preceding the attack.

"More and more signs indicate: Netanyahu led Israel blindly into the October 7 failure," Eisenkot said.

"According to the report this morning, he received an explicit warning, days before the massacre, from the president of the United Arab Emirates regarding Sinwar's intentions, but did not update the heads of the defense establishment. Who didn't wake whom up?"

Eisenkot accused Netanyahu's circle of promoting conspiracy theories and seeking to shift responsibility for events in the hours before the massacre.

"Those around him are echoing the pathetic conspiracy and betrayal theory, inventing the most ridiculous sentence a leader could cling to, 'They didn't wake me up,' because of two facts: He knows the truth. He is terrified of it and is trying to escape responsibility.

Yashar MK Chili Tropper focused on the claim that the alleged warning was not passed to the security establishment.

"For a week now, Netanyahu has been campaigning on the claim that they didn't wake him up," Tropper said.

"It is difficult to know how events would have developed if Netanyahu had acted and the security establishment had received the information," he stated.

"What is clear is that thousands of bereaved families woke up this morning with the gut-wrenching feeling that perhaps the lives of their loved ones could have been saved, alongside the clear knowledge that those responsible for their security failed completely."