Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he has instructed his lawyers to sue the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” and its journalist Shlomi Eldar, accusing them of defamation. According to what the newspaper reported, Netanyahu was warned of Hamas’ intentions by the president of the United Arab Emirates a few days before the attack on October 7, 2023, but did nothing to prevent the massacre.
הנדון: שקרים תוצרת “הארץ”
ראש הממשלה הנחה את עורכי דינו להגיש תביעת דיבה נגד עיתון השמאל ״הארץ״, שלומי אלדר וגורמים נוספים שהעלילו עלילה שקרית על ראש הממשלה שלא הייתה ולא נבראה.
בניגוד לנטען, מתחילת חודש ספטמבר ועד ה-7 באוקטובר לא התקיימה שום שיחה בין ראש הממשלה לנשיא איחוד…
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 9, 2026
A reconstruction that the Israeli prime minister angrily sends back to the sender. For Netanyahu, this whole affair “is an infamous slander, with clear implications, in the context of the electoral campaign of the left (Haaretz is a progressive newspaper, ed.), and there will be other false slanders of this type”.
The prime minister reiterates that there was no telephone call between him and the president of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, between the beginning of September 2023 and 7 October 2023. And to support his version he cites the checks conducted by his office and other structures.
“The Prime Minister’s Office, the National Security Council and the Military Secretariat carefully examined the diary of the Prime Minister’s conversations in those days – and did not find any trace of it. In general, diplomatic conversations between the Prime Minister and the President of the Emirates take place exclusively at the Prime Minister’s Office via the representative of the Emirates who comes to the office with a special encrypted device. All these conversations are documented.”
“Eldar himself – continues the Israeli prime minister – declared last night in an interview with Channel 12 that the conversation he claims took place, and in which he claims that a warning was given to the prime minister, took place in this way. However, from an in-depth investigation not only in the diary of the prime minister’s conversations, but also in the documentation of the visits to the prime minister’s office in that period, there is no evidence of any visit by the representative of the Emirates”.
Finally, the prime minister adds that “there is no possibility of entering the prime minister’s office without documentation or registration carried out by the security forces”.