{"id":609951,"date":"2026-09-08T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609951\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:06:11","slug":"uae-warned-benjamin-netanyahu-over-major-hamas-attack-days-before-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609951\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE warned Benjamin Netanyahu over major Hamas attack days before October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAE President Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major operation against Israel<\/a> days before the October 7 massacre, a Haaretz investigation published Tuesday said.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu reportedly dismissed the warning despite MBZ urging him to take the threat seriously, the report said, citing three senior foreign sources familiar with the contents of the conversation.<\/p>\n

During a 45-minute conversation held 10 days before the massacre, MBZ reportedly warned Netanyahu that then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar<\/a> was planning a major operation against Israel. The United Arab Emirates leader expressed concern that an attack could lead to significant bloodshed, destabilize the region, and undermine the Abraham Accords, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The prime minister reportedly responded that he believed Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank and reassured the UAE president that Israel was prepared for any scenario.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu failed to mention the warning in subsequent security briefings leading up to October 7, with both former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Ronen Bar and IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi telling Haaretz that they had not been informed of the warning delivered by the UAE president.<\/p>\n

\"PrimePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of the UAE Sheikh bin Zayed Al Nahyan. (credit: .Abdulla Al Neyadi \/ UAE Presidential Court\/Handout, ILLUSTRATIVE)<\/p>\n

The report also cited a close adviser to MBZ, who said the warning originated in contacts involving a Palestinian intermediary with ties to both Hamas and Israeli security officials.<\/p>\n

The investigation said that in September 2023, Sinwar had warned through the intermediary that he was preparing a \u201czilzal,\u201d or earthquake, and later described what he was planning as \u201cthe mother of all surprises\u201d and \u201ca terrifying operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The message was ultimately relayed to the UAE leadership and, on September 15, to the Shin Bet. Bar briefed Netanyahu on Sinwar\u2019s warning, after which senior defense officials held a security assessment two days later.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu failed to respond to Emirati, Egyptian warning before Oct. 7<\/p>\n

At that meeting, Bar reportedly warned that Israel was \u201con a collision course\u201d and recommended either a powerful offensive step or stronger defensive measures in Gaza and the West Bank ahead of the Jewish holidays, but no decisions were made at the end of the discussion.<\/p>\n

After the UAE leadership concluded that Israel had not adequately responded to the information, MBZ decided to contact Netanyahu directly, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The investigation also said Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel contacted Netanyahu around the same period and warned of \u201csomething unusual, a terrifying operation\u201d being planned by Hamas. Netanyahu reportedly responded that Israel was in control of the situation in Gaza and was concentrating its attention and troop deployments on the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu did not mention either of the warning calls during a subsequent October 1 discussion on Gaza and Hamas, the report said. A senior Shin Bet official quoted in the investigation said knowledge of the warnings could potentially have changed how security officials interpreted Sinwar\u2019s earlier statements and withdrawal from negotiations.<\/p>\n

Haaretz said MBZ did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister\u2019s Office called the report \u201can absolute lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu did not speak with the president of the United Arab Emirates during the period in question and did not receive any warning from him,\u201d it said in response.<\/p>\n

Bennett backs report, says UAE, Egypt warnings to Netanyahu were true<\/p>\n

Following the report, former prime minister and head of B\u2019Yachad Naftali Bennett<\/a> told 103FM he \u201cknew for a fact the report is true.\u201d<\/p>\n

MBZ \u201cwarned Netanyahu that Sinwar was planning an operation. Abbas Kamel, the head of Egyptian General Intelligence, also warned Netanyahu days before the massacre that a major operation was being planned,\u201d Bennett said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about my relationship with anyone. I\u2019m telling you that I know this fact is true.<\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu led us blindly straight into this terrible disaster. He was so deeply immersed in his conception that Hamas was an asset, and despite receiving explicit warnings, he did nothing,\u201d the former prime minister said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNetanyahu bears direct responsibility for this disaster, not only ministerial responsibility by virtue of being prime minister, but direct responsibility because he built up Hamas for 15 years and did nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked how he would have acted had he been in Netanyahu\u2019s position in the fall of 2023, Bennett said, \u201cIn a similar situation, if I had received a quarter of a warning when I was prime minister, I would have raced to the South. That\u2019s what I always do: meet the commanders and the observation soldiers, convene the IDF chief of staff and the Shin Bet chief, increase alertness and defenses, and prepare for offensive action if necessary. I would have done everything to protect the lives of the residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA view of homes destroyed and burned in the Hamas October 7, 2023 massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza border, August 5, 2026 (credit: Tsafrir Abayov\/Flash90)Eisenkot: Netanyahu led Israel blindly into the October 7 failure<\/p>\n

Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the Yashar Party, also responded to the report, arguing that it only added to evidence that the prime minister had failed to act on warnings before the massacre.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore and more signs indicate that Netanyahu led Israel blindly into the October 7 failure,\u201d Eisenkot said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the report this morning, he received an explicit warning, days before the massacre<\/a>, from the president of the United Arab Emirates regarding Sinwar\u2019s intentions, but did not update the heads of the defense establishment. Who failed to wake whom up?<\/p>\n

\u201cThose around him are echoing the pathetic conspiracy and betrayal theory, inventing the most ridiculous sentence a leader could cling to, \u2018They didn\u2019t wake me up,\u2019 because of two facts: He knows the truth; He is terrified of it and is trying to escape responsibility. Netanyahu received dozens of warnings ahead of October 7 and ignored them all. He is unfit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eisenkot said his party would seek to establish a state commission of inquiry after the formation of the next government.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmediately upon the formation of the next government, we will establish a state commission of inquiry that will investigate the previous decade, clarify what Netanyahu knew and did not know, get to the truth, and prevent the next disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UAE President Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,276270,50,51,85,46,206374,953,43,58,1078,79,44781],"class_list":["post-609951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-egypt-army","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mohammed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-uae","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-yahya-sinwar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}