{"id":640835,"date":"2026-10-09T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640835\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:02:10","slug":"opposition-calls-on-attorney-general-to-take-legal-action-against-pm-likud-attacks-gil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640835\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition calls on Attorney-General to take legal action against PM, Likud attacks Gil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Likud said on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former military secretary, Avi Gil<\/a>, was trying to divert attention from his own failures after telling N12 News and Israel Hayom that Netanyahu’s chief of staff allegedly tried to change the official record of the prime minister’s schedule.<\/p>\n

In a public statement, the party said that on the morning of the October 7 massacre “Avi Gil knew about the approaching attack and chose not to wake the prime minister in time.”<\/p>\n

According to Likud<\/a>, Gil received a text message from the military secretariat’s intelligence officer on warning signs at 3:55 a.m., including SIM cards being activated in the central Gaza camps and Khan Yunis, Hamas<\/a> activating its emergency communications, and unusual activity by Mohammed Deif.<\/p>\n

“Avi Gil did nothing with the information,” Likud said.\"FormerFormer military secretary Avi Gil. (credit: YONATAN SINDEL\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n

According to Gil’s interview, an intelligence assistant received an alert about a message detailing suspicious actions near the Gaza border but decided not to wake the military secretary or the prime minister, believing the situation was not urgent enough.<\/p>\n

Gil only woken up at 6:12 to receive information, according to interview<\/p>\n

Gil said he was woken at 6:12 a.m. by a call from the office of former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief Ronen Bar, and was briefed on information about the SIM cards and reports of Hamas operatives moving underground only upon calling Bar on a secure line at 6:17 a.m.<\/p>\n

Gil said he then called Netanyahu twice, once at 6:29 a.m., waking him up and telling him “Hamas has launched extensive fire, a large-scale surprise attack. I am gathering information and will call you as soon as possible,” and a second time at 6:40 a.m., telling him “We are at war.”<\/p>\n

Months later, in January, a stenographer told Gil she had been instructed to change the time of the 6:40 a.m. phone call to 6:29 on the transcript, according to Gil.\"TheThe aftermath of Hamas’s Nova music festival massacre in Re’im, southern Israel, on October 7, 2023. Picture taken November 2, 2023 (credit: Arie Leib Abrams\/Flash90)<\/p>\n

Netanyahu responded to the interview in a post on his X\/Twitter account in which he wrote “The left’s campaign of lies will never defeat the truth,” on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

Eisenkot, Liberman, Golan call on A-G to pursue legal action<\/p>\n

The Yashar! party, led by Gadi Eisenkot<\/a>, called on Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara to pursue legal action over suspicions that Netanyahu gave the state comptroller and the public false and distorted information about the failures surrounding October 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The party cited reporting and statements that it said supported the allegations, \u201cas revealed by journalist Ronen Bergman\u2019s investigation in Yedioth Ahronoth and statements by Maj.-Gen. (res.) Avi Gil, who served as Netanyahu\u2019s military secretary, in Israel Hayom and on Channel 12 News.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement also accused Netanyahu of presenting a partial and distorted account of security documents from before the massacre. It alleged that he omitted significant warnings and intelligence assessments about Hamas\u2019s growing strength, its closer ties to the Iranian axis, and the danger of escalation with Israel.<\/p>\n

In his interview, Gil stated that there are discrepancies between what the public has been told and what actually happened, calling for the formation of a state commission of inquiry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe document submitted to the state comptroller does not reflect what really happened. It is part of the truth, but not the whole truth,\u201d Gil had said.<\/p>\n

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman criticized Netanyahu over the allegations: \u201cI call on the attorney-general to order an immediate investigation into the prime minister and his aides on charges of treason and conspiracy. I call on the IDF chief of staff to prevent any attempt to use the IDF for political purposes, solely to change the public agenda just before the elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Democrats chairman Yair Golan also sharply criticized the prime minister: \u201cThis is an earthquake. The testimony of Maj.-Gen. (res.) Avi Gil is among the most serious ever heard in Israel. Netanyahu\u2019s culpability and responsibility for the massacre of 1,200 people and the abduction of 251 people have never been clearer. Netanyahu committed a grave crime against the residents of the Gaza border communities, survivors of captivity, and the entire people of Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI call on the attorney-general to order a comprehensive criminal investigation into these suspicions, including an examination of the involvement and responsibility of everyone in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, up to the most senior level. The preservation of all original recordings, minutes, and documents must be ensured immediately. Netanyahu must account for the decisions made before the massacre and any possible attempt to obstruct the examination of responsibility afterward,” Golan said.<\/p>\n

Oct 7 council says interview just ‘tip of the iceberg’<\/p>\n

The leader of the October 7 council also responded to Gil’s interview, saying \u201cTonight, it is no longer possible to claim they did not know. Maj.-Gen. (res.) Avi Gil, who sat alongside Netanyahu in the most confidential meetings and served as his military secretary, is speaking out openly and confirming in his own voice what we have revealed in recent days. And tonight, we say clearly and unequivocally, this is only the tip of the iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corinne Baum and Miriam Sela-Eitam contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Likud said on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former military secretary, Avi Gil, was trying to divert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24405,49,13135,955,50,51,85,46,50131,21141,240933,43,112344,73,58,22171,268648,110220],"class_list":["post-640835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-avigdor-liberman","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-democrats","tag-gadi-eisenkot","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-khan-yunis","tag-likud","tag-mohammed-deif","tag-news","tag-october-7-commission-of-inquiry","tag-shin-bet","tag-the-october-7-massacre","tag-yair-golan","tag-yashar-party","tag-yisrael-beytenu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640835","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=640835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}