Tarek Chouiref<\/p>\n
14 October 2026\u2022Update: 14 October 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that Egypt\u2019s then-intelligence chief visited Israel shortly before the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas after repeatedly dismissing reports that Cairo had warned him of an impending assault, Israel\u2019s Haaretz daily reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 14, Netanyahu confirmed that Abbas Kamel had spent 59 minutes in the country but claimed he did not know which Israeli official had met with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to know who he met with,\u201d Netanyahu said, invoking the \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/p>\n
He denied meeting or speaking with Kamel, saying he was attending a memorial ceremony for Israeli soldiers at the time.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu had previously dismissed reports that Kamel warned him of an impending Hamas attack as \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Atlantic reported in late September that Kamel traveled to Israel on Sept. 26, 2023, 11 days before the attack, to warn that Hamas was preparing a major assault.<\/p>\n
Citing Israeli, Egyptian, Arab, US and European officials briefed on the visit, the magazine said Kamel urged Israel to offer economic concessions to Hamas to avert a confrontation. It said the identity of the Israeli official he met remained unclear.<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal also reported last month that Kamel had called Netanyahu days before the attack, following two earlier Egyptian warnings that went unheeded.<\/p>\n
Separately, The New York Times reported in September that United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had warned Netanyahu of a possible major Hamas attack, but the Israeli prime minister failed to relay the warning to his security chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarek Chouiref 14 October 2026\u2022Update: 14 October 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that Egypt\u2019s then-intelligence chief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-645735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645735","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=645735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}