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    "parsed_content": "AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTNetanyahu Is Said to Have Been Warned About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel\u2019s security establishment, Israeli officials said.Listen \u00b7 8:24 min Share full articlePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv this month.Credit...Ariel Schalit\/Associated PressBy Adam RasgonMark Mazzetti and Ronen BergmanSept. 25, 2026Updated 1:15 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google As Israelis prepare to vote next month, the question of who bears responsibility for failing to prevent the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023 has become a dominant issue in one of Israel\u2019s most consequential campaigns in history.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seeking an unprecedented seventh term, has placed the blame on national security officials, while his critics have said he must personally answer for the failures. When Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, reported earlier this month that Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, the president of the United Arab Emirates, had given Mr. Netanyahu a secret warning that Hamas was planning a major attack, the question took on even greater urgency.Mr. Netanyahu has denied the report.But a person who said they had spoken with Sheikh Mohammed and another person who said they had been briefed by someone on the call between the two leaders told The New York Times that the Emirati leader had secretly reported to Mr. Netanyahu that Hamas was considering a major attack.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe warning from the Emirati leader, however, never reached the leaders of Israel\u2019s security establishment, according to five former senior Israeli officials. Mr. Netanyahu gathered his security chiefs days later, on Oct. 1, 2023, for a meeting about the situation in the Gaza Strip, and never mentioned the warning, according to minutes of the meeting reviewed by The Times.ImageSheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed, the president of the United Arab Emirates, in Berlin this month. Credit...Omer Messinger\/Getty ImagesInstead, he told them that the goal should be to maintain calm in Gaza, and he pushed back when some security officials said that Israel should consider military strikes against senior Hamas leaders in Gaza who were overseeing attacks against Israelis in the West Bank, the minutes show.At the meeting, details of which have not been previously reported, Mr. Netanyahu said that any Israeli action in Gaza might sabotage the prospect of Saudi Arabia establishing diplomatic relations with Israel \u2014 a deal the Israeli prime minister believed was imminent.Sign up for Your Places: Global Update. All the latest news for any part of the world you select. Get it sent to your inbox.Sheikh Mohammed had called Mr. Netanyahu in late September to tell him that, based on information he had received, Hamas was planning to launch an attack, according to the two people who said they had spoken with someone on the call. One of those people said the information was not specific about whether Hamas was planning to launch rockets into Israel or preparing for a ground invasion over the border. The original sources of the intelligence that Sheikh Mohammed passed to Mr. Netanyahu are unclear, and it is also unclear whether other issues were discussed on their call.The warning, though vague, proved to be correct. Days later, thousands of Hamas fighters and their allies launched an invasion over the Gaza border into southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking some 250 more hostage in the deadliest attack on Israel in the country\u2019s history.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTImageIsraeli soldiers checked body bags while collecting the remains of people killed at Kfar Azza, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza, during the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.Credit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York TimesAfter the Haaretz report, Mr. Netanyahu denied in a statement that he had ever received a phone call warning from Sheikh Mohammed and said that if any intelligence came from the Emiratis it was passed to Israel through intelligence channels.The Emirati foreign ministry and Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s office did not respond to requests for comment.But Sheikh Mohammed mentioned his September 2023 phone call with Mr. Netanyahu months later in a discussion with William Burns, the C.I.A. director at the time, according to a person familiar with that discussion. Sheikh Mohammed told Mr. Burns that, during the phone call, he had spoken to Mr. Netanyahu about a looming threat of violence in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip carried out by Hamas.All of the people The New York Times spoke to insisted on anonymity to divulge details of sensitive discussions.Mr. Netanyahu was not the only Israeli leader to overlook warning signs in the lead-up to the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Israeli security leaders repeatedly downplayed other signs that Hamas was gearing up for an assault, which were abundant at the time.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Israeli military even obtained a Hamas battle plan in 2022, but military leaders dismissed it as unrealistic. The plan, which the military gave the code name \u201cJericho Wall,\u201d turned out to be the blueprint for the Oct. 7 attacks.In the years before the attacks, Israeli military and intelligence officials had concluded that Hamas was incapable of carrying out a major attack on Israel, and that Yahya Sinwar, the group\u2019s leader in the Gaza Strip, was more interested in governing the enclave than fighting another war with Israel.ImageYahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in April 2023. He was killed by Israeli forces in 2024.Credit...Samar Abu Elouf for The New York TimesMr. Netanyahu thought that Israel had deterred Hamas from waging war, according to an Israeli state ombudsman report about government decision-making before the October attack. He instructed Israeli military and intelligence bodies to pursue a policy of \u201cpostponing conflicts\u201d and \u201cpreserving Hamas as an effective, restrained, and restraining governing authority,\u201d the report said.The phone call and the warning from Sheikh Mohammed are not mentioned in any of the internal investigations conducted by the military, intelligence agencies or other entities into the causes of the severe Israeli security failures leading up to and including Oct. 7, according to the five former senior Israeli officials. The five officials were involved in the assessments, which have not been released in full.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLate next month, Israelis will vote in their first national election since the Oct. 7 attacks, and the race for parliamentary seats in the highly polarized country is shaping to be extremely tight. Not only is Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s political future at stake, many Israelis see the election as fateful for the future of their shaken country.The Haaretz report punched a hole in Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s argument that Israel\u2019s military and intelligence services were to blame for the intelligence failures leading to the Oct. 7 attacks. He and his allies have blocked efforts by Israeli lawmakers to set up a state commission of inquiry into the security breakdowns that preceded the attacks, saying it would not uncover the truth.ImageMr. Netanyahu with his wife, Sara, and members of the Likud party at an event in Tel Aviv last week.Credit...Jack Guez\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty ImagesEarlier this month, Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s opponents in the campaign issued a joint statement saying that the Haaretz report about the September 2023 warning \u201cjoins a series of revelations concerning Netanyahu\u2019s failures\u201d and \u201conce again underscores why Netanyahu is fighting for his life \u2014 to thwart the establishment of a state commission of inquiry and to thwart revealing the truth to the Israeli public.\u201dThe call from Sheikh Mohammed to Mr. Netanyahu was a sign of the close security ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which have grown deeper over the years. In 2020, Israel and the Emirates agreed to normalize relations, in a deal known as the Abraham Accords. The arrangement strengthened economic, political and security relations between the two nations, which share intelligence and view Islamist groups, including Hamas, with hostility.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTRelations between Israel and the Emirates soured after the Oct. 7 attack and Israel\u2019s ensuing war with Hamas, which killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, left much of Gaza in ruins and created a humanitarian crisis. Mr. Netanyahu and his Emirati counterparts took divergent views on the administration of Gaza and potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank.In the years before the Oct. 7 attack, Mr. Sinwar, the Hamas leader, orchestrated a sophisticated campaign of deception that convinced Israeli politicians, generals and intelligence officials that Hamas had been deterred from waging war against Israel and was focused instead on governance.Mr. Netanyahu was also eager for calm in Gaza, as it allowed him to focus on Iran and its proxy militia in Lebanon, Hezbollah, which he considered to be far greater threats than Hamas.Natan Odenheimer contributed reporting to this article.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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