Israel’s Netanyahu says wasn’t shown intel of planned Hamas attack

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a jab at his intelligence chiefs, saying they never warned him Hamas was planning its wide-scale attack on October 7 and causing a political uproar and a rift within his war cabinet, Reuters reports.

Netanyahu, who has drawn public ire for not taking responsibility over the intelligence and operational failures surrounding Hamas’ attack, later erased the remarks posted on social media platform X.

While top officials — from the heads of the military and the Shin Bet domestic spy service to his finance minister — have all acknowledged their failures, Netanyahu has not.

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