This happened a day after his wife claimed that an opposition figure had prior knowledge of the attack.
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B. Netanyahu, approaching tense elections, faced sharp criticism in national debates over who is responsible for the security failures that turned into a disaster on October 7, 2023.
The Prime Minister had previously stated that security officials decided not to wake him that morning. He claimed that the attack could have been contained if he had intervened earlier, but only in recent days has he begun to assert that such inaction was deliberate.
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“Why didn’t they wake me? Because they knew that as Prime Minister of Israel, I would have immediately ordered the entire army to be on alert, raising all the cities (on the Gaza Strip border) (…) It is so obvious that all this could have been done. It was hidden from the public,” the Prime Minister said during a live interview on the social network Instagram.
