According to the newspaper, his assistants are subject to… Netanyahu To investigate accusations of leaking, falsifying records and intimidation, while the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office denies these allegations.
On the morning of the day the movement was launched agitation Her attack on Israel Last year, a senior Israeli general called the prime minister to tell him that hundreds of militants appeared ready to launch an attack from the Gaza Strip, according to the New York Times.
Informed officials told the newspaper that the prime minister’s aides are under investigation over changing details about that call in the official record of Netanyahu’s activities that day.
The investigation seeks to reveal whether Netanyahu had actually received information about the Hamas attack on October 7 before it occurred, which could be decisive in his political future.
Netanyahu’s aides were charged with several counts, including leaking secret military documents, altering official transcripts of the prime minister’s conversations, and intimidating people who had access to those records.
The case increases the impression that Netanyahu and his team used illegal means to improve the prime minister’s image, at the expense of the truth, national security, or both, while Netanyahu and his office deny the accusations.
According to the investigation, a general named Gil told the prime minister on the morning of October 7 that hundreds of Hamas members were behaving in a way that suggested they were about to launch an attack on Israel, a call that was said to have been changed in official transcripts, informed officials told The New York Times. “.
Intimidation issue
According to officials, the case of falsifying records has another part, which is that one of Netanyahu’s aides “intimidated” an army officer who controlled access to phone records.
The officer’s intimidation came after he was filmed from a security camera installed in the Prime Minister’s headquarters, committing an act that might cause him personal embarrassment.
Then one of Netanyahu’s senior aides approached this officer and told him that he had obtained the embarrassing video, and this is the same person accused of issuing an order to tamper with Netanyahu’s conversation records, indicating that he had been subjected to some kind of intimidation and blackmail, which is indeed what the officer told his commanders.
Leaking sensitive documents
Another charge against Netanyahu’s aides is that he secretly provided a sensitive document to a foreign news organization, which is a memo supposedly written by and obtained by a Hamas officer. Israeli army Later, it was leaked to the German newspaper “Bild”.
According to the newspaper, the document showed that Hamas sought to manipulate families Hostages To persuade Netanyahu to concede Truce talks And agreeing to terms less favorable to Israel.
Netanyahu cited the Bild newspaper report to claim that Hamas sought to “sow discord among us and use psychological warfare against the families of the hostages.”
The officials said investigators are examining whether Netanyahu is citing a document leaked by his aides, but there is no indication that Netanyahu himself is under investigation or has been questioned.
One of the Prime Minister’s aides was arrested Eli FeldsteinAnd 4 officers were charged with helping the newspaper obtain the document.
The Jewish Chronicle newspaper also published its headquarters London At the beginning of last September, a report reinforced the same story, but officials believe that this information is completely fabricated.
These allegations reinforce the impression that Netanyahu used illegal means to divert attention from his failures, and that his aides prioritized his political survival at the expense of Israel’s interests.
Current information and investigations also indicate that the Prime Minister refused to resign, despite his trial on charges of bribery and fraud, which makes him care more about his fate than the stability of the country, according to the New York Times.
