Sinwar warned earthquake before October 7
10 sources · updated 6 days ago
Summary
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What happened
- The Atlantic reported that Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel flew secretly to Israel on September 26, 2023 — 11 days before the Hamas attack — and warned that Hamas appeared to be mobilizing for a major assault, urging economic concessions to Gaza.
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- According to the report, the Egyptian plane sat at Ben Gurion Airport for 67 minutes, Kamel gave no date or operational detail, and it is still unclear which Israeli officials met him.
- Separately, The New York Times said it confirmed that UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed phoned Netanyahu with a warning of a major Hamas attack, backing an earlier Haaretz report that Netanyahu had denied while threatening to sue the paper.
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- Israeli outlets also reported an account from a former Palestinian Authority minister and Fatah figure who said Yahya Sinwar passed Israel a message weeks earlier warning of a coming "earthquake".
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- Netanyahu's office denied receiving Egyptian warnings and former national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi denied that Kamel visited at all, as the dispute feeds demands, led by Gadi Eisenkot, for an independent state commission of inquiry that Netanyahu has resisted.
Why it matters
Who knew what before October 7, and whether the prime minister passed warnings to his security chiefs, has become a central question in Israeli politics ahead of elections and in the fight over what kind of inquiry will examine the failure.PBS
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Where coverage differs
- Israeli outlets varied in emphasis: Haaretz foregrounded its own earlier exposé of the Emirati phone call and Netanyahu's legal threats against it, Ynet led with the flight details and the "messenger was the message" assessment, and the Times of Israel highlighted reporting that Netanyahu feared pre-emptive strikes in Gaza would derail Saudi normalization talks.
- Casualty context was handled differently: Ynet attributed Gaza's death toll to the Hamas-run health ministry, while Arab News cited the Gaza health ministry without that description.
- International outlets placed the story in the frame of Netanyahu's accountability and the missing 9/11-style commission, with PBS airing the Atlantic reporter directly and the New York Times focusing on the Emirati leader's call.
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