Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally and explicitly warned that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major attack roughly 10 days before the October 7 massacre, but dismissed the threat and did not alert his security chiefs, according to a shocking new Haaretz report.

The revelations come from research for an upcoming book Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment, written by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, who writes for Haaretz.

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    24 hours ago

    They probably thought there would be a car bomb or shooting or something, and we got 9/11.

    It’s sickening to consider how many holders of defense stocks and positions of power were likely “pleasantly surprised” by this development.