‘You were slow to respond to Oct 7 attack’ – Israeli PM Netanyahu faces backlash 

Israeli absorption has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being dilatory to respond to alerts from Israel’s information apparatus of Hamas’ 7 October attack.

According to Israel’s Channel 12, Netanyahu was alerted to the onslaught astatine 6.29 am.

The Prime Minister, however, was said to person failed to interaction Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, betwixt past and arriving astatine the Kirya, Israel’s cardinal subject hub, astatine 9 am.

The study said that though Netanyahu’s Office published diaries marking his accomplishment astatine 9, his existent accomplishment clip was astatine 9.30.

The Prime Minister arsenic blamed Israel’s information chiefs for not waking him up to stock quality of a Hamas attack.

He stated that helium would person instantly mobilised Israel’s military, contempt the Channel 12 study saying helium was woken up astatine 6.29.

Ahead of Israel’s October election, determination person been accusations and recriminations betwixt the authorities and the absorption implicit work for preventing the October 7 2023 Hamas attack.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has persistently dismissed calls for a authorities committee of inquir...