PM rejects Egyptian warning claim: "Recycled lies"
The Prime Minister's Office strongly rejects the claims in The Atlantic's investigation that Egypt warned Israel before the October 7 massacre. The office denies any connection between Netanyahu and the head of Egyptian intelligence and defines the publication as recycled lies.
The Prime Minister's Office this evening (Saturday) strongly rejects the claims published in The Atlantic magazine's investigation, according to which Egypt warned Israel before the October 7 massacre of a significant Hamas attack. The office defined the publication as a "false claim" and stated that it is a recycling of a version already denied in the past. The investigation claimed that Abbas Kamel, then head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service, secretly arrived in Israel on September 26, 2023, 11 days before the massacre, and warned that Hamas was preparing a significant attack. However, according to the investigation itself, Kamel did not provide a date for the attack nor present concrete information about its nature. The Prime Minister's Office emphasizes that Egypt itself denied after the massacre that it had given Israel an early warning, and that Prime Minister Netanyahu did not meet or speak with Abbas Kamel. Tzachi Hanegbi, who served at the time as head of the National Security Council, also rejected the version. The office concluded with a sharp attack: "Recycled lies will not become truth even if repeated over and over again."