Netanyahu sues Haaretz over report of pre-October 7 UAE warning

Three years after the deadliest attack in Israeli history, the question of what was known beforehand — and by whom — has entered the courts. Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a lawsuit against Haaretz over its claim that the UAE's Mohammed bin Zayed warned him of an impending Hamas offensive ten days before October 7, 2023, a warning Netanyahu says never occurred. The dispute arrives as Netanyahu faces elections and declining polls, placing the weight of 1,195 deaths and a war that has claimed tens of thousands of lives on the contested ground of a single phone call that may or may not have hap