In a preview of an upcoming book titled “Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment,” Haaretz reports that in the leadup to the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas that left hundreds of Israelis dead and led to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza, dictator Benjamin Netanyahu received multiple warnings from different sources including UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and CIA Director William J Burns that Hamas was planning a major assault, warnings that Netanyahu did not then share with his military leaders. The source was none other than Hamas’s leader himself.
“Convey a message that I am preparing the mother of all surprises. A terrifying operation. Something extraordinary. Please convey to the Israelis what I am saying word for word,” the now-dead Hamas chieftain Yahyah Sinwar told an advisor close to Bin Zayed during a meeting in September 2023.