Condemned
“Three weeks before the massacre, I warned the Prime Minister at a press conference that this was what was going to happen.”
Lapid said Netanyahu had received warnings from him, Egypt, and Israeli security leaders and argued that acting on them could have prevented the massacre.
- Speaker
- Yair Lapid
- Capacity
- Israeli opposition politician and former prime minister
- Observed
- September 9, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Targets
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Classification rationale
- He directly blamed Netanyahu for failing to act on multiple warnings and tied that failure to the attack’s occurrence.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Lapid responded after publication of the report alleging a direct warning from the UAE president.
After the quotation
He broadened the allegation beyond the UAE report by citing warnings he said came from domestic and Egyptian sources.
Evidence
Complete source record
September 8, 2026 live updates: Opposition chiefs respond to alleged UAE warning (opens in a new tab)3:20 pm update
Records the joint opposition statement by Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan, and Avigdor Liberman.