DI has documented statements by Chili Tropper on Israel, October 7 Attacks, and Political Violence. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Tropper declined to claim certainty about the counterfactual outcome while emphasizing the possibility that lives could have been saved if the alleged warning had been shared.
“It is difficult to know how events would have developed if Netanyahu had acted and the security establishment had received the information.”
Haaretz reported that the UAE president warned Benjamin Netanyahu of a major Hamas operation before October 7, 2023. The New York Times, citing anonymous sources, reports that the call occurred and the warning did not reach security chiefs. Netanyahu denies receiving it.
