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Public disputes concerning Israel, its government, institutions, policies, security, and international relations.
Counts show individual statements. They do not assign an overall position.
2 statements on this page. Dates: November 19, 2023 to September 8, 2026
2 matching statements. Dates: November 19, 2023 to September 8, 2026
2 published statements. Dates: November 19, 2023 to September 8, 2026
1 published statement. Dates: September 8, 2026
1 statement on this page. Dates: September 8, 2026
Role at the time: Israeli opposition politician and former prime minister
Statement summary
Lapid said Netanyahu had received warnings from him, Egypt, and Israeli security leaders and argued that acting on them could have prevented the massacre.
“Three weeks before the massacre, I warned the Prime Minister at a press conference that this was what was going to happen.”
Records the joint opposition statement by Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan, and Avigdor Liberman.
He directly blamed Netanyahu for failing to act on multiple warnings and tied that failure to the attack’s occurrence.
1 published statement. Dates: November 19, 2023
1 statement on this page. Dates: November 19, 2023
Role at the time: Leader of the opposition, Knesset
Statement summary
Opposition leader Yair Lapid joined Netanyahu in condemning a Palestinian Authority foreign ministry statement that blamed Israeli helicopters and the Hannibal Protocol for the killings at the Nova festival.
“Anyone who denies the massacre makes himself an accomplice to the most terrible crime against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
Ynet News report on the Palestinian Authority foreign ministry's claim about the Nova festival and the Hannibal Protocol, with responses from Netanyahu and Yair Lapid.
The reference point is Israeli fire on October 7, 2023, under or in the manner of the Hannibal Directive, that put Israeli captives at risk of being killed by Israeli forces. Lapid rejects the Palestinian Authority's claim that Israel killed the festivalgoers under the Hannibal Protocol as false denial of the massacre, which disputes the characterization. The closest competing label is Defended or excused, but he denies the claim rather than justifying any fire.
