Yair Lapid on October 7 Attacks

Statements and actions by Yair Lapid on this topic.

Public disputes concerning the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, including prior warnings, security decisions, and subsequent accounts of responsibility.

How we classify topics

Condemned1Statements: September 8, 2026. Not selected. Activate to add.Defended or excused0No statements. Not selected. Activate to add.Challenged the characterization0No statements. Not selected. Activate to add.Minimized0No statements. Not selected. Activate to add.Mixed or conditional0No statements. Not selected. Activate to add.Explicitly stayed out0No statements. Not selected. Activate to add.

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Statement history

1 statement on this page. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 matching statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 published statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

Condemned

1 published statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 statement on this page. Dates: September 8, 2026

Yair Lapid

Role at the time: Israeli opposition politician and former prime minister

September 8, 2026Condemned

Responding to

Was Netanyahu warned by the UAE about a major Hamas operation before October 7?

"Three weeks before the massacre, I warned the Prime Minister at a press conference that this was what was going to happen."

Why we used this label

He directly blamed Netanyahu for failing to act on multiple warnings and tied that failure to the attack’s occurrence.

September 8, 2026 live updates: Opposition chiefs respond to alleged UAE warning

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3:20 pm update

Records the joint opposition statement by Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan, and Avigdor Liberman.

Read statement Was Netanyahu warned by the UAE about a major Hamas operation before October 7?