Yair Lapid
Role at the time: Israeli opposition politician and former prime minister
Condemned
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.”
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Records the joint opposition statement by Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett, Yair Golan, and Avigdor Liberman.
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.