Netanyahu decries new police probe as ‘hunting expedition against the Prime Minister’s Office’

As police announce a second investigation with reported ties to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his office calls it “an unprecedented hunting expedition against the Prime Minister’s Office in the midst of a war.”

“After a year with a deluge of criminal leaks from cabinet and hostage discussions — which provided valuable intelligence to our enemies — the only two investigations that were opened were directed against the Prime Minister’s Office and not against the serial leakers, none of whom were investigated, and who caused tremendous damage to the abductees and Israel’s security,” his office continues.

Earlier today, a judge allowed the release of the fact that the police’s Lahav 433 investigation unit “is conducting a criminal probe related to incidents from the start of the war, including several open investigations.” Lahav 433 investigates serious crimes including public corruption.

The Ynet news site says the news is related to reports earlier in the year that Netanyahu had been attempting to keep his conversations regarding the management of the war in Gaza untraceable.

“As with the other attempts to inflate accusations against the prime minister and his entourage, in this matter too the mountain will turn out to be not even a molehill,” Netanyahu’s office says, “but will certainly lead to difficult questions about unprecedented and unfounded selective enforcement of the law.”