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Netanyahu said to block meetings between US envoy with Shin Bet head, IDF intel chief
Barbara Leaf, US assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, speaks to reporters at a media roundtable in Kuwait City on October 19, 2022. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP/ File)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blocked two senior Israeli officials from meeting with a senior US envoy, in a bid to signal his ire with the Biden administration, Channel 12 reports.
Barbara Leaf, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, was blocked from meeting with Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar and IDF military intelligence chief Maj. Gen Aharon Haliva, the report says citing two Israeli sources.
The report says the move was an attempt by Netanyahu to send a signal to the White House over the deepening criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza and calls seen as targeting Netanyahu.
