Netanyahu denies reports he hid the details of the medicine to hostages arrangement from Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, pulling out what he says is a memo by Mossad chief David Barnea laying out the details of the deal, which was sent to Gallant’s office.
Netanyahu does not show the document to the cameras.
He also denies that he allowed the medicine to be delivered without a security check, insisting that the minute he heard of that possibility, he ordered the shipments to be checked “whether or not Hamas accepts that.”
“I took responsibility,” he says.
Netanyahu says he “bypassed” the Red Cross — “because the Red Cross did not cooperate with our efforts to get the medicines in” — and that Qatar promised that the medicine would reach “every last hostage that needs it, and I expect them to meet their commitment.”
Netanyahu admits that the Qatari commitment to deliver medicine to hostages is the only way Israel has to verify their delivery, but that Israel will know “very soon” if they don’t meet their commitment.
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