The Prime Minister’s Office firmly denies a TV report that the Shin Bet security agency was unable to reach PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff shortly before Hamas launched its attack on October 7.
Channel 13 reports that the Shin Bet was trying to reach Tzachi Braverman regarding unusual activity in Gaza, including indications of Israeli SIM cards activated by Hamas forces, at 5 a.m., less than two hours before the start of Hamas’s deadly onslaught on southern Israeli communities.
“It absolutely did not happen,” says the PMO.
“As a general rule, an intelligence update from the Shin Bet to the prime minister goes through the prime minister’s military secretary,” continues the statement.
“In the hours before the October 7th massacre, the chief of staff did not receive any phone calls from anyone.”
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