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September 16, 2026
from
RT Website
Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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/ Kevin Dietsch
Families of those killed
say years
of preserving the Palestinian group
and
ignoring warnings
helped
create the conditions for the massacre...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused
of,
deliberately aiding the October
7, 2023
Hamas
massacre through years of preserving the group's
rule in Gaza, allowing it to grow stronger.
He is also said to have deliberately ignored
warning signs of an attack.
Families of Israelis killed or abducted in the attack unveiled a
12-page dossier on Tuesday arguing that it was not simply an
intelligence failure, but the result of a long-running policy under
successive Netanyahu governments.
The report cites repeated Israeli government decisions to reject
strikes on Hamas leaders, facilitate Qatari funding for Gaza, and
consistently dismiss warnings about the group's growing
capabilities, treating it instead as a "calculated risk" and useful
counterweight to the Palestinian Authority.
"They attacked because they could.
Israel's governments, which held the reins of
power for nearly two decades, allowed it," the dossier claims.
"It could've been prevented, but the prime minister chose not to
act," Merav Svirsky, a relative of October 7 victims,
said at the press conference, explaining that the catastrophe
"was not merely a failure at a single moment. It was a choice to
repeatedly ignore the warnings."
Svirsky pointed to recent reports that Emirati
President
Mohammed bin Zayed,
had personally warned Netanyahu
roughly ten days before October 7 that Hamas was preparing a
major attack.
According to Haaretz, Netanyahu downplayed
the warning and did not pass it to his security chiefs.
Israeli rights group
B'Tselem has also accused
Netanyahu's government of carrying out,
a broader "project of elimination" in
the occupied West Bank.
Its new report, also published on Tuesday, says
the Israeli authorities and settlers are systematically dismantling
Palestinian life through,
violence, movement restrictions, economic
pressure, displacement, and territorial takeover.
B'Tselem and
Amnesty International have
separately,
accused Israel of committing genocide in
Gaza, citing mass killing, displacement, and the destruction of
conditions necessary for civilian life.
The accusations add to growing condemnation of
the Israeli government for its actions in Gaza and the West Bank,
which has led to allegations that,
Netanyahu deliberately allowed the October 7
assault to unfold in order to provide a pretext for a
wider campaign...
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people
in Israel and took 251 hostages on October 7, 2023.
Israel's subsequent response has killed more than
73,700 Palestinians in Gaza and left much of the enclave in
ruins.
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