Israel has arrested 5 in the leak scandal, and Netanyahu is calling for an investigation

The Israel Broadcasting Corporation reported on Monday that the number of detainees in the leak case had increased to 5 people, and the newspaper “Israel Hayom” reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called for an investigation into how which security talks have been released.

The Israel Broadcasting Corporation explained that the increase in the number to 5 comes after the arrest of a high-ranking soldier, and cited sources in the investigations that the documents released “efforts in the danger to save the enemies and the lives of the soldiers. .”

While Israeli media reported that the court extended the ban on Netanyahu’s former spokesman, detained in the leak case, meeting with his lawyer, the newspaper “Israel Today” said that Netanyahu, in a letter to the government’s legal advisor, Gali Baharav Meara, requested an investigation into the release of security talks.

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Netanyahu wrote in his letter, “Since the beginning of the war, we have seen a continuous flood of dangerous leaks and disclosure of state secrets,” adding, “These leaks come from the sessions of the security ministerial council -political (cabinet). ), from the administration of the Coordinator for Prisoners and Missing Persons Affairs (connected to the military) and from limited security forums.”

Earlier today, Israeli media reported that the Internal Security Agency (Shin Bet) arrested an official in the context of the security leak scandal from Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, following yesterday’s announcement , Sunday, that 4 were suspended from the Prime Minister’s Office in the same case.

In conjunction with this, the Israeli court today extended the detention of those accused of security leaks, which the former Chairman of the National Security Council Eyal Kholta considered “the most dangerous case,” saying, “It is unbelievable that a case like this will happen when the prime minister is responsible.”

Earlier, it was revealed that a senior adviser leaked documents described as “top secret” to the British Jewish Chronicle and German Bild newspapers in September last year, even though he was not given a security classification. let him see those documents.

Israeli reports, based on investigations, said that the security leadership was not aware of the contents of the documents, including documents allegedly found in Gaza and given to the leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas ), the martyr Yahya Sinwar, but it was proved that they were created.

Israeli media also reported that Netanyahu used these “forged leaked” documents to prove his obstruction and torpedo the talks that were about to reach a prisoner exchange agreement, while the army continued with it the war on the Gaza Strip.