The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, Benjamin Netanyahudescribed this Tuesday as an “unprecedented witch hunt” an ongoing police investigation into a possible criminal offense of public corruption related to his management at the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip.
“After a year with a deluge of criminal leaks from the Cabinet and hostage discussions, which provided valuable information to our enemies, the only two investigations that have been opened are directed against the Prime Minister’s Office and not against the leakers who caused tremendous damage to those kidnapped and to the security of Israel,” states a statement from his office.
The Israeli Police Unit 433 published this Tuesday, after prior authorization from the judicial censorship, which has been investigating “events at the beginning of the war” since June in Gazawithout giving further details, which would have been denounced by a high-ranking member of the prime minister’s office.
The Israeli newspaper Ynet suggests that this investigation could be related to the alleged alteration by officials close to Netanyahu of “some of the protocols or transcripts” of the meetings held by the Cabinet during the management of the war.
“As in other attempts to inflate accusations against the prime minister and his entourage, in this case too the mountain will not give birth to a mouse”concludes the statement.
In a separate probe now known as “BibiLeaks,” with at least four suspects detained, the country’s internal security service (Shin Bet) is investigating whether the Prime Minister’s Office colluded with intelligence officials to disseminate classified material to foreign media outlets. to favor public opinion against a hostage agreement in Gaza.
Eli FeldsteinNetanyahu’s spokesman and close advisor, remains in pretrial detention, along with two other defense and intelligence officials and a fourth lower-ranking military officer.
In September, both the German tabloid Bild and the British newspaper The Jewish Chronicle published fabricated intelligence that the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was plotting to escape with Gaza hostages across the Israel-Egypt divide, which Netanyahu used to insist on the need to control the Philadelphia Corridor and not sign a truce with Hamas.
Shortly after these investigations became known, Netanyahu announced today the dismissal of his Defense Minister, Yoav Gallantdue to discrepancies regarding the management of the war in Gaza and Lebanon, and assigned as his replacement the until now Foreign Minister, Israel Katz. EFE (I)
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