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While his entourage faces serious accusations of concealment, dissemination and falsification of secret defense documents, the Israeli Prime Minister attacks his opponents, the world and the vestiges of a state of law in distress, hoping to delay, once moreover, his fall.
The ground has become increasingly soft under Benyamin Netanyahu's feet since the lifting of censorship at the beginning of November on a series of investigations heavily involving members of his team. Two of them concern the modification of minutes of secret meetings in the days following the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7, 2023. Another focuses on potential blackmail. A last concerns a leak of confidential information to the foreign press, which justified Israel's control of the border between Gaza and Egypt, sabotaging negotiation efforts with Hamas.
These investigations therefore look into attempts to conceal and falsify classified defense information on the start of this war, facts which could well turn into a serious state affair. If the government still refuses to open a proper investigation into security failures before October 7, two versions clash on the alert which would have been launched on the night of October 6 to 7, 2023, when hundreds of SIM cards were activated at the same time by Hamas. According to some sources, the Prime Minister was informed immediately. Others claim that he was only informed at 6:29 a.m., the exact moment the Hamas attack began. If there is no longer any doubt about the fact that security failures occurred before this fatal day, the question is whether
