Report: Netanyahu Ignored UAE Warning Before Oct. 7

Sinwar tells a former Palestinian official, who had contacts with both Hamas and Israeli security officials, that he is preparing a "zilzal," or earthquake, later calling it "the mother of all surprises" and "a terrifying operation," Haaretz reports.

That intelligence reaches the Shin Bet, according to the report. Bar briefs Netanyahu.

Two days later, Bar warns in a security assessment that Israel is "on a collision course," recommending either offensive action or stronger defenses around Gaza and the West Bank, Haaretz reports.

About a week and a half before the attack, bin Zayed calls Netanyahu. The Emirati leader's source was a close adviser, a Palestinian who had emigrated from Gaza to Abu Dhabi years earlier and kept contacts in the Strip. Bin Zayed also urges an economic solution in Gaza and lower tensions in the West Bank, and later tells then-CIA Director William Burns that "something is about to explode."

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel separately contacts Netanyahu to warn that Hamas is planning "something unusual, a terrifying operation," per Haaretz.

Bar meets Netanyahu and recommends a targeted assassination of Sinwar plus strikes on other senior Hamas figures, telling him the Shin Bet had identified that Hamas was "preparing something extreme" and using the word "earthquake," a security source told The Jerusalem Post. Netanyahu does not accept the recommendation. Haaretz reports he mentioned neither the Emirati nor the Egyptian call during that day's security discussion on Hamas and Gaza.

Hamas storms into Israel, killing 1,221 people including a mass killing at a music festival, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures, and dragging 251 hostages into Gaza, 44 of them already dead.

Haaretz publishes the account. Netanyahu's office denies it; opposition leaders call him unfit to serve.