Sources familiar with the matter told i24NEWS that Washington heard of no concrete advance warning from the UAE before the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. The exclusive, reported by Amichai Stein, comes against the backdrop of Haaretz-published quotes saying the UAE president warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the massacre.
Amichai Stein, reporting exclusively for i24NEWS, cites sources familiar with the matter as saying the Biden administration was unaware of any concrete advance warning from the UAE before the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre — with Washington having heard nothing from Abu Dhabi. The account rests on unnamed administration sources and has not been independently corroborated. The development lands in a fast-moving thread: Tuesday morning's Haaretz investigation claimed UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call roughly ten days before the attack, with N12 adding the call lasted 45 minutes and the Prime Minister's Office issuing a denial that any such conversation took place. By Tuesday evening, as The Zioneer reported, UAE sources declined to confirm or deny reports concerning the alleged warning call.
The new i24NEWS report has no stated publication time in our desk file, so it cannot be anchored with its own clock; it stands as the latest reported development in this thread. What is notable is the picture it adds: the Biden administration, according to the sources cited, heard no concrete warning from the UAE — a claim that does not by itself resolve whether a call took place, but does bear on what Washington knew at the time.
Across the thread, the sourcing has evolved considerably. The original Haaretz claim rested on three sources confirming the call's details; N12 then attributed the intelligence behind a Sinwar warning to bin Zayed and reported a 45-minute call, alongside the PM's office denial; and the PM's office has consistently denied the call. Corroboration has not come from the Emirati side: UAE sources told Israeli media Tuesday evening they would neither confirm nor deny reports about the president's 'personal conversations.'
Still open: whether the call occurred at all, what Israeli decision-makers were told before Oct. 7, the identity of the American sources cited by i24NEWS, and whether Washington's reported unawareness is corroborated by any additional channel. As of now, the new claim rests on a single outlet's reporting.
6 developments
- StrongLapid says Netanyahu dismissed UAE, Egypt and security chiefs' warnings before Oct. 7 massacre
- ConfirmedPre-October 7 discussion participants break silence, claim no one knew of UAE message
- StrongMendi Asraf: Senior source says last Netanyahu-UAE president call before Oct 7 was in early 2023
- DevelopingSocial media commentary: Islamic Jihad rally six days before October 7 was ignored, writer claims
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