UAE Denies Involvement in Israeli Political Discourse Following Reports

The United Arab Emirates has conveyed that it will not be drawn into reports alleging that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prior to the October 7th Hamas attacks. Sources in Abu Dhabi indicated that it is not their role to issue denials for every media report published in Israel. The message conveyed was that the UAE does not interfere in Israeli elections and will not serve as the government's "public relations office."

The Prime Minister's Office has strongly denied the report. Analyst Yossi Kaspit linked the current report to previous publications about warnings received from Egypt before the attack, stating that the accumulation of such reports strengthens his view that external actors had alerted Israel to potential Hamas actions. Kaspit suggested the narrative is shifting from "Why didn't they wake him up?" to "Why didn't he wake us up?"

Kaspit reiterated that the report fits a pattern of warnings and intelligence gathered before the attack. He emphasized that the key question is not only what security agencies knew on the night of October 6-7, but also what warnings reached the political leadership in the preceding weeks and how they were handled. The debate between Kaspit and others, such as Yair Lapid, reportedly ended without agreement, with demands for proof of the conversation with bin Zayed versus the assertion that the totality of reports and sources validates the account.