Gadi Eisenkot Reveals Threat Left on Son's Grave

Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the "Yashar!" party, revealed in an interview with "Yedioth Ahronoth's" weekend supplement that a threatening message was recently left on the grave of his son, Gal, who fell in Gaza in December 2023. Eisenkot stated that someone placed a plaque with written threats on his son's grave, but he decided not to act on it, saying it is difficult to scare him at this stage of his life.

Eisenkot also accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of fabricating reports and providing false versions of events to investigators, suggesting a criminal danger. He specifically referenced a document prepared by Netanyahu's military secretary following a situation assessment on October 1, 2023, which recommended operational readiness for eliminating Hamas leaders. Eisenkot claims this contradicts Netanyahu's version of events, asserting that security officials had recommended assassinating Hamas leaders less than a week before the October 7th attack.

During the interview, Eisenkot also shared an archival clip from April 2004, where he, then a young brigadier general commanding IDF forces in the West Bank, predicted that "terrorism will continue for many long years" and that there is no "absolute victory" in the struggle, only minimizing Palestinian achievements. He also chillingly predicted that his son, then five years old, would fight in the territories.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid condemned the threats against Eisenkot, calling them "pathetic and despicable attacks" and stating that political opponents have reached a new low. A broader investigation into Netanyahu's conduct before October 7th, by Ronen Bergman and Yuval Robovitch, is set to be published.