TEL AVIV (Dispatches) -- A bombshell report published by Israeli daily Haaretz has revealed that UAE President Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan personally warned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of an impending Hamas operation just 10 days before the October 7, 2023 al-Aqsa Flood, but Netanyahu assured the Emirati ruler that Israel was prepared for any scenario.
According to the report, bin Zayed spoke with Netanyahu for approximately 45 minutes and specifically warned that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major operation that would threaten the Abraham Accords, the normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab and Muslim-majority countries.
Netanyahu reportedly “reacted with relative calm” and assured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared, while suggesting that any potential attack was more likely to come from the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu’s office has rejected the report as an “absolute lie,” insisting that he did not speak with bin Zayed during the period in question and received no warning from him. The UAE Foreign Ministry has refused to comment on what it described as “speculation.”
At the same time, the UAE admitted that the kingdom and Israel maintain “open and direct lines of communication” and that, when necessary, “all relevant intelligence has been and continues to be communicated” between them.
The revelation has become especially damaging for Netanyahu ahead of elections on October 27, with his handling of the October 7 fiasco emerging as a central issue. 
Former Israeli military chief and Netanyahu rival Gadi Eisenkot said the Zionist prime minister “received dozens of warnings for October 7 and ignored them all.” Former prime minister Naftali Bennett said, “Netanyahu bears personal and direct responsibility for the failure.”
The new revelation exposes Abu Dhabi’s deep complicity in Israel’s war machine and its systematic betrayal of the Palestinian cause, Arab solidarity, and the collective conscience of the Muslim world. 
Since signing the Abraham Accords in 2020, the UAE has transformed into one of Israel’s most trusted regional allies, with leaked documents revealing extensive espionage collaboration between the UAE and Israel’s Mossad, including joint surveillance operations inside Gaza and Qatar. 
The UAE has also actively worked to marginalize the Palestinian cause, removing references to the war from school textbooks and reframing it as a mere “land dispute.”
Since Israel began its genocidal war against Gaza, its forces have killed at least 73,000 Palestinians and wounded another 173,000, most of them women and children, with thousands remaining under rubble.