'They didn't wake me up': Netanyahu says security chiefs mistook Oct 7 attack for drill

The Times of India

'They didn't wake me up': Netanyahu says security chiefs mistook Hamas' Oct 7 attack for drill

Aastha Jha · Oct 14, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that intelligence and military chiefs feared waking him on the night of October 7, 2023, believing he could inadvertently trigger a Hamas attack, as he again blamed the security establishment for failing to anticipate the assault.