Overview
- Netanyahu last week released a detailed written response he filed with State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman as part of the inquiry into the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack.
- In a recorded statement, Naftali Bennett said the document shows Netanyahu did not lead, manage, or govern, portraying him as a passive figure steered by security chiefs.
- Bennett argued Netanyahu adopted a containment policy that let Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south grow stronger while he took no decisive action.
- He alleged Netanyahu enabled cash transfers to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar for temporary quiet and claimed three senior advisers received salaries from Qatari sources during the war.
- Contrasting his record, Bennett said that during Operation Protective Edge he pressed the system until the IDF shifted to an offensive posture that destroyed 30 cross-border tunnels.