Netanyahu's funding for Hamas via Qatar enabled October 7 invasion, Shin Bet reveals

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Source: Jerusalem Post

Netanyahu's funding for Hamas via Qatar enabled October 7 invasion, Shin Bet reveals

The Shin Bet also revealed that SIM cards and sensors along the border were activated ahead of time but were ignored.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB
MARCH 4, 2025 19:29
Updated: MARCH 4, 2025 19:44

While taking plenty of responsibility for the October 7 disaster, in its report published suddenly and unexpectedly on Tuesday, the Shin Bet included accusations that policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the Temple Mount, Palestinian prisoners’ treatment, and the judicial overhaul, were significant additional motivators for Hamas to finally actually initiate its long-planned invasion.

In fact, the Shin Bet never mentions Netanyahu by name, and technically, some of these policies were those of then national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, but Netanyahu, as prime minister, allowed many of the policies to continue, despite having the power to stop them.

More specifically, Ben-Gvir vastly expanded the volume of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount compared to prior years, violated some of the rules of what activities could be done on the Mount, publicly called for completely changing the “status quo,” and enforced policies to worsen the treatment of Palestinian prisoners.

Ben-Gvir’s moves led to public condemnations by moderate Sunni Arab allies, the West, and Hamas and to private warnings by the Shin Bet.

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Original Jerusalem Post article (paywall): https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-844701

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1. kinda sounds (and reads) like the 'report' is pointing much more squarely at hard line

Israeli government policy(s) ... Can we maybe assume that the newspaper was cherry picking for that headline?