{"id":1500463,"date":"2024-11-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1500463"},"modified":"2024-11-05T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T09:00:00","slug":"netanyahu-aide-arrested-over-intel-leak-which-damaged-ceasefire-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/netanyahu-aide-arrested-over-intel-leak-which-damaged-ceasefire-talks\/1500463\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Aide Arrested Over Intel Leak Which Damaged Ceasefire Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netanyahu Aide Arrested Over Intel Leak Which Damaged Ceasefire Talks<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via The Cradle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Israeli police have arrested a top aide to\u00a0Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,\u00a0and four others for allegedly leaking classified information to foreign media<\/strong>, court documents\u00a0released<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday revealed. The intelligence allegedly claimed Hamas was planning to smuggle Israeli captives from Gaza to Egypt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Opposition leaders say the intelligence was leaked to take pressure off Netanyahu to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas<\/strong> that would bring home the roughly 100 Israeli captives still held by the Palestinian resistance movement. It is estimated that roughly 70 remain alive.<\/p>\n

Source: Flash90<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Netanyahu has repeatedly sabotaged ceasefire talks with Hamas since the start of the war on October 7 last year, despite heavy pressure from the families of the captives to reach a deal.<\/p>\n

Court documents released on Sunday identified Eliezer Feldstein, an aide to Netanyahu, as one of several people being detained and interrogated over the leak of \u201cclassified and sensitive intelligence information.\u201d The names of the other four detained persons have not been cleared for publication by Israel’s military censors.<\/p>\n

The intelligence was leaked to two foreign media outlets, the\u00a0Jewish Chronicle\u00a0in the UK and\u00a0Bild\u00a0in Germany, both of which published stories about the leaked intelligence. The\u00a0Jewish Chronicle\u00a0later retracted its story.<\/p>\n

The court documents said that information taken from the Israeli military\u2019s systems and \u201cillegally issued\u201d may have damaged Israel\u2019s ability to free the captives held by Hamas in Gaza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday accused the prime minister\u2019s office of leaking \u201cfaked secret documents to torpedo the possibility of a hostage deal<\/strong> \u2013 to shape a public opinion influence operation against the hostages\u2019 families.\u201d<\/p>\n

By claiming that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning to flee to Egypt with the captives, the leaked documents appeared to promote Netanyahu\u2019s claim in the minds of the Israeli public that any ceasefire deal must allow Israel to keep its forces on the Philadelphia Corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Otherwise, the captives could end up in Egypt\u2019s Sinai or \u201cpop up in Iran or Yemen,\u201d Netanyahu claimed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu added the\u00a0demand<\/a>\u00a0that Israel be allowed to continue occupying the Philadelphia Corridor in the 11th\u00a0hour of negotiations for a ceasefire this summer. The demand torpedoed the talks, as Hamas has long insisted on a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as part of any ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n

The issue with the leaks from Netanyahu’s office is that intelligence assets may have been burned not for military purposes but for PR or politicking, @da64<\/a> tells @laura_i24<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/vFs4LNEI7h<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) November 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Members of the Likud, Religious Zionism, and Jewish Power parties, which comprise Netanyahu\u2019s governing coalition, have\u00a0stated<\/a>\u00a0it is their priority to continue the war. They hope to ethnically cleanse Gaza and annex it, ideally to build Jewish settlements atop destroyed Palestinian cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Israeli soldiers have\u00a0stated<\/a>\u00a0the army is currently carrying out the so-called \u201cGenerals\u2019 Plan\u201d to forcibly expel the remaining 300,000 residents in northern Gaza and move them to the south of the strip. The plan calls for starving or killing any militants or Palestinian civilians who refuse or are unable to leave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 11\/04\/2024 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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