‘Egypt warned’... and Netanyahu denies repeated warnings narrative

A new Wall Street Journal report, cited by Israel's Channel 12, has revived the issue of warnings before the October 7, 2023 attack. The report said then-Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in early October 2023 to warn of a possible attack from Gaza, after two earlier Egyptian warnings in June and September that received insufficient response, without specifying a time or scale of the attack. Netanyahu's office categorically denied the account, saying Netanyahu did not meet or speak with Kamel in the months before the attack, and that Egypt officially denied warning Israel. The report also mentioned UAE warnings and a message from Yahya Sinwar, amid renewed debate over what reached the political level before the attack.