Hyderabad, Sept. 9 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed his lawyers to file a libel lawsuit against Haaretz, journalist Shlomi Eldar and additional parties over a report claiming that UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed warned him about a planned Hamas operation before the October 7, 2023 attack.

In a post on X on Wednesday, September 9, titled "Lies Made in 'Haaretz'", Netanyahu accused the newspaper, Eldar and others of fabricating a story that, he said, "never happened and was never created".

Netanyahu said no conversation took place between him and the UAE president from the beginning of September until October 7, 2023. He said the Prime Minister's Office, National Security Council and Military Secretariat had rev...