Tel Aviv: Several top officials, including the Prime Minister’s House spokesman and adviser, were arrested in Tel Aviv for revealing secrets related to the Gaza war.
According to Israeli media, the Israeli intelligence agency Shabak, the police and the military are jointly investigating the leak of “top secret” documents from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. Several suspects have been arrested in this regard.
Officials say the disclosure of the plan has harmed Israel’s war aims and national security.
The suspects are suspected of sharing classified information with the German newspaper Bild and other Israeli journalists.
Israeli Judge Menachem Mirzahi has said that several suspects have been arrested for questioning and the investigation is still ongoing, but the identities of the suspects have not yet been disclosed and are being concealed, while Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. It has been said that no staff member is included in them.
Some analysts have said that the Prime Minister has assistants who work for him but are not official employees of his office.
According to the report, the suspects leaked and distorted documents related to Hamas’s strategy during the hostage talks.
One of those arrested has been an adviser to Netanyahu for the past year and a half, who is said to have been with him every day in the prime minister’s office, sat with him, accompanied him on every trip. , attended all consultations and even traveled in the convoy with the prime minister, Netanyahu personally called him every day, consulted and sent him on missions.
Israeli Channel 12 also aired several blurry photos of the man, including one of him in a room with Netanyahu and several other ministers.
Among those arrested was a spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office who was said to have been hired without security clearance. The man also had access to classified documents and used to have secret visits with the Prime Minister.
On the other hand, the Israeli opposition has held Netanyahu responsible for this scandal, saying that he is trying to exonerate himself from this matter and blame others, but the facts are the opposite. In fact, he himself is responsible for every paper that leaves his office.
It should be noted that there have been several incidents of Israeli sensitive documents being leaked, including the leak of documents on the plan to attack Iran.
