'They didn't wake me up': Netanyahu says security chiefs mistook Oct 7 attack for drill

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that intelligence and military chiefs feared waking him on the night of October 7, 2023, believing he could inadvertently trigger a Hamas attack, as he again blamed the security establishment for failing to anticipate the assault.“If we wake up the prime minister, he’ll cause Hamas to attack us without meaning to,” Netanyahu asserted the security chiefs believed, as quoted by The Times of Israel.Netanyahu said security officials had mistaken Hamas’s preparations for a military drill or a minor attack, despite signs that the Palestinian militant group was preparing for an assault.According to Netanyahu, officials had seen Hamas operatives putting Israeli SIM cards into their phones and senior Hamas commanders heading underground.