Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former military secretary, Avi Gil, told N12 News on Thursday that Netanyahu gave an inaccurate account of his October 7 timeline and added that his chief of staff allegedly tried to change the official record of the prime minister’s schedule.
“The document shared with the public [of Netanyahu’s schedule] does not reflect what I saw and experienced and heard that day,” Gil said. “It only shows part. What I saw does not correctly reflect what I witnessed take place on Oct. 7.”
“I think we are ruining Israel because of the lies,” he said. “I am talking about lies, half-truths that don’t align with what I have seen.
Gil told N12’s Danny Kushmaro that he thought he would be speaking to a state commission of inquiry about the massacre, which is why he kept his accounts of the day private. He now believes that one will ever be formed.
“Three years have passed since October 7, and two years since I retired from the IDF. I hoped a state commission of inquiry would be established to investigate everything. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened, and I doubt it will.”
Gil said once he realized that he would not be speaking to a state commission of inquiry, he felt that he needed to speak about his experience on October 7.
“In the past few weeks, I realized I had to come out and say what I knew. Because we saw what happened recently when there is no investigation.”
“What the public is being told is not what actually happened,” he added. “This isn’t my truth. It’s the country’s truth.”
Gil told reporters that Netanyahu had heard several warnings before the October 7 massacre about suspicious activity in Gaza, but they were all shot down.
“October 7 was Israel’s failure. Netanyahu heard it all from agency heads, everything that was known. There were suggestions to do targeted strikes in Gaza from time to time, but they were all denied.”
This is a developing story.
