Israeli minister says Netanyahu and government ‘responsible’ for Hamas assault

Israeli culture and sports minister Miki Zohar has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he is responsible for the Hamas assault on 7 October. 

“It’s clear to me that Netanyahu and the entire government of Israel, and those who this happened on their watch, are responsible. That’s also clear to the prime minister,” he said on the Israeli Army Radio. 

Zohar, who is from Netanyahu’s Likud party also said: “we can’t deal now with questions of guilt because we are in a war, I don’t want to investigate now what happened in the intelligence branch, or the operational branch, or on the political level. There will be an independent state commission of inquiry.”