The testimony follows a TIME investigation documenting how the Netanyahu government privately urged Doha to maintain aid flows into Gaza through mechanisms Israel approved and oversaw. Internal correspondence reveals officials steered nearly $2 billion in Qatari payments into the territory while simultaneously attacking Qatar in public for providing the funds.
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Netanyahu Denies Adviser Worked for Qatar After Urich Confession
Geopolitics1 day ago
The Prime Minister of Israel testified that his chief aide could not have been an employee of the Qatari government during the current conflict. Yonatan Urich, a close confidant of Benjamin Netanyahu, admitted to investigators in the 'Qatargate' probe that he received hundreds of thousands of shekels from Qatar and continued to work for the state for months after the October 7 attacks, according to Israeli news reports.
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