Netanyahu is scared, starting underground office work?
Israel's Channel 12 reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been primarily working in a reinforced room in the basement of the Prime Minister's Office recently, and has avoided regular visits to a public place to prevent drone or other forms of attacks.
Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea, a coastal city in northern Israel, was lightly damaged last month when a small drone from Hezbollah in Lebanon attacked it. According to Channel 12 News in Israel, after the attack, Netanyahu followed the security department's advice and avoided staying in the ground-level office of the Prime Minister's residence and other "fixed locations."
This photo, released on the specified date, shows Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (center left), then Defense Minister Gallant (center right), and senior IDF commanders sitting inside the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv during the Iranian attack.
The report analysis suggests that Netanyahu has been constantly changing the locations for cabinet meetings, and the postponement of his son Avner's wedding, originally scheduled for late this month, may be due to security considerations. Additionally, Netanyahu's legal team submitted an application to the Jerusalem District Court on the evening of the 10th to delay the hearing of the corruption case involving Netanyahu by two and a half months, citing the reason that this would avoid his multiple appearances at the same location within a week.
The court is hearing three corruption cases involving Netanyahu, requiring him to testify starting from the beginning of the month. Israeli media reports that the Jerusalem District Court building does not have a "safe room" or bomb shelter. The hearing process is expected to last several hours each day and take several weeks to conclude.
On the date, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea had its surrounding roads blocked off.
This year, Netanyahu's lawyer requested to postpone the hearing from November to January of the following year, citing Netanyahu's leadership in national defense. The court only agreed to reschedule it to December. Netanyahu was indicted in January and the trial began in the same month. He denies all charges.
Israeli public opinion believes that after Netanyahu's return to the prime minister's position, he pushed forward the judicial reform despite domestic opposition, aiming to seize more power, and possibly using it to suppress judicial proceedings against his own corruption allegations.
After the outbreak of the current Israel-Palestine conflict last month, Hezbollah in Lebanon engaged in cross-border fire with the Israeli military along the Lebanon-Israel border, in support of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) fighting against the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. Starting from this month, Israel launched large-scale air strikes on Lebanon and conducted "targeted eliminations" of Hezbollah's high-ranking officials. On the 1st, Israel announced the beginning of a ground offensive in southern Lebanon. While Hezbollah engaged in ground resistance against the Israeli military, it continued to attack targets within Israel using drones, missiles, and rockets.