Netanyahu: Terror tunnels were discussed in 9 Cabinet meetings

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday evening rejected accusations by Cabinet ministers, including Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett, that Netanyahu hid the existence of Hamas's terror tunnels from the Cabinet during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014.

“Claims that Israel was unprepared to meet the tunnel threat are without foundation. It has been claimed that the tunnel threat had not been presented to the Cabinet prior to Operation Protective Edge and that the Cabinet did not know about tunnels that penetrated into our territory. This is false,” said a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.