



Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday mistook the date of Hamas’s October 7 attack as the “November 7 massacre” during a US media interview, marking the third time he has publicly mixed up the date of the brutal assault.
Speaking to the “Fox and Friends” morning show, Netanyahu was explaining the current challenges of reaching a hostage deal with the terror group when he slipped up.
“They just want us out of Gaza so they can retake Gaza, and do as they vowed to do, the November 7 massacre, butchery, again and again and again,” Netanyahu said, without correcting the error.
Earlier this week at a press conference, Netanyahu made a similar mistake, when he declared it was important to be united against “a cruel enemy who wants to destroy us all, Jews and non-Jews.”
“We discovered this through the war. Not just on October 9, and we discovered it in the execution of six of our hostages,” he said, referring to the murder of captives by Hamas terrorists in Gaza late last week.
In another apparent slip of the tongue in May, Netanyahu said the Holocaust “was equal to 5,000 November 7s,” then quickly corrected himself to “October,” at a Knesset Holocaust memorial event.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which has been pressuring the government to reach a hostage deal, released a statement Thursday that asked “to remind the prime minister that the massacre occurred on October 7, not on November 7 or October 9.”
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid joked that Yinon Magal, a prominent figure on the right-wing Channel 14 network who staunchly supports Netanyahu, would stand by the premier’s remarks.
“Yinon Magal: If he says it is in November, it was in November,” Lapid posted on X.