JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) of Israel has charged a senior adviser to Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu with "disclosing confidential information with the intent to endanger the security of the state."
The lawsuit was announced on Thursday, May 28. According to the Israeli Attorney General's Office, this case concerns confidential war documents in Gaza that Netanyahu's aides leaked to the German newspaper Bild in 2024, violating military censorship.
In a letter addressed to Netanyahu's aide's lawyer, Israeli Attorney General Yonatan Urichn said the indictment would be filed with the Tel Aviv Court.
In addition to "disclosing classified information with the intent to harm the security of the state," according to a copy of the document seen by AFP, the charges include possession and disclosure of classified information, and destruction of evidence.
The leaked document reportedly aims to support Netanyahu's claim that the Hamas independence group is not interested in a ceasefire deal.
The leaked document, which threatens Israel's image, also contains how the public should support Netanyahu's claims about the narrative only through the pressure of the military hostages captured by Hamas during the Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023 can be released.
Two other former Netanyahu advisers, Eli Feldstein and Ari Rosenfeld, have also been charged in the case.
Urich, one of Netanyahu's closest aides and advisers, was once a suspect in a scandal called "Qatargate", in which he and other close associates of Netanyahu were allegedly recruited by Qatar to promote the Gulf monarchy in Israel.
Qatar is known to host senior Hamas leaders and has played a mediating role between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement during the Gaza war.
Urich, a former Likud Party spokesman whose Netanyahu is one of the leaders, heads a consulting firm that Israeli media say Qatar hired to polish the country's image ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
Earlier on Tuesday, 26 May, Israeli prosecutors said they were considering bringing charges of "fraud and breach of trust, as well as obstruction of justice" against Netanyahu's former chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, in connection with the leak of confidential documents to the Bild newspaper.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
