# Netanyahu Flew to Abu Dhabi in Secret, Four Hours After the October 7 Warning Question Resurfaced > The prime minister landed at 3:10pm and was gone within four hours, and neither his office nor the Emirati embassy would say why, as controversy grows over whether MBZ warned him before the Hamas attack. - Source: Israel Today - Canonical URL: https://israeltoday.news/article/netanyahu-secret-abu-dhabi-visit-mbz-meeting - Author: Amir Doron - Section: World - Published: 2026-09-27T20:30:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-27T20:30:00.000Z - Tags: UAE, Netanyahu, Diplomacy --- Prime Minister Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi on Sunday to meet UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed, departing Israel shortly after noon and landing at 3:10pm, according to Channel 12. He spent roughly four hours in the UAE before returning. Neither the Prime Minister's Office nor the Emirati embassy responded to requests for comment on the visit. The timing is what makes an unannounced trip hard to read as routine. It comes amid a live controversy in Israel over purported warnings bin Zayed is said to have given Netanyahu before the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack, a claim that, if confirmed, would add the UAE to the list of channels through which advance warning may have reached Jerusalem and gone unacted on. A secret meeting between the two leaders now does not resolve that question. It adds a fresh, unexplained data point to it. The visit landed the same day Israel moved on a separate diplomatic front, with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar announcing that Dutch diplomats in Ramallah will have their credentials revoked within seven days, in response to a Netherlands trade ban on Israeli settlement goods that took effect the same day. One relationship was being downgraded in public while another was apparently being managed in private, on the same afternoon. A four hour, unexplained visit to a country central to a live domestic controversy about October 7 is the kind of trip that generates more questions than it answers by design. Whether the meeting addressed the warning question, some other matter entirely, or both, is something only Netanyahu and bin Zayed currently know, and neither government has said which. --- Originally published by Israel Today. Free to cite with attribution and a link to https://israeltoday.news/article/netanyahu-secret-abu-dhabi-visit-mbz-meeting.