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Netanyahu adviser Yonatan Urich told interrogators he continued working on a Qatari public relations campaign after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, Channel 12 reported on October 19, 2026. Urich reportedly said he saw no moral problem with the arrangement and estimated he was paid hundreds of thousands of shekels, continuing until at least mid-2024; opposition figure Naftali Bennett demanded Netanyahu 'tell the public the truth' about his office's Qatar ties amid the broader Qatargate investigation.