Flight tracking data and Israeli media report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi on Sunday for 4 hours. Netanyahu traveled on a private jet, registration M-ULTI, landing at 15:10 and departing at 19:10 after taking off from Ben Gurion Airport shortly after noon. Despite these reports, the UAE government issued an official statement denying that the Israeli leader visited the country.

The unannounced meeting comes after reports that the Emirati leader warned Israel of the October 7 Hamas attack, a claim Netanyahu's office has called a "sinister plot" and denied. Security cooperation between the two nations has deepened since the war with Iran, including the temporary deployment of an Israeli Iron Dome system to the UAE. Political rivals have argued Netanyahu failed to share the intelligence warnings with security chiefs ahead of the October 7 attack.