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BBC and Guardian editors met privately with Israeli General one month after October 7, Declassified reveals

FORMER Israeli top military commander General Aviv Kohavi held private meetings with British news editors one month after October 7, a Declassified investigation revealed yesterday.

Mr Kohavi met with Guardian editor Katherine Viner, BBC’s director of news content Richard Burgess and Financial Times editor Roula Khala.

Meetings were also scheduled with Sky News chairman David Rhodes and then-shadow foreign secretary David Lammy.

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