TEL AVIV, September 29. /TASS/. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a threat of an attack on his country ahead of the October parliamentary elections.

"We have indications that, ahead of the elections, our enemies will try to attack us. So from here, from this Air Force base, from the long arm of the State of Israel, I have a message for them: Don’t mess with us - not now, and not ever. Our long arm will reach you anywhere, at any time," he said in a video address recorded while he visited the Tel Nof airbase and released by his office.

Elections to Israel’s Knesset, or parliament, will be held on October 27, 2026. The leader of the winning party will be tasked with forming a new government. Today, according to the latest polls, the bloc of the current ruling coalition led by Netanyahu’s Likud party and the united opposition are neck and neck. However, neither side can count on the majority of 61 out of 120 seats in the Knesset required to form a ruling coalition.