Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made fun of rumors spread by the Iranian regime in a video. This had previously spread that Netanyahu was dead.
Mar 16, 2026, 4:15 a.mMar 16, 2026, 4:15 a.m
He could just “die for a coffee,” Netanyahu said sarcastically in a video published on his account on the online service X on Sunday – and then he was immediately given a coffee.
Then the head of government raised his hands in front of the camera and asked: “Do you want to count your fingers?” He alluded to speculation in online networks that his recent television speech was generated by artificial intelligence, as according to speculation he appeared to have six fingers on one hand.
Netanyahu shows his five fingers on each hand.Image: screenshot x
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards threatened to kill Netanyahu on Sunday. The Revolutionary Guards would “pursue and kill” Netanyahu if he was still alive, the Iranian news agency Irna said on X.
Israel and the USA began joint air strikes on Iran on February 28th. On the first day of the war, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other members of the Iranian leadership were killed in Tehran. Since then, Iran has been attacking Israel as well as several Gulf states and US facilities in the Gulf region with missiles and drones.
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