Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response to former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar's lawsuit, sources close to Bar said, "No one is more serious than him. The loss of so many lives is a serious matter. If the prime minister is serious, let him waive immunity and face it and explain the policy he set, the communication methods he set, which the military secretary described, and the recommendations to kill senior Hamas officials that he never advanced." Netanyahu wrote earlier: "Ronen, are you serious? After all, you had my red phone number and could have called me immediately, as all heads of the security establishment do."