WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin made it clear Sunday that he is very much alive.
The Israeli leader poked fun at bogus online claims he had been assassinated by Iran, posting a video of himself buying a drink at a coffee shop, joking that it was dangerous because of the calorie count.
“They say I’m what?” Netanyahu posted on X, per a translation.
“I think coffee is to die for, I think my nation is to die for,” he said in the video as he bought a cup of coffee.
Rumors about Netanyahu being assassinated began circulating online late last week after online loons claimed they spotted him with six fingers during a speech he gave, and surmised it was an artificially generated video of him.
During the video post on Sunday, it was clear that the Israeli prime minister had five fingers on both of his hands. He also made small talk in the coffee shop about the war in Iran.
“We are doing things that I cannot share at this moment, but we are doing things,” he said, per a Google translation of his conversation in Hebrew. “We are hitting Iran very hard, even on this day, and in Lebanon, we are continuing.”
“Thank you for the coffee. It is excellent. I don’t know about the calories. It seems very dangerous to me,” he joked.
The Iranians have long been accused of plotting to assassinate Netanyahu and President Trump.
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Amid internet conspiracy theories dubiously claiming that Netanyahu was assassinated, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed to kill him.
“IRGC vows to pursue and kill ‘child-killer’ Netanyahu if he is still alive,” a headline in Iranian state media read Sunday.
Under Netanyahu’s watch, Israel joined the US in launching a war against Iran on Feb. 28. Israel also began strikes in Lebanon to attack Hezbollah, a US-designated terrorist organization aligned with Iran.
Iran has blasted off an onslaught of rockets and drones against Israel, some of which have penetrated the Jewish state’s sophisticated missile defense systems.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Force has wiped out top Iranian officials, with the IDK claiming Saturday to have killed two senior intelligence officers.
Reports have indicated that early on in the war, Israel carried out the strikes that killed the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, thanks to US intelligence.
“I got him before he got me. They tried twice … I got him first,” Trump boasted to ABC News earlier this month.
The late Grand Ayatollah’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was quickly named the next supreme leader of Iran, but there are open questions about his condition and whether or not he is still alive.
“It’s unclear that he really has control of the country, if he’s even alive at this point,” US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
The Post contacted the Israeli embassy to the US for comment.
