Police have denied allegations that there was an attempt to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his state visit to the country. He said the trip by Netanyahu was incident free and called on the people to desist from spreading such rumours. Read: Israel dismisses report of foiled plot to assassinate Netanyahu in KenyaThe Kuwaiti paper, al Jarida, quoted an anonymous, ostensibly well-placed source saying that the Kenyan authorities ordered a change in the route taken by Netanyahu and his delegation from Nairobi airport to their hotel on Tuesday. Netanyahu then said, “We know nothing about it [the report] because there is nothing to it.” This happened as Netanyahu's office on Thursday dismissed as “absolute nonsense” a report in a Kuwaiti daily that claimed Kenyan security authorities foiled an attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister during his trip to Kenya earlier this week.

Source: The Star July 08, 2016 13:30 UTC