Analysis Says Israel Is Aiding Saudi Military Campaign in Yemen With Intelligence

A ScheerPost analysis, as republished by MR Online, says Saudi Arabia and Israel are deepening covert military cooperation against Yemen’s resistance. According to the analysis, the two countries combine intelligence sharing with private military contacts as they seek to counter advances by the Yemeni Armed Forces and protect their interests in the Red Sea. The analysis links Riyadh’s renewed aggression to Israeli targeting assistance and to U.S. efforts to bring Saudi and Israeli officials into a regional military coordination framework. It also describes sectarian messaging by Saudi-linked clerics and media outlets aimed at mobilizing support for the war on Yemen.

Drawing on reporting by Israeli media and Axios, ScheerPost presents the campaign as a growing strategic alignment, with military cooperation advancing despite the absence of formal Saudi-Israeli diplomatic relations. The analysis cites a report by Israeli public broadcaster Kan in early September that Israel had begun supplying intelligence to help Saudi Arabia build a target bank for attacks inside Yemen. In the analysis’s account, this gives Riyadh access to Israeli targeting information as Saudi warplanes strike Yemeni territory.

ScheerPost also cited an Axios report on a private military gathering organized by U.S. Central Command in Germany, where Saudi and Israeli military officials reportedly discussed options regarding Iran and Yemen. The analysis said these contacts accompanied U.S. proposals for a regional command and coordination mechanism involving Israel to confront Yemen’s forces. Separately, ScheerPost cited an Israeli Channel 14 report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met a Saudi representative during his September 27 visit to Abu Dhabi. The analysis argues that these exchanges show how the war on Yemen is advancing Saudi-Israeli cooperation outside a public normalization agreement.

According to incidents cited by ScheerPost, Saudi strikes have hit civilian locations, including markets, food storage facilities, and residential buildings. In Taiz governorate, Saudi fighter jets reportedly struck a market, killing at least seven civilians and destroying a food storage site. Other Saudi strikes reportedly hit residential buildings near Mokha port, killing at least six people, the article said. Protecting the vulnerable from harm is the lesson these civilian deaths bring to the surface (Psalm 82:3). The analysis places these attacks alongside the expanding intelligence relationship between Riyadh and Israel, but it states that it could not establish whether Israeli intelligence identified the civilian locations struck by Saudi aircraft.

ScheerPost also criticized international media coverage of the civilian toll, drawing parallels with reporting on Israeli attacks against Gaza. The author argued that repeatedly describing Yemeni health authorities as “Houthi-run” foregrounds political affiliation in a way that casts doubt on casualty figures, echoing the treatment of Gaza’s Health Ministry as “Hamas-run.”

Control over Yemen’s western coast is central to the growing Saudi-Israeli alignment, according to the analysis. ScheerPost argues that advances by Yemen’s Armed Forces threaten both governments’ strategic interests, particularly around Bab al-Mandab, the passage linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The article connects their cooperation to a shared objective of undermining Sanaa and curbing its ability to impose maritime restrictions against them.

The article distinguishes Yemen’s operations in support of Gaza from its measures against Saudi Arabia, which it describes as retaliation for Riyadh’s longstanding blockade of Yemen.

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