UAE used military bases in Red Sea region to aid Israel's war against Hamas, leaks reveal
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The document, which was obtained and released by the website Emirates Leaks, has been making waves in anti-Israel media sites.
The October 2023 document, addressed to the Joint Operations Command of the UAE Forces, shows the Emiratis intended to use their military bases in the southern Red Sea, including Yemen, Eritrea, and Somalia, to provide Israel with military, logistics, and intelligence aid for its war against Hamas.
The documents take an unequivocally pro-Israel tone. One section – a brief – covered “the start of the terrorists in Palestine launching attacks against the sister state of Israel.”
That same brief went on to reference the Abraham Accords, saying, “The United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel are linked by close cultural, diplomatic, economic, and security relations, and these relations have intensified since the historic agreement of 2020.”
The brief then confirmed that the UAE Joint Operations Command issued an order to support the State of Israel through military bases in the southern Red Sea region – al-Mokha on Yemen’s western coast, Massawa and Assab in Eritrea, and Berbera and Bassa in Somalia.
“Rapid preparation and mobilization of available capabilities” are needed “to supply our military bases in the southern Red Sea, particularly in Yemen, with everything required to support the State of Israel,” the brief read.
The documents confirmed that UAE military officials traveled to various bases to assess their suitability for supporting Israel.
A later page in the document revealed that the UAE – soon after Hamas’s October 7 invasion – carried out “extensive investigations” into the “massive support provided by Qatar to Hamas .”
It found that the support provided by Qatar to the terrorist organization in the form of financial and logistical assistance was “very substantial,” and the support provided by Kuwait was “sufficient to hinder any of our movements along the southern Red Sea.
A later page in the document revealed that the UAE – soon after Hamas’s October 7 invasion – carried out “extensive investigations” into the “massive support provided by Qatar to Hamas.”
It found that the support provided by Qatar to the terrorist organization in the form of financial and logistical assistance was “very substantial,” and the support provided by Kuwait was “sufficient to hinder any of our movements along the southern Red Sea.
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The October 2023 document, addressed to the Joint Operations Command of the UAE Forces, shows the Emiratis intended to use their military bases in the southern Red Sea, including Yemen, Eritrea, and Somalia, to provide Israel with military, logistics, and intelligence aid for its war against Hamas.
They had a base in Yemen? Although they were in a postion to couner the Houthies attacks on ships in the Red Sea, there certainly wasn't any news about that happening.
During the meeting, the officers decided to open a communication channel between Yemen’s National Resistance Forces (NRF) and Israel. They also decided to allocate “all light and medium weapons” and prepare “them technically and logistically for transfer to Israel.”
Then, in an October 21 meeting in the Assab base in Eritrea, UAE generals decided to provide this army base “with all logistical support” and allocate “all sites on Dahlak Island and the Dahlak Archipelago for the purpose of supplying Israel.”
Okay, they talked about it and wrote about it, but we certainly never heard about it.
Over the years I've begun to realize that to be fully informed I really need to look at a variety of news sources (and not just one or two news aggregators),
You can't trust ANY news sources. Edward R Murrow and Walter Cronkite are not around any more.
I have found that Rachel Maddow is one of the best sources. (Although she's a bit controversial because she has liberal views). She always gives a lot of backround to stories and she is amazingly well informed.
Now she only is on once/week-- 9 PM Eastern.
Further, during an afternoon meeting on the Massawa base on October 21, a decision was made to secure intelligence support by reassigning the mission of the operations room, which had been monitoring the movements of al-Islah/Muslim Brotherhood elements along the western coast, to instead serve intelligence support for Israel.
Okay, glad to hear it.