Later, the text detailed high-level meetings among UAE military officials in October. For example, on October 19, Emirati Brig.-Gen. Saeed al-Marzooqi, assistant to the first commander of the Emirati forces in Yemen, met with Brig. Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh of the Yemeni resistance in the headquarters of the base operations room in al-Mokha, Yemen.
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.”
Included in this framework was “the airport for transporting supplies to Tel Aviv by helicopters, floating piers, and communication stations.”
They also decided, per the leaked documents, to transport 27 of their modern tanks stationed at the base to Tel Aviv via designated ships and to supply Israel with phosphorus missiles stored in the base’s warehouses.
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.
The UAE also requested assistance from the private US intelligence company Stratfor, which maintains an honorary office at the base. A Stratfor representative, Ryan Paul, was present at the meeting.
The documents assert that all support to Israel would continue “until the terrorists in Palestine are defeated.”
Commenting on the documents, Emirati Leaks said they reveal “an unprecedented level of direct Emirati military involvement in supporting Israel during its war on Gaza, using a network of bases that spans one of the world’s most important sea lanes.”
