As the White House struggles to navigate the Signal chat leak scandal, a bombshell report suggested that Israel provided sensitive intelligence to the US in its recent operations against Houthis in Yemen. According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Israel gathered sensitive information from a human source in Yemen and described it to US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in an unclassified Signal chat with other officials from US President Donald Trump’s administration.
Shortly after the US strike began in Yemen, Waltz texted in the chat that a key target of the attacks, a Houthi missile expert, was located entering “his girlfriend’s” building, which he mentioned was destroyed in the strikes. A US official close to the matter told WSJ that following the leak, Israeli officials have privately complained to the US officials that Waltz’s texts have become public.
The latest information that Israel reportedly helped the US to track Houthi militants in Yemen highlights the sensitivity of some of the disclosures in the group chat. The report is also coming at a time when almost all Trump officials have held the contention that no classified information was shared on the Signal chat, a publicly available nongovernmental app.
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