UAE USED RED SEA MILITARY BASES TO SUPPORT ISRAEL DURING GAZA GENOCIDE, LEAKED DOCUMENT SUGGESTS

Thu 15 January 2026:

A leaked document from October 2023 suggests the United Arab Emirates planned to use military bases across the Red Sea region to support Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

The leaked document, addressed to the Joint Operations Command of the UAE Armed Forces, indicates that Emirati officials intended to provide military, logistical and intelligence assistance to Israel using a network of bases in Yemen, Eritrea and Somalia. The material was obtained and published by the website Emirates Leaks and has circulated widely across regional media.

According to the document, the UAE framed the plan as part of its response to Hamas’s October 7 attack in 2023. One section referred to “the start of the terrorists in Palestine launching attacks against the sister state of Israel,” setting a clear political and military tone. The text repeatedly emphasised the closeness of ties between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv.

The brief explicitly referenced the Abraham Accords, stating: “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.” This framing was used to justify direct operational support through Emirati-controlled facilities.

Red Sea bases

The leaked document identified several UAE-linked military bases in the southern Red Sea region as central to the plan. These included al-Mokha on Yemen’s western coast, Massawa and Assab in Eritrea, and Berbera and Bassa in Somalia. Officials described these locations as key hubs for supporting Israel’s campaign against Hamas.

One directive called for the “rapid preparation and mobilisation of available capabilities” to supply the bases, particularly those in Yemen, “with everything required to support the State of Israel.” The language suggested an accelerated timeline and the extensive use of existing infrastructure.

The document also stated that UAE military officials travelled to the various bases to assess their readiness and suitability for the planned support role. These visits were presented as part of a coordinated effort to ensure the facilities could handle logistics, weapons transfers and intelligence operations.

Weapons transfers

Details in the leaked material pointed to specific decisions made during high-level meetings in mid to late October. On October 19, Emirati Brigadier General Saeed Al-Marzooqi met with Brigadier Tareq Mohammed Abdullah Saleh of the Yemeni resistance at the base operations room in al-Mokha.

During the meeting, the officers agreed to open a communication channel between Yemen’s National Resistance Forces and Israel. They also decided to allocate “all light and medium weapons” and prepare them “technically and logistically for transfer to Israel.”

Two days later, on October 21, a meeting at the Assab base in Eritrea resulted in decisions to provide the base “with all logistical support” and to allocate “all sites on Dahlak Island and the Dahlak Archipelago for the purpose of supplying Israel.”

According to the document, this framework included using the airport to transport supplies to Tel Aviv via helicopters, floating piers and communication stations.

Intelligence support

The documents also outlined plans to expand intelligence cooperation. During another October 21 meeting at the Massawa base, UAE officials decided to reassign the mission of an operations room that had been monitoring Al-Islah, the Yemeni branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, along the western coast.

Instead, the operations room would be repurposed to serve as an intelligence support centre for Israel, signalling a shift away from local monitoring priorities towards direct involvement in Israel’s war effort.

The UAE also sought external assistance. The document stated that Emirati officials requested support from the private US intelligence company Stratfor, which maintains an honorary office at the Massawa base. A Stratfor representative, Ryan Paul, was reportedly present at the meeting.

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Regional tensions

A later section of the document focused on regional dynamics following Hamas’s October 7 attack. It claimed the UAE had carried out “extensive investigations” into what it described as “massive support provided by Qatar to Hamas,” including financial and logistical assistance.

The text said this support was “very substantial” and alleged that assistance from Kuwait was “sufficient to hinder any of our movements along the southern Red Sea.” Kuwait was later described as “among the parties hostile to [the UAE],” language that underscored growing regional tensions.

The documents concluded by stating that all support to Israel would continue “until the terrorists in Palestine are defeated.”

Emirates Leaks said the material demonstrated “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.”

You can download and read the leaked document here.

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