{"id":644661,"date":"2026-10-13T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644661\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T01:46:09","slug":"netanyahu-seeks-saudi-approval-for-israeli-strikes-on-houthis-in-yemen-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/644661\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Seeks Saudi Approval For Israeli Strikes On Houthis In Yemen &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for Israel to be allowed to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, according to a diplomatic source quoted by Haaretz on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Saudi Arabia looks to allies for support amid deadly Houthi attacks\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_69831337558.jpg\"\/>Saudi Arabia looks to allies for support amid deadly Houthi attacks<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">According to the report, Netanyahu is pushing through US mediators to secure Saudi Arabia&#8217;s permission for Israel to intervene in the decade-old conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The goal is for Israel to &#8220;join forces&#8221; with Saudi Arabia and develop the relationship to pave the way for a future normalization agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">However, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been reluctant to permit Israeli intervention in the war, reportedly believing that it would play poorly with the Saudi public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">MBS serves as the kingdom&#8217;s prime minister in addition to serving as crown prince which means that, without his approval, Israel is unlikely to receive permission to enter the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Netanyahu has repeatedly stated his goal of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia, and the October 7 attacks are believed to have been an attempt by Hamas to disrupt any normalization agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Saudi Arabia has repeatedly stated that it would only normalize relations with Israel following the establishment of a Palestinian state, something Netanyahu has pledged to prevent in recent election campaign statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for Israel to be allowed to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-644661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}