{"id":648850,"date":"2026-10-17T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648850\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:12:10","slug":"donald-trump-says-saudi-arabia-may-accept-israeli-help-fighting-houthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/648850\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia may accept Israeli help fighting Houthis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-election-2026\/article-911903\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> told reporters on Friday that Saudi Arabia would likely accept assistance from Israel in its fight against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, adding that efforts to bring the kingdom into the Abraham Accords could be revived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they will do it. Absolutely,\u201d Trump said when asked whether he had spoken with Saudi Arabia about the possibility. \u201cIsrael has been very helpful to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-911792\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>, and yes, they would certainly do it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Trump also expressed confidence that the Abraham Accords could gain renewed momentum with Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cPerhaps more than ever,\u201d Trump said when asked whether the accords were back on the table with the kingdom.\u201cThe Abraham Accords are one of our greatest achievements, and yes, I would say perhaps now more than ever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cBut Saudi Arabia is very happy to receive support from Israel and from us,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Saudi Arabia has not established diplomatic relations with Israel, and the kingdom&#8217;s potential participation in the Abraham Accords has remained a major goal of Trump&#8217;s Middle East policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The comments came as the Houthis intensified attacks against Saudi Arabia. The Houthis struck Saudi Arabia&#8217;s presidential palace complex on Thursday, killing five, and in a separate attack struck Riyadh&#8217;s King Khalid International Airport, killing 17 and injuring over 300.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that Saudi Arabia would likely accept assistance from Israel in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[83,54,8954,85,46,43,78,1032],"class_list":["post-648850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abraham-accords","tag-donald-trump","tag-houthis","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648850","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=648850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}