Shiite Houthi rebels seized ["]Israeli["]-made weapons from the Saudi Arabian embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa Saturday, according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency. The...[Houthis] discovered the ["]Israeli["] weapons along with US plans to construct a military base in Saudi Arabia to monitor the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, the ["]Jerusalem Post["] reported.

The rebels explored the embassy after overtaking its guards during heavy fighting. Saudi Arabia allegedly requested ["]Israel["] to provide "state-of-the-art weapons to supply the terrorist groups in Yemen," Iranian media claimed. "The Saudis are using ["]Israeli["] weapons in their raids on Yemen," ["]Haaretz["] quoted Yemeni army commander Taher Rasoul Zadami as saying.

...Houthi fighters captured Sanaa in September and seized the presidential palace in January, forcing Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to resign. The conflict has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Saudi forces began airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in March... Saudi Arabia seeks to restore Hadi to power.

["]Israel["] and Saudi Arabia have quietly cooperated on certain intelligence and security matters in recent years. "The changes that the Middle East has experienced in recent years have created a set of joint interests between the two ["]countries["]," Michal Yaari, an expert on Saudi foreign policy and a lecturer at the Open University, told the ["]Jerusalem Post["]. "The biggest enemy for both ["]countries["] is Iran."...

Source: internationalbusinesstimes