Local Editor

"Israel" has offered to provide Saudi Arabia with its Iron Dome missile system in order for the Saudi military to employ it on the border region with Yemen, according to a recent report on Saturday.

According to a report by the Arabic-language newspaper Rai al-Youmon on Saturday, the offer was made recently last week during meetings between Saudis and "Israelis" at the US embassy in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

Another report published by the Arabic website of "Israeli" radio station Voice of "Israel" on May 19 said that diplomats from certain Arab counties that do not have open diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime had a secret meeting with "Israeli" officials in Jordan.

During the purported meeting, the Arab representatives expressed their relevant states’ interest in cooperating with "Israel" over "security" matters in the Middle East.

According to the UK-based Rai al-Youm, it said that Saudi Arabia has purportedly rejected the "Israeli" offer.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Jordanian government said that he had no knowledge of the meetings at the US embassy in Amman.

Iron Dome is a short-range missile system designed to intercept rockets and artillery shells fired from a range of four to 70 kilometers.

The report comes as Saudi Arabia continues the bombardment of Yemeni towns and cities in its ongoing deadly US-led military aggression against Yemen.

Saudi Arabia began the US-led military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.