Leaked files reveal secret Israel-Arab military alliance build under United States watch while Israel was massively bombing Gaza – The Washington Post revealed.
The documents show how Arab countries secretly training with Israeli forces for years, all under Washington’s nose.
The files reportedly reveal a quiet network linking Israel with 6 Arab nations: Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, through U.S. Central Command’s “Regional Security Construct.”
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The group met from 2022 to 2025 for joint drills on air defense, tunnel warfare, and countering Iran’s influence.
Meetings took place in places like Bahrain, Egypt, and even Qatar’s al-Udeid Air Base, where Israeli officers were flown in quietly to avoid public outrage.
GLOBAL TRACKER recalled that Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to the first phase of a peace framework that would result in the release of all the hostages held by Hamas and a partial Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. U.S. officials announced on Thursday that 200 U.S. troops would be sent to Israel to provide support to the ceasefire agreement, and would be joined by soldiers from several of the Arab countries that participated in this long-standing security cooperation.
The Washington Post also report that even before that announcement, the Arab countries involved in this security collaboration had all signaled their support for Trump’s 20-point plan to end the Gaza war.
The plan calls for Arab states to participate in the deployment of an international force to Gaza that would train a new Palestinian police force in the region.
The newspaper also revealed that in a joint statement, five of the six Arab countries said that they supported the establishment of a mechanism that “guarantees the security of all sides,” but they have stopped short of publicly committing to deploy military forces.
Qatar, whose capital was struck on Sept. 9 by Israeli missiles targeting Hamas leaders, was one of the countries that had quietly strengthened ties with the Israeli military.
In May 2024, the documents show, senior Israeli and Arab military officials convened at al-Udeid Air Base, a major U.S. military facility in Qatar. A planning document for the event, written two days before it was set to begin, shows that the Israeli delegation was scheduled to fly directly to the air base, circumventing Qatar’s civilian points of entry that could have risked public exposure.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Qatar on Sept. 29 for the strike, after prompting from the Trump administration, and pledged not to conduct such attacks in the future.
The documents show that the threat posed by Iran was the driving force behind the closer ties, which have been fostered by the U.S. military’s Central Command, known as Centcom. One document describes Iran and its allied militias as the “Axis of Evil,” and another includes a map with missiles superimposed over Gaza and Yemen, where Iranian allies hold power.
Five Centcom PowerPoint presentations, obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and reviewed by The Washington Post, detail the creation of what the U.S. military describes as the “Regional Security Construct.” In addition to Israel and Qatar, the construct includes Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The documents refer to Kuwait and Oman as “potential partners” that were briefed on all meetings.
SOURCE: WASHINGTON POST AND MEGATRON_RON