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Israel provided intel for US strike on Houthi official mentioned in Signal chat — WSJ

27 March 2025, 8:54 pm 18 Edit
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks with the media following meetings with a Ukrainian delegation in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 11, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks with the media following meetings with a Ukrainian delegation in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 11, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel provided intelligence from a human source in Yemen about a senior Houthi figure who was targeted in the American airstrike that US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser discussed in a group chat on the Signal messaging app, the Wall Street Journal reports.

A US official quoted in the report says Israeli officials have privately complained that the texts were exposed, after Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to the group.

The text in question says: “Typing too fast. The first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

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