By Nancy A. Youssef, Alexander Ward and Michael R. Gordon
WASHINGTON—Israel provided sensitive intelligence from a human source in Yemen on a key Houthi military operative targeted in an attack described by national security adviser Mike Waltz in an unclassified Signal chat with senior Trump administration officials, two U.S. officials said.
Shortly after the U.S. strikes began, Waltz texted that a key target of the attacks, a Houthi missile expert, had been seen entering his girlfriend’s building, which he said had been destroyed.
Israeli officials have complained privately to U.S. officials that Waltz’s text has become public, one U.S. official said.
Israel’s role in supplying information that helped track the militant highlights the sensitivity of some disclosures in the texts and raises questions about the Trump administration’s contention that no classified information was shared on the Signal chat, a publicly available nongovernmental app.
“The first target—their top missile guy—we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it is now collapsed,” Waltz wrote, without disclosing the source of the information.
Waltz didn’t describe the sources of the intelligence but said in another text that the U.S. has “multiple positive ID.” The U.S. also received intelligence about the targets struck in the attack from surveillance drones flying over Yemen, defense officials said.
Waltz’s post came in response to a question from Vice President JD Vance about the results of the strike that the national security adviser had initially reported in the chat.
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