{"id":3375,"date":"2026-10-27T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2026-10-27T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:03:53","slug":"houthis-say-egypts-military-support-for-saudi-arabia-declaration-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"Houthis say Egypt\u2019s military support for Saudi Arabia \u2018declaration of war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A Houthi official said on Tuesday that the Egyptian parliament\u2019s decision to authorise military support for Saudi Arabia to defend against the Iran-backed group\u2019s attacks was a declaration of war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEgypt and its parliament declared support for what is called the defence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in doing so, it declares war against the Republic of Yemen,\u201d said Mohammed Ali Al Houthi, a member of the Houthis\u2019 political bureau, in a Telegram post.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthi decision came after Egypt\u2019s parliament authorised the country\u2019s military to provide support to help defend Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The move could push Cairo directly into the regional conflict \u200bthat has expanded with intensified attacks by Yemen\u2019s Houthis on the Gulf kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s President \u200cAbdel Fattah El Sisi had asked parliament last week to approve defending its Gulf Arab ally and the world\u2019s biggest oil exporter if Riyadh requests help against the Houthis, whose advances also threaten the strategic Bab El Mandeb Strait \u2014 a gateway to Egypt\u2019s Suez \u200bCanal.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has frequently condemned Iranian and Iranian-backed attacks on Gulf countries but has not publicly \u200bengaged in direct combat or joined the Makkah mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia, \u2060Pakistan and Turkiye that was signed in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Houthi official said on Tuesday that the Egyptian parliament\u2019s decision to authorise military support for Saudi Arabia to defend against the Iran-backed group\u2019s attacks was a declaration of war. \u201cEgypt and its parliament declared support for what is called the defence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in doing so, it declares war against the Republic of Yemen,\u201d said Mohammed Ali Al Houthi, a member of the Houthis\u2019 political bureau, in a Telegram post. The Houthi decision came after Egypt\u2019s parliament authorised the country\u2019s military to provide support&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}