Overview
- U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee said Israel sent Iron Dome batteries to the United Arab Emirates along with personnel to help operate them.
- Iron Dome is Israel’s short-range air defense that intercepts rockets and drones before they strike cities, oil sites, or bases.
- Huckabee said Israel–UAE cooperation in military, security, and intelligence work reached a new high during the war.
- The Israeli think tank INSS assessed that the UAE, after Israel, was hit hardest by Iranian rocket and drone attacks.
- The Wall Street Journal reported the UAE carried out a retaliatory strike in April on an Iranian refinery on Lavan Island.