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Houthis Send Missiles And Drones After Sisi Seeks Mandate To Support Saudi Arabia

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Houthis fired missiles and drones in response to Sisi's request for parliamentary mandate. Parliament postponed authorization as Egypt pursues a diplomatic solution in Yemen.

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Three headlines present potential Egyptian military support for Saudi Arabia as undecided, while two analysis headlines use Egypt’s past Yemen intervention as a warning. Diplomacy and parliamentary deliberation appear within the reporting, but no headline says a new Egyptian intervention has begun.

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  • جريدة القدسthe Parliament postpones the authorization of military intervention
  • جريدة المغربWhat lies behind Sisi’s mandate to support Saudi Arabia
  • Reutersparliament weighs military support to Saudi Arabia
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Egypt’s potential military support for Saudi Arabia remains under debate

These reporting and opinion headlines describe parliamentary authorisation or Egypt’s possible support as a live question. They do not report that a new Egyptian intervention has begun.

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Analysis headlines invoke Egypt’s costly history in Yemen

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One headline poses a “second catastrophe?” as a question linked to the Houthis’ warning; the other calls for a return to the history of Egypt’s bitter intervention. Both use historical costs as a cautionary lens, not proof that Egypt has decided to intervene.

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Sisi seeks mandate

President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi announced Egypt's readiness to provide military support to Saudi Arabia and asked Parliament to grant him a mandate, and the Houthis responded by sending their missiles and drones for weeks to target vital interests in the Kingdom from airports and oil facilities. The Houthis warned Cairo against military intervention in Yemen, considering such a step could lead Egypt to a 'second catastrophe', and the warning recalled the experience of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser with Yemen in the 1960s.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said Cairo places utmost priority on exploring all available opportunities to reach a diplomatic solution that ends the ongoing conflict in Yemen. The Egyptian presidency confirmed that any military move would be limited to defending Saudi Arabian territory and borders and would not include launching attacks on Yemen, after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that the entry of new parties into the conflict would make settlement 'more difficult.'

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Parliament delays vote

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for an emergency parliamentary session to discuss providing military support to the Kingdom in facing the Houthis, and the National Defense Council approved providing military and defensive support to the Kingdom. The Egyptian presidency said the nature of any potential deployment remained unclear, while Parliament postponed the vote on Sunday and Monday and set October 26 to decide the matter.

Well-informed sources said the Egyptian Parliament decided to postpone the vote on authorizing the army to intervene militarily to October 26, and the postponement aimed to give MPs a broader opportunity for deliberations. Yahya Ali al-Rai, head of the Houthis' House of Representatives, warned against the consequences of any new Egyptian military intervention in the Yemeni crisis and urged the Egyptian Parliament to reject the proposed mandate.

Reporting for this sectionEuronews

Defensive scope and stakes

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, accompanied by Major General Hassan Rashad, traveled to Riyadh with a written message from the Egyptian president to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman focused on ways to strengthen joint defensive cooperation between the two countries. Abdelatty stressed the need to explore all political solutions that guarantee the Houthis withdraw from the areas they had recently controlled, while he said progress on the political track must go hand in hand with supporting the Kingdom's defense track.

The Egyptian call to action described a defensive mandate to take defensive measures to protect Saudi Arabia and to provide "all forms of support to safeguard its capabilities, stability, and territorial integrity." The mandate, if approved, was framed as legal cover for Cairo to act according to battlefield developments while ruling out direct ground engagements inside Yemen, and the sources tied the decision to the heavy memory of Egypt's 1960s intervention under Gamal Abdel Nasser described as the "Vietnam of Egypt".