Trump says Houthis will halt attacks on commercial vessels, prompting US to stop strikes – Middle East Monitor

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that Yemen’s hutis rebels have reported that the White House will not carry out additional attacks against commercial ships, saying that the United States corresponds to stopping the attacks against Yemen, Anadolu informs.

“We will take their word. They say they are no longer flying ships, and that is the purpose of what we were,” Trump told reporters while receiving Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the White House. “We will honor that and stop the bombings.”

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, also said that US attacks were always trying to establish the freedom of navigation for international shipping in the region, and that work was to make that stop, and if we can stop. “

Yemen has faced an American military campaign intensified since mid -March, including around 1,300 air and naval attacks, resulting in hundreds of civilian victims, according to the hutis.

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The group has addressed the ships that pass through the red and Arab seas, the Bab Al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in what they say is solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where more than 52,600 people have been killed, most of them women and children, during the course of the Israel War.

The group stopped the attacks when Gaza’s fire was declared a stop in January between Israel and Hamas, but resumed them after the renewed air attacks in Israel in Gaza in March.

The tensions intensified in the following months with the hutis launching an important missile attack against Israel that arrived at its main international airport on Sunday.

Israel retaliates by hitting several sites controlled by Houthi in Yemen, including the critical port in Hodeidah and a nearby cement factory. At least three people died and another 35 wounds in Israeli strikes, according to Al-Masirah television administered by Houthi.

The Hutis called the missile strike at Ben Gurion airport a “warning” to international airlines that Israeli airport is “insecure for civil aviation.”

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