The U.S. announced a truce with Yemen on Tuesday.
President Trump said this in the Oval Office: “We will stop the bombings. They have capitulated… we will take their word that they will not be blowing up ships anymore, and that’s the purpose of what we were doing.”
A spokesman for the Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, said this about the truce: “Our military operations in support of Gaza will not cease until the aggression against Gaza stops and the blockade on its residents is lifted, allowing the entry of food, medicine, and fuel. As for our attacks on the US, they fall within the context of the right to self-defense. If it halts its attacks on us, we will halt our attacks on it. This position also applies to Britain. We are committed to our operations in support of Gaza, regardless of the sacrifices it costs us. If the US persists with its operations in support of the Zionist entity, even if they are immoral, the only way to stop the war and avoid escalation is for the US to pressure Netanyahu to respect the terms of the ceasefire agreement. At that point, we will halt all our military operations in the Red Sea and deep within the Zionist entity.”
In other words, Yemen is still focused on stopping Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip and they hope the U.S. will influence Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to enforce a ceasefire.
Israel was not a party to this truce so it will continue to bomb Yemen. Israel bombed the main international airport in the Yemeni capital of Sana‘s on Tuesday in retaliation for the attack on the airport in Tel Aviv.
