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President Donald Trump made a surprise on Tuesday that the United States would hire the bombing of the Houthis in Yemen, which insisted that the rebel group had agreed to no longer attack the US ships in the Red Sea.
“At least they announced to us that they no longer want to fight,” said Trump during a photo surgery Oval Office with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “You just don’t want to fight and we will honor that.”
“And they surrendered,” he added. “But what is more important, you will – we will take your word. You say you will no longer hunt ships.”
This picture from the video provided by the US Navy shows a plane that starts on March 15, 2025 in front of air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Yemen, Yemen, in the Red Sea.
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The movement covers weeks of costly attacks and threats to the Trump government, which led to a great grant from the president’s national security team.
A spokesman for the Oman Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the announcement in an X post on Tuesday.
“After the recent discussions and contacts, which were led by the Sultanate Oman with the United States and the responsible authorities in Sana’a in the Republic of Yemen, the efforts with the aim of de -escalation have led to a ceasefire between the two sides,” said the Oman’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the explanation.
“In the future, no page will address the others, including American ships, in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab-Straße, to secure the freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping,” added.
Mohammed Ali Al Houthi, a member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, said that the Houthis does not immediately agree with the American ceasefire.
The Houthis “evaluate” the US ceasefire proposal “in front of the ground”, he created on the X Tuesday afternoon.
Us Central Command moved to the White House when asked by ABC News to receive further information about the announcement.
Trump was pressed by reporters to get more details about how the deal came together with the Houthis, but he quickly said that the announcement was not a business.
President Donald Trump speaks when he meets the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 6, 2025.
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“You said: ‘Please no longer bomb for us and we won’t attack your ships,” he said.
When asked who said the United States that the Houthi attacks on US ships would stop, Trump was released, said it “didn’t matter” and then added that it came from a “very, very good source”.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance laughed and said they agreed.
“They no longer want to be bombarded,” repeated Trump.
Rubio added that “this was always a mission of freedom of navigation”.
“As you know, these guys are a group of people with advanced weapons that threaten global shipping,” he said. “And the task was to stop.”
The United States started air strikes in Yemen against Houthi goals on March 15 and, according to the US military, carried out over 800 strikes.
On April 18, an American strike killed at least 74 people on the harbor of Rasa Fuel and wounded 171 other known attack by the American campaign.
However, the US military also scored a few hits.
The US military has lost seven Reaper drones since March 15, each drone cost $ 30 million, and an F/A-18E fighter aircraft rolled from the Airplane of the USS Harry S. Truman two weeks ago and sank to the bottom of the Red Sea. Nobody was killed in this incident.
The USS Harry S. Truman may have made a sudden movement due to Houthi fire, which ultimately led to the fighter plane rolling it, according to a US official, who cited the first field reports. The incident is still being examined, but the aircraft carrier was previously targeted by the Houthis.
In this March 16, 2025, the Yemeni people, which swept Yemeni people from their houses and shops from their houses and shops, swept after the capital Sana’a and other provinces in Sana’a, Yemen.
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Israeli forces have also carried out strikes against Yemen in the past two days and met their main port on the Red Sea, two cement factories and at Sanaa Airport.
The Israeli government said that these strikes were on Sunday in response to Houthi strikes to Israel, and the Israeli defense forces stated that Houthi infrastructure in Yemen aimed in the strikes.
While Trump was a mission of “Freedom of Navigation” from the start, the US mission against the Houthis has been the conflict in the Red Sea between the Houthis and the American and British ships since October 8, 2023.
The Houthis said they would attack ships associated with the allies of Israel to support the Palestinian people in Gaza after Israel launched a military operation against Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Since then, the Houthis have had the ships in the past 19 months, of which they say they are associated with the allies in the Israel in the Red Sea into a different severity with a different severity. The US conflict rose three days before Israel with the temporary ceasefire with Hamas and resumed the military operations in Gaza on March 18. The United States started its first strike against Houthis on March 5.
The Trump administration spent weeks to save the face of their own planning of attacks in Yemen after it became known that the top members of national security, including the then national security advisor Mike Waltz and defense minister Pete Hegseth, announced plans for the upcoming signal attacks.
The editor-in-chief of Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally invited to one of the signal group chats and saw details about planning.
Last week Trump announced that Waltz would leave his cabinet position and be nominated as a US ambassador to the United Nations.
AMED BAIDER from ABC News contributed to this report.