Trump informed the Secretary of State Marco Rubio before the cameras, telling him to spread the news that the US would stop bombarding the Yemen
The US will stop bombarding the Yemen “immediately,” said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday in the White House, highlighting his preference, shocked and admired, for revealing political decisions.
Trump said the Houthis in Yemen said to the US on Monday night that “they don’t want to fight anymore, they just don’t want to fight.”
“We will honor this. Let’s stop the bombings,” said Trump.
Oman confirmed Trump’s statement that the Houthis agreed to stop attacking ships in the Red Sea.
“In the future, none of the sides will attack the other, including US vessels, in the Red Sea and the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and the quiet flow of international commercial transport,” wrote Oman’s Minister of Badr Al-Busaidi in X. He said Oman was mediating between the US and Hethis.
The surprise announcement seems to have caught diplomats and US defense officials who work in the uncommon yamen, according to three active authorities who talked to Middle East Eye. They said they were not warned of the announcement.
Trump also seemed to force the end of a major US military campaign in the Middle East with his secretary of state and national security counselor Marco Rubio.
“Marco, you will let everyone know that,” Trump told Rubio in the Oval Hall. “Do you have anything to say about it? It’s a very important ad.”
Trump made no mention of Israel, although the announcement was made a few days after a Houthi ballistic missile hit a parking lot near Terminal Três at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, causing a wave of shock throughout Israel.
The Houthis began to attack Israel in what they said were solidarity with the Palestinians besieged in Gaza after Israel responded to the attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023 with a horrible enclave attack and attacks on Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen.
The Houthis focused most of their ships attack on the Red Sea, first aiming at Israel -related vessels and then global transport ships linked to the West.
The attacks catapulted the Houthis to prominence throughout the Middle East and in the Muslim world.
The Houthis received support from Iran, but other US enemies also noticed their attacks on a critical waterway. Russia has sent military counselors to help Hethis refine their targets, the Mee revealed. China would also have provided intelligence information to the group.
Trump said the Houthis agreed to stop “exploding ships” and “accepts their word.”
Opposition to a wider war
The interruption of US attacks will sigh of relief to the Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia, who led a campaign of years to remove the Houthis from power in a wide range of Yemen, but then agreed with a truce in 2022. Kingdom efforts to reach a political agreement with Hethis were complicated by US attacks.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have acted to prevent the US from using their bases or airspace to attack the Houthis, US defense officials told the group’s reprisals.
Trump should visit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar next week.
The interruption of US attacks occurs at a time when Israel bombard the Yemen. On Tuesday, Israel bombed the main airport of Yemen.
The US began to bombard the Houthis during the Biden government, but Trump greatly intensified the campaign.
Human rights workers, humanitarian agents, and Arab diplomats whose countries border the Yemen have expressed shock to the mee with the devastation caused by US attacks.
An American attack on a migrant center in Saada province in northern Yemen last month killed at least 68 people. The center had already been hit by a coalition of Arab states that fought the Houthis, led by Saudi Arabia.
The attacks raised questions about US segmentation. Also arose allegations that the US would be using open source intelligence amateur accounts in X to select target packages.
But perhaps the most important for Trump is that the bombing campaign in Yemen has become an internal political issue.
Yemen summarizes how Trump has struggled to reconcile his foreign policy “America First” and his promise to end the wars abroad with his aggressive instincts.
On Tuesday morning, before Trump announced the campaign’s freezing alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carnery, one of Trump’s greatest advocates in Congress published a critique of the campaign.
“I have never seen a Houthi. Not anyone I know,” wrote Republican Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene at X.
“But what everyone knows is that, for some reason, we do not attack the true enemy that kills Americans every day. No, we have to flee and bombard some country somewhere else in the world because they tell us they are the bad guys,” she wrote.
Greene also launched an attack on Russia and Iran’s hawks, suggesting that Iran would not represent a threat to the US if it had nuclear weapons.
“People just don’t care anymore because none of these things really affected our lives,” she said.
Originally published by Mee on 06/05/2025
Por Sean Mathews
Source: https://www.ocafezinho.com/2025/05/06/trump-anuncia-fim-dos-bombardeios-no-iemen-acreditando-na-palavra-dos-houthis/
