US President Donald Trump revealed this evening the authority that informed him of the surrender of the Houthi militia as he put it, indicating that it is a “very good source.”
This came in the absence of any statement by the Houthi militia about the Trump advertisement.
Trump announced this evening, Tuesday, in a sudden statement that the United States will immediately stop military activity against the Houthi militia in Yemen.
“The Houthis said they do not want war, so we will accept their offer, and we stop bombing Yemen,” Trump said in a White House statement.
In addition to the suspension of the operation, and in light of the US President’s visit to the Middle East next week, Trump announced that “we will have a very big advertisement before visiting the Middle East.”
He added: “The advertisement will be very positive. We will present it on Thursday, Friday, or Monday before the trip. ”
The Houthis began targeting ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in late 2023, in a move that they said was to support the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip destroyed by the war between Hamas and the Israeli army, which ignited an unprecedented attack by the movement on the lands of the Hebrew state on October 7 of that year.
“The Houthis declared (…) that they no longer want to fight,” Trump said on Tuesday. They simply do not want to fight anymore, and we will honor it. We will stop the bombing, and they surrendered. ”
He continued, “They say that they will not detonate a ships anymore, and this is … the goal of what we were doing,” explaining that the information came from “a very good source.”
The Houthi attacks paralyzed the movement of navigation through the Suez Canal, which is a vital water artery through which about 12% of the global navigation movement usually passes, forcing many companies to resort to alternative roads assigned to the head of good hope in South Africa.
The Houthi regions in Yemen have been subjected to almost daily raids since Washington announced on March 15 to launch a military operation against them to stop their attacks in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The American operations against the Houthis began in early 2024 during the era of President Joe Biden.
Last week, the US military announced that, since mid -March, it targeted more than a thousand locations in Yemen as part of an operation called “Rav Ryder”.
