The president of the United States, Donald Trumphe said that he will order the cessation of almost two months of Air attacks against the Yemen hutisaffirming that the rebels backed by Iran have indicated that “They don’t want to keep fighting” and have pledged to stop attacking navigation in the Red Sea. “We are going to stop the bombings against the Hutis, with immediate effect,” Trump said at the beginning of his meeting in the Oval Office with Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Trump said the hutis had “capitulated but, more importantly, we will take the floor that They say they won’t fly ships. And that is the purpose of what we were doing, “said the US president and added:” I think that is very positive, “he said:” They were demolishing many ships. “
Los Hutis rebels They started to attack ships in the Red Sea who believed they had links with Israel shortly after the start of the War in Gaza In October 2023, in attacks that said they were in solidarity with the Palestinians.
From November 2023 to January 2025, The hutisThey attacked more than 100 ships merchants with missiles and unmanned planes, sinking two and killing four sailors. This reduced the commercial flow through the Red Sea corridor, which usually circulates merchandise worth one billion dollars (882,000 million euros).
Asked about how the hutis had communicated who wanted to stop being the objective of the United States, Donald Trump gave few details, just saying that the information came from a “very good source.”
Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi confirmed that the American air campaign was ending, publishing in X that the discussions involving Washington and Muscat, as well as negotiators in Yemen, “have given rise to A high fire agreement Between the two parties “adding that:” In the future, none of the parties will aim to the other, including US ships, in the Red Sea and the Bab to Mandab Strait, guaranteeing the Freedom of navigation and the fluidity of international commercial navigation. “
In a statement, The hutis said that their position regarding Gaza had not changed and that his “initial understanding” with the United States would not affect their support for the Palestinians. In the statement it was not clear if they agreed with the agreement with the United States.
The intensification of the American campaign of air attacks began in March, when Trump promised to use an “overwhelming lethal force” after the hutíes said that the Attacks against Israeli ships that navigate in front of Yemen in response to Israeli block of the Gaza Strip. At that time, they described that the warning affected the Red Sea, the Gulf of Adén, the Bab El-Mandeb Strait and the Arabic Sea.
The announcement of the White House occurred on the same day that the Israeli army launched offensives against the hutis that, he said, had completely unusable the capital’s international airport, Saná. Israel’s attacks were his second round of aerial aggressions against goals in Yemen in retaliation for an attack with Houthi missiles on Sunday near the main Israel airport.
The cost of the American operation
The price of American ammunition used against the objectives of the Hutis rebels in Yemen in daily attacks since March 15 has risen to More than 750 million dollars (660 million euros)according to an American official.
The Trump administration has launched more than 2,000 ammunition Against 1,000 objectives, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details about the attacks.
The total It is just a fraction of the total costs of the operation. It does not take into account the operating costs of two carriers, the warships that accompany them or the flight hours of the airplanes. Nor does it include the destruction for the hutis of seven American-manned MQ-9 Reaper planes, with a cost of more than 30 million dollars (26 million euros) each, nor the loss of a f/a-18 hunt and a tug of the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier when it maneuvered to avoid a Houthi missile and the plane fell from the aircraft carrier.
Although Trump framed the agreement as a way to reopen the red sea to commercial navigation without fear of an hutí attack, “The hutis have not triggered a commercial ship since December”He said at X Gregory Brew, senior analyst at the Risk Analysis Firm Eurasia Group. “However, they are likely to continue shooting against Israel,” Brew said.
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