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The United States agrees with Houthis in Yemen after dozens of you have been killed in air raids Yemen

The United States will hire its bomb campaign against Yemen Houthis after the Iran has agreed to end the focus on shipping in the Red Sea.

He -announced by the US President Donald Trump during an Oval Office meeting with Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, came to a day when Israel claimed that his jets had the main airport of Jemens, including three civil aircraft on Sunday, for a rocket attack on the Perimeter Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport.

“The Houthis have announced … that they no longer want to fight. They just don't want to fight. And we will honor and we will stop the bombings and they have surrendered,” said Trump. He provided minimal details on the agreement and denied that he had completed a deal.

“We have just learned about it. I think that's very, very positive … I will accept your word and we will stop the bomb attack … immediately effective,” he said.

Oman, who conveyed contacts between the USA and the Houthis, confirmed that the deal, which it was said, would ensure the “freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea.

Oman Secretary of State Badr Al-Buidi said: “After the recent discussions and contacts … With the aim of the de-escalation, the efforts have led to an armistice agreement between the two sides.”

“No side is aimed at the other … the freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial freedom of shipping in the Red Sea,” he added in a explanation published online.

There was no official comment from the Houthis, but the political leader of the rebels, Mahdi al-Mashat, said the attacks against Israel were continued.

Houthi's reaction “would go beyond what the Israeli enemy can withstand,” said Mashat in an explanation.

The agreement with the USA follows a recently carried out sharp intensification of air strikes for Yemen, including the participation of British armed forces last week. Some of these strikes claimed civilian life and those of Houthi fighter.

The Houthis shot in Israel and in the Red Sea since Israel began his military offensive against Hamas in Gaza after the fatal attack by the Palestinian militant group was stimulated on October 7, 2023 in Israel.

The Trump administration started its operation in mid -March and significantly increased the number of air strikes against Yemen after a campaign of temporary strikes.

Since then, the US military has said that “over 1,000 goals” and claims to have killed Houthi fighter and leader in Yemen, including the officials of Houthi rockets and UAV officers and the humiliation of their skills “.

There were a number of reported civilian deaths, including last week when local officials said that the United States had met an internment camp for nationals in African countries in Saada and reports at least 68 people.

A raid on April 18 on Ras Isa Fuel Port also killed at least 80 people and wounded 150 more.

The Trump government has claimed that the strikes are self-defense in response to Houthi strikes to US commercial and naval vessels. You have denied that the six -week campaign requires the consent of the congress.

Attacks by the Houthis have prevented the ships from getting through the Suez channel – an important route that usually shows about 12% of global shipping traffic.

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The tensions between the Houthis and Israel – against which the group started with the attack – have been high since the beginning of the Gaza Council, but have continued to rose, since a Houthi rocket near Israel Ben Gurion Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday at Israel Airport on Tuesday at Yemen Airport at Yemen Airport on Monday at Yemen Airport on Tuesday on Tuesday Airport Yemen landed at the airport at the airport on Tuesday at the airport.

The UN special representative for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said that the strikes carried out on both sides are “a difficult escalation in an already fragile and fleeting regional context”.

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in Hodeidah. Photo: Al-Masirsah TV/EPA

The Israeli military claimed on Tuesday that his air raid on Yemen's main airport deactivated it.

“The strike was carried out in response to the attack by Houthi Terrorist Regime against Ben Gurion Airport,” said the Israeli military in a statement.

“Flight roads, planes and infrastructure at the airport were hit,” added.

A Yemeni official said that the airport was “completely destroyed” by the strikes.

“Three out of seven aircraft from the Yemenian airlines were destroyed at Sana'a Airport and the international airport Sana'a was completely destroyed,” said the official.

Israel's Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that the strike was to be seen as a warning to the “head of Iranian ink meat”, of which he said that he had direct responsibility for attacks by Houthis against Israel.

The Al-Masirah television station, belonged by Houthi, said three people were killed and 38 people were wounded in the air raids at the airport as well as in a cement factory and the Haziz power plant.

AP, Reuters and AFP contributed to this report

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