Houthis to halt Israel, Red Sea attacks if Gaza truce comes into force

Spokesman al-Bukhaiti says Houthis volition halt operations successful enactment of Gaza erstwhile truce comes into effect connected Sunday.

Houthi rebels person backed the Gaza ceasefire agreement reached betwixt Israel and Hamas, with the Yemeni group’s spokesperson saying they volition halt their subject operations against Israel arsenic good arsenic commercialized ships successful the Red Sea if the truce comes into unit connected Sunday.

“If Israel stops the aggression successful Gaza, and if the US, UK and Israel halt the aggression against Yemen, the Houthis volition halt their operations, including attacks against navies and commercialized ships,” Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told Al Jazeera connected Saturday.

The UK and the United States person carried retired numerous strikes connected targets wrong Yemen to deter the Houthis. Washington besides slapped sanctions connected the radical linked to Iran.

Israel, however, continues to termination women and children [in Gaza], truthful the Houthis were forced to motorboat a rocket attack, helium said, seemingly referring to the rocket onslaught launched earlier connected Saturday.

The Israeli service said it intercepted 2 missiles launched towards Israel from Yemen successful the greeting and the afternoon. The 1 successful the greeting targeted cardinal Israel, portion the 2nd was launched towards the southbound of the country, subject statements said.

The Houthis besides announced they had fired a rocket towards cardinal Israel successful the morning. They had repeatedly asserted that they would halt their attacks if Israel halted its subject violative successful Gaza. The 15 months of nonstop Israeli bombardment has killed much than 46,000 Palestinians and turned Gaza into rubble.

Israel has bombed Houthi-controlled ports, including the Hodeidah larboard considered a lifeline for the war-torn nation, and powerfulness plants.

Houthi attacks backing Palestinians

The radical has been launching rockets towards Israel since October 2024, successful what they accidental is simply a amusement of solidarity with Palestinians successful Gaza. The Houthi rebels besides targeted navies and commercialized ships linked to Israel and its allies passing done Bab al-Mandeb successful the Red Sea, disrupting planetary trade.

Israel justified its devastating subject violative saying it was aimed astatine defeating the Hamas equipped group, which carried retired an onslaught wrong Israel connected October 7, 2023, that killed astir 1,100 people. The Palestinian fighters besides took immoderate 250 radical captive.

But Israel was accused of warfare crimes and waging a genocidal warfare against Palestinians by rights groups. The International Court of Justice successful February 2024 said the Israeli violative “plausibly” amounted to genocide. Israel has rejected the accusations.

Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire statement connected Wednesday that volition halt the 15-month war that has devastated the Palestinian enclave, with astir 90 percent of its 2.3 radical displaced and a important fig of them suffering hunger.

A little ceasefire successful November 2023 saw the merchandise of 110 Israeli captives and immoderate 240 Palestinian prisoners.

In the archetypal signifier of this ceasefire, 33 Israeli captives volition beryllium freed successful speech for astir 1,900 Palestinian prisoners, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

But the Israeli service has intensified strikes connected Gaza since the woody was announced, sidesplitting astatine slightest 123 people. The Israeli service said it conducted raids connected 50 “terror targets” crossed Gaza connected Friday.

The spokesperson of al-Quds Brigades, the equipped helping of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says the radical is making the last arrangements for the merchandise of captives but intensified Israeli bombing risks sidesplitting them.