If Gaza ceasefire holds, Houthis will stop Israel, Red Sea attacks. Israel-Palestine conflict news
Spokesman al-Bukaiti says the Houthis will end operations in support of Gaza when the ceasefire comes into force on Sunday.
Houthi rebels have backed the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, with the Yemeni group’s spokesman saying they will resume military operations against Israel as well as commercial vessels in the Red Sea if the ceasefire comes into effect on Sunday. Will stop.
“If Israel stops aggression in Gaza, and if the US, Britain and Israel stop aggression against Yemen, then the Houthis will continue their attacks, including attacks against the navy and commercial ships,” Mohammed al-Bukaiti told Al Jazeera on Saturday. Will stop the campaign.”
Britain and the United States have launched several attacks on targets inside Yemen to stop the Houthis. Washington also imposed sanctions on the Iran-linked group.
However, Israel continues to kill women and children (in Gaza), so the Houthis were forced to launch a missile attack, he said, apparently referring to the missile attack launched on Saturday.
The Israeli military said it intercepted two missiles launched from Yemen toward Israel in the morning and afternoon. Military statements said one in the morning targeted central Israel, while the other was launched towards the south of the country.
The Houthis also announced that they had fired a missile toward central Israel in the morning. He had repeatedly stressed that he would stop his attacks if Israel stopped its military offensive in Gaza. 15 months of relentless Israeli bombardment killed more than 46,000 Palestinians and reduced Gaza to rubble.
Israel has bombed Houthi-controlled ports, including Hodeidah port and power plants considered a lifeline for the war-torn nation.
Houthi attacks supporting Palestinians
The group has been launching rockets toward Israel since October 2024 in what they say is a show of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Houthi rebels also targeted navies and commercial ships belonging to Israel and its allies passing through Bab al-Mandeb in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade.
Israel justified its devastating military attack, saying it was aimed at defeating the Hamas armed group, which had launched an attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,100 people. Palestinian fighters also captured about 250 people.
But Israel was accused by rights groups of war crimes and waging a genocidal war against Palestinians. In February 2024 the International Court of Justice said that the Israeli aggression “probably” amounts to genocide. Israel has rejected the allegations.
Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire deal on Wednesday that will end a 15-month war that has devastated the Palestinian territory, leaving nearly 90 percent of the 2.3-year-old population displaced and a large number of them facing hunger. Are suffering from.
A brief ceasefire in November 2023 led to the release of 110 Israeli detainees and approximately 240 Palestinian prisoners.
According to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, in the first phase of this ceasefire, 33 Israeli detainees will be released in exchange for approximately 1,900 Palestinian prisoners.
But since the agreement was announced, Israeli forces have stepped up attacks on Gaza, killing at least 123 people. The Israeli military said it raided 50 “terrorist hideouts” in Gaza on Friday.
A spokesman for the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, says the group is making final arrangements for the release of the detainees, but they are at risk of being killed as Israeli bombardment intensifies.
