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Trump halts US attacks on Yemen as Israel hits airport
FRANCE 24 English
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5/6/2025
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The Israeli military says it fired on Yemen's main airport this Tuesday.
00:04
Israel had earlier warned people to leave the area around Sanaa International Airport,
00:09
a day after Israeli forces carried out airstrikes on the port of Hodeidah in Yemen
00:14
in response to the Houthi missile landing near an Israeli airport,
00:18
or rather Israel's main airport, Ben-Gurion at Tel Aviv.
00:22
That happened on Sunday.
00:23
Eyewitnesses back in Yemen said there were four strikes also in the capital, Sanaa.
00:30
Well, let's bring in Noga Tarnopolski for more on this situation.
00:36
Noga, of course, is our correspondent in Jerusalem.
00:39
Noga, a very good evening to you.
00:41
What can you tell us about this strike then on Yemen?
00:47
Well, there are a number of interesting details.
00:50
One is this was an explicit, overt strike on civilian infrastructure,
00:57
the international airport of Sanaa,
00:59
and it seemed to be a not very subtle response to the Houthi effort and to the Houthi threat
01:06
that it could simply shut Israel off from the world.
01:09
Israel has one major international airport,
01:12
and the one Houthi missile that managed to get through Israel's air defenses
01:16
hit in this very, very delicate spot of the airport.
01:20
Israel has been almost without flights since Sunday.
01:23
As a result, airlines continue to delay their return.
01:27
There will be few flights, I think, at least until mid-May.
01:30
And this was Israel basically saying,
01:33
you attacked our airport, we will demolish yours.
01:36
It seems to me that simple.
01:39
What makes it interesting is a few details.
01:42
The United States, which has been the principal force attacking Houthis in recent months,
01:48
tried to stay away from these sort of explicitly civilian targets
01:52
and attacked almost entirely Houthi military targets.
01:57
Tonight, just as Israeli planes had landed back home,
02:01
Donald Trump announced a sort of a ceasefire.
02:06
He said there would be an end to the war,
02:09
that the Houthis had promised him that they would no longer attack U.S. ships,
02:14
and he said that as a result, the U.S. would no longer attack the Houthis in Yemen.
02:20
Subsequently, Oman confirmed a ceasefire between the Houthis and the United States.
02:27
This seems to leave Israel very exposed.
02:31
The Israeli government was stunned by Trump's statement.
02:34
It has been counting on American support.
02:37
And the Houthis seem to have been given, advertently or inadvertently,
02:40
a carte blanche from the White House to keep attacking Israel
02:44
in the knowledge that there won't be further American strikes in retaliation.
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