State Department Spokesperson Details The Ceasefire Agreement Reached With The Houthis

During Tuesday's press briefing, State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce discussed the ceasefire agreement reached with the Houthis.

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00:00and now i will take your questions uh daphne thank you this is our deal with the houthis

00:06could you get a sense of how the state department was involved in this what did u.s engagement with

00:11oman and the houthis look like on this well we've got some details again i've noted to you what the

00:17omanis have have messaged again retweeted by ambassador whitkoff i can read you a little

00:24bit more here as well that gives you a few more details in the future they note neither side will

00:29target the other including american vessels in the red sea and the bob amandab strait ensuring

00:35freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping the salt

00:40native oman expresses its gratitude to both parties and their constructive approach that led to this

00:48welcome outcome and hopes that it will lead to further progress on many regional issues toward

00:53achieving justice so at that point though there's more that um obviously you want to hear about

00:59obviously some of the details and i would expect i'll have more for that uh on that for you probably

01:04on thursday's briefing we'll look for it there uh andrea thank you can i follow up on that please

01:10sure of course um jesus does this ceasefire also extend to the houthis not attacking israel

01:19and israel not attacking the houthis as they have just today in retaliation for the attack by the

01:26houthis against the area near ben-gurion just a few days ago well and just uh looking at the president's

01:34remarks looking at this particular message from the omanis this is about the red sea the attacking of

01:39ships and the nature of the action that the united states had taken making it very clear at the time

01:44that this was not going to be a pinprick operation that we were going to continue this operation

01:49uh until the houthis stopped attacking shipping in that framework that is what i've seen here and

01:54that's all i can uh i can remark on