This is what happened on Tuesday.

“They just don’t want to fight,” said Mr. Trump. “And we will honor that and we will stop the bombing. They have capitulated, but more importantly, we will believe their word. They say they will no longer blow up ships.”

But despite his claim of success, it remained unclear whether the United States had achieved the objective to prevent the Houthis from hindering international shipping after a valuable seven -week bomb campaign.

The Houthis themselves stopped explaining a completely ceasefire and said they would continue to fight by Israel. And Houthi officials and supporters quickly depicted the deal as a big victory for the militia and a failure for Mr Trump, who spread a hashtag for social media with the text: “Yemen beats America.”

The Houthis have been that for more than a year Fire projectiles and launch drones With commercial and military ships in the Red Sea in what the militia group has described as a show of solidarity with residents of Gaza and with Hamas, the militant group checked the Palestinian territory.

In mid -March, the United States started to hit hundreds of goals to try to reopen international shipping jobs. The campaign has cost more than $ 1 billionsaid congress officials that they learned last month in closed-door briefings with Pentagon officials. The number of ammunition used in the campaign has caused concern Under some American military strategists, which are concerned that it could undermine the willingness for a potentially conflict with China.

After Mr. Trump unexpectedly broke the news of the deal between the Houthis and the United States, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Oman, Badr Albusaidi, said his country had mediated the agreement.

“In the future, none of the parties will focus on the other, including American ships, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab street, which ensures freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping,” he said in a statement on social media.

For his part, Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, a senior Houthi politician, said that if the United States stopped her attacks on Yemen, the Houthis would stop their attacks on a smaller group: “American military fleets and interests.”

Mr Al-Bukhaiti said, however, that the Houthis would continue military operations until Israel lifted his siege on Gaza: “Regardless of the sacrifices, even if we have to fight until the day of the judgment.”

His statement left unclear whether the Houthis would stop attacking other ships in the crucial shipping strip. The Houthis said that they only focused on ships with links to Israel or the United States, but the militia has in the past -directed ships without a clear link to both. In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, Mr. Al-Bukhaiti did not answer specific questions about whether the group of Israelically linked ships would continue to attack.

Mahdi Al-Mashat, another senior Houthi officer, made it clear that the group was intended to take revenge on Israel for the bombing at the most important international airport in Yemen on Tuesday. The Lord Al-Mashat said that the Houthis reaction “would be the earth, painful and beyond the ability of the Israeli and American enemy to wear.”

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a senior member of the group, also described Mr Trump’s announcement as a “victory” for the Houthis, which in a social media post implied that the agreement meant that the United States no longer supported Israel’s fight against the Houthis.

The American central command, responsible for operations against the Houthis, referred questions about the agreement to the White House. The White House refused to work out Mr Trump’s comments or to respond to questions about what the administration would do if the Houthis strikes would remain against Israeli ships.

Mr. Trump, who is susceptible to making offhand remarks that can increase foreign policy, seemed to catch his own Ministry of Defense. Three Pentagon officials said on Tuesday afternoon that the army had not yet received from the White House to end his attacking operations against the Houthis. The officials dried behind how Mr. Trump’s announcement had changed military policy.

The new American ceasefire with the militants supported by Iran comes when American officials work on a deal to curb the nuclear ambitions of Tehran, and the agreement with the Houthis could play a role in those broader discussions.

Two Iranian officials said on Tuesday that Iran used his influence on the Houthis as part of Oman’s efforts to drive a ceasefire and let them stop shooting on our ships. The officials, one in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one with the revolutionary guards, spoke about the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

The Houthis receive weapons and financing from Iran and are part of a network of what is known regionally as Iran’s Axis of Resistance. A recent social media post of Defense Minister Pete Hegseeth endangered action on Iran about Houthi attacks on American ships.

In recent weeks, the Iranian officials have publicly distorted themselves from the Houthis and say that Iran has no control over the group and that their actions are a response to the war in Gaza. The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in mid-March that “Houthis Act independently based on their own interests and personal views” and denied Iran had some proxy militia in the region.

Ahmad Zeidabadi, a prominent reformist analyst, wrote on social media that the cease-fire news between the United States and Houthis was “the best news for him” and the worst news for hardliners in Iran who support Proxy Milities in the region.

Nevertheless, national security experts have doubts that an agreement would lead to a long -term termination of attacks in the Red Sea. Mr Trump’s announcement came only a few hours after the Houthis had released a statement that said it was a “holy war to support the unlawful Palestinian people in Gaza” and confronting an “Israeli-American-British” enemy.

The Houthis have described their attacks as an attempt to put pressure on Israel to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, where more than two million Palestinians have had difficulty obtaining food and water – a blockade that has only recently been deepened.

Palestinians in Gaza have been besieged by Israel since Hamas carried out a fatal attack in southern Israel in October 2023 and took hostages. Israeli and Houthi troops have also performed strikes against each other.

“I would expect that the Houthis will continue to look to hit Israel, and what the group of ‘Israeli’ ships in the Red Sea calls,” said Gregory Johnsen, a former member of the Panel of the UN experts on Yemen. “If that happens, what does the US do: restart the strikes or have Israel handle the Houthis?”

He also expressed skepticism that the commercial shipping industry would return en masse to the Red Sea, since the Houthis “were not defeated or affected to the point that they cannot carry out these attacks.”

“They only promised not to do that, and whether the shipping industry is willing to take the Houthis word, because it can still be seen,” he said.

Helene Cooper contributed reporting of the Pentagon, Eric Schmitt from Washington, Farnaz Fassihi from New York and Shuaib Almosawa from Sana, Yemen.