US officials: Al -Houthi can no longer endure, so he asked for a truce
الناشر رئيس التحرير: مشعل الخبجي
الناشر رئيس التحرير: مشعل الخبجي
After the seven -week American shelling on Houthi sites in Yemen, four US officials revealed that days before the sudden ceasefire agreement between the United States and the Houthis in Yemen, US intelligence began monitoring indications that the Yemeni group is looking for a way out.
Two officials said that the Houthi leaders started communicating with the United States ’allies in the Middle East at some point during the weekend of May.
While one of the sources explained that the American side "started receiving intelligence information stating that the Houthis could no longer bear more than that," according to Reuters.
Two sources stated that Iran has played an important role in encouraging the Houthis allied with it to negotiate, while it is proceeding with its own conversations with the United States on its nuclear program.
Two US officials also explained that US President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Steve Whitchov, who was already leading the American negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, was working through Omani intermediaries and held indirect talks with the senior Houthi negotiator and spokesperson Muhammad Abdul Salam. One of the officials said that Abd al -Salam was in turn in contact with the Houthi leader, Abd al -Malik al -Houthi.
An official also revealed that a framework agreement was reached later on Monday, May 5. By Tuesday, the sixth of May, Trump was ready to announce the agreement, confirming the surrender of the Houthis.
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the Houthis began attacking ships in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea, they said that it is linked to Israel or heading to it, stressing that this was support for the Palestinians in the Strip.
They also expanded their campaign on ships related to the United States and Britain in response to strikes by the two countries in early 2024.
However, America started last March (2025) an intense air campaign against the Houthi sites in Yemen, directed almost daily strikes, before Trump suddenly announced about two weeks ago the group's surrender.
