President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that the United States will halt its airstrike campaign “effective immediately” against the Houthis in Yemen after the terror group said they will stop attacking ships.

“They’ve said ‘please don’t bomb us anymore, and we’re not going to attack your ships,’” Trump said in the Oval Office.

Trump added that the terror group “capitulated” and that his administration will “take their word.”

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“They just don’t want to fight anymore,” Trump said. “We will honor that and we will stop the bombings.”

Trump declined to say where he heard the Houthis’ message, but said he was given the news by a “very good source” last night.

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi Political Council, said the terror group’s attacks “will not stop regardless of the consequences until the end of the aggression on Gaza and blockade on its people,”Bloomberg News reported.

Al-Bukhaiti reportedly suggested that the Houthis would be willing to stop attacking U.S. military ships if the airstrikes stop, “but we will definitely continue our operations in support to Gaza,” he insisted.

Trump said the purpose of the airstrikes was to stop the terror group, which has attacked more than 100 international cargo ships, tankers, and naval vessels following Hamas’ October 7 assault on Israel. Since March, over 800 Houthi targets have been hit, resulting in the elimination of hundreds of fighters and leaders.

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“They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore and that’s what the purpose of what we were doing,” the president said. “I think that is very positive. They were knocking out a lot of ships sailing beautifully down the various seas. It wasn’t just the [Suez] Canal, it was a lot of other places.”

Trump re-designated the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization upon taking office in January, reversing President Joe Biden’s earlier decision to remove them from the list.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the goal of getting the terrorist group to stop attacking ships was achieved, so the strikes will stop.

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“This was always a freedom of navigation issue,” Rubio said. “These are a band of individuals with advanced weaponry that were threatening global shipping, and the job was to get that to stop — and, if it’s going to stop, then we can stop.”

Earlier on Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike left the main airport in Yemen’s capital, which serves as “a central hub for the Houthi terrorist regime,” fully disabled, according to the Israeli Defense Forces. Flight runways, aircraft, and airport infrastructure were struck in the attack.

The strike was part of a wider two-day attack which also targeted civilian infrastructure that the Houthis have used for terror activity, including the Hudaydah Port, concrete plants, and several central power plants in the Sana’a area.

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The IDF said the strike on Sana’a Airport was a direct response to a missile fired by the Houthis that landed near Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, injuring six people and temporarily halting flights. The IDF said the missile was not intercepted due to a technical malfunction, noting that its systems typically maintain a 95% success rate against missiles launched from Yemen.

The IDF struck Houthi infrastructure in Yemen on Monday, May 5, including at the Hudaydah Port as well as the “Bajil” Concrete Plant. (IDF)

Following the strike, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that the Iranian will “bear direct responsibility for any attack by the Houthi tentacle against the State of Israel.”

Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel dropped all charges against seven University of Michigan students on Monday, a twist that shocked defense attorneys after Nessel had pushed for felony charges against the anti-Israel protesters.

The seven students faced misdemeanor charges of trespassing and felony charges of resisting and obstructing police stemming from an anti-Israel protest on Michigan’s campus last year, The Detroit Free Press reported. The courtroom, which was packed with people supporting the anti-Israel students, erupted in cheers and chants of “Free Palestine” when it was announced that the charges had been dropped.

Last September, Nessel pushed for the felony charges against the students, which could have put them behind bars for up to two years if they had been convicted. The attorney general alleged that the protesters used “physical force to counter” police officers who were attempting to clear them out of the area.

Nessel, who is Jewish, was pressured to recuse herself from the case last month as critics alleged that she was biased against Muslims. Nessel said that a letter from the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor defending her amid the accusations influenced her decision to drop the charges. The Democratic attorney general claimed that the letter — which said that Nessel “has a strong history of uplifting those in both the Muslim and Arab American communities” — was inappropriate.

“We have learned that a public statement in support of my office from a local nonprofit has been directly communicated to the court,” Nessel said. “The impropriety of this action has led us to the difficult decision to drop these charges.”

The defendants, Oliver Kozler, Samantha Lewis, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, Michael Mueller, Asad Siddiqui, Avi Tachna-Fram, and Rhiannon Willow, were also surprised by the decision and will now walk away from the charges in this case. Lewis, who said she faces charges in a separate case over another protest, mocked the attorney general, saying that “the possibility of recusal was going to be so embarrassing for Nessel that she just couldn’t bear it.”

“And so while all of us, and that includes all of you, refused to cower, she did. And that just goes to show that the bullies and badges and the top pig are just cowards,” Lewis told a group of her supporters.

The University of Michigan called in police to break up an anti-Israel encampment on its campus last May as university leadership faced calls to push back on antisemitism at the school. Michigan was one of the numerous universities where anti-Israel students set up camp in the spring of 2024, disrupting campus life and forcing schools to ask law enforcement for help in dispersing the protesters.