After a Houthi Israeli Airport Attack and US continual strikes?
Trump says the Houthi’s have said ‘Enough’ and will stop attacks with The US also halting their attacks…
President Trump on Tuesday said he would stop bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen because the group, armed by Iran, no longer wants to fight.
Why it matters: This tenuous deal follows a beefed-up U.S. presence in the greater Middle East and months of missile-and-drone exchanges that chewed through coveted stateside stockpiles.
Here are some key stats:
- More than 1,000 targets have been hit since mid-March, when Operation Rough Rider kicked off, according to the Pentagon.
- Central Command said it’s killed “hundreds of Houthi fighters and numerous Houthi leaders,” including drone experts. Al Jazeera reported at least 250 dead.
- The initial weeks of the operation cost nearly $1 billion, according to CNN.
- The Houthis downed several MQ-9 Reaper drones, costing millions of dollars each.
- One F/A-18E Super Hornet being towed on the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier fell overboard. One sailor was injured.
- There has been only a single public Pentagon briefing on the campaign. That happened more than a month ago.
The bottom line: “Getting to this contentious truce did not come cheap,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, an expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Axios….
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Biden admin Gaza ‘Pier’ aid effort was a failure….
During the mission, 62 personnel were injured, the Defense Department Inspector General said in its report, far more than previously disclosed. Army Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was critically injured in May 2024 in an accident involving a forklift aboard a Navy ship; he died five months later at a Veterans Affairs hospital….
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Israel cracks down on International and Internal efforts to assist those in Gaza pushing for astrict control of a coming occupied Gaza….
After the government announced sweeping new visa and registration rules in March for international aid organizations operating in Palestinian territories, lawmakers from parties in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government this week debated a controversial bill that would choke the flow of foreign government funding to Israeli nongovernment organizations that document human rights abuses in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
The twin moves targeting foreign and domestic organizations come at a pivotal moment in the Israel-Gaza war. After an aid blockade on Gaza that has lasted two months, Israel is this week working to convince international NGOs to collaborate with a new aid distribution scheme that would deliver limited food to the enclave, in places under Israel’s control…
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Worries about the Israeli plan to occupy Gaza....
An Israeli plan to seize the Gaza Stripand expand the military operation has alarmed many in the region. Palestinians are exhausted and hopeless, pummeled by 19 months of heavy bombing. Families of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza are terrified that the possibility of a ceasefire is slipping further away.
“What’s left for you to bomb?” asked Moaz Kahlout, a displaced man from Gaza City who said many resort to GPS to locate the rubble of homes wiped out in the war.
Israeli officials said Monday that Cabinet ministers approved the plan to seize Gaza and remain in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time — news that came hours after the military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers.
Details of the plan were not formally announced, and its exact timing and implementation were not clear. It may be another measure by Israel to try to pressure Hamas into making concessions in ceasefire negotiations…..
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Some Israelis are also opposed to the plan. Hundreds of people protested outside the parliament Monday as the government opened for its summer session. One person was arrested.
Families of hostages held in Gaza are afraid of what an expanded military operation or seizure could mean for their relatives….
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