Will it dispel the Houthis’ excuse to fight the West?”
After Israel and Hamas announced their approval of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip, the first phase of the plan has begun. The Houthis should no longer have an excuse to continue their attacks and encroachments on Western interests in international waters, but the truth says otherwise. Following the US president’s initiative, the Houthis attacked the Dutch ship Miner Vagerach in the Gulf of Aden, killing one of its sailors, citing its links to Israel. The group’s military spokesman claimed the ship was “directly damaged and about to sink, by God’s will,” which was strongly condemned by the Dutch government as evidence that the Houthis “still pose a threat to maritime safety They believe it is a “bombed-out plan” to erase the Palestinian issue and try to put the countries and peoples of the region into the normalization cell. That leads them into an open war until the “disappearance of Israel” and other discourses known from Khomeini and Khamenei, taking advantage of the positions of some Iranian-affiliated Palestinian factions such as Hamas, Jihad and even the Palestinian People’s front. “Determining how the sector will be managed is an internal Palestinian matter,” they said, adding that they would continue to defend themselves in all forms until they achieve their full rights.
Hamas leader Hussam Badran also stressed that “Hamas disarmament is not something to be discussed or negotiable” and that this is Israel’s main demand for a ceasefire, although it is the most controversial point yet to be resolved in the Gaza ceasefire agreement. “The movement will respond to any Israeli attack if the war resumes in Gaza,” he said. Trump had threatened to resume military operations against the Houthis if they continued to attack passenger ships in the sea around Yemen, worse than the US military’s massive air and naval operations against Houthi-controlled areas from March 15 to May 6, an unwritten, weak and vague ceasefire agreement had been reached, while not including Houthi attacks on Israel. “Trump” apparently won’t need a new escalation with the Houthi group as he tries to focus more on implementing his plan in Gaza. And its response is likely to be delayed or linked to escalating events between Israel and the Palestinians if the Houthis violate the ceasefire with it in a way that undermines the implementation of its plan, which has a semi-global welcome.
“Do the Houthis understand what happened?”
When they see the devastation of Israel’s brutal war in the Gaza Strip on international television and newspapers, the group must understand the lesson and learn many lessons. Today, many experts in the Middle East and the United States argue that there is no solution for the Houthis other than military intervention, and that such a move may only require a mistake to undermine the support provided by Trump’s Gaza plan.
