The group has since faced two bombing campaigns by two successive U.S. administrations.
Joe Biden, Trump’s predecessor, launched airstrikes against Yemen on January 10, 2024, “in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.”
Those strikes failed to deter the Houthis and only stopped when a ceasefire was brokered between Israel and Hamas in January 2025.
The Houthis resumed their attacks when Israel imposed a blockade on food and aid entering Gaza in March 2025.
Trump launched his own bombing campaign in April 2025 to stop those attacks, which ended when the Trump Administration struck a deal with the Houthis in May to end airstrikes if the group stopped attacks on shipping. The deal did not include an agreement to stop attacks against Israel, which continued until an eventual ceasefire was reached in Gaza.
After striking a truce with the Houthis, Trump said of the group: “We hit them very hard. They had a great capacity to withstand punishment.”
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