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Tel Aviv: After promising to “defend itself by itself against any threat and any enemy” after a truce agreement between the US and the Houthis that excluded Israel, the Israeli military on Sunday night requested that civilians leave three ports in Yemen that are under Hamas control, CNN reported.

The ports of Ras Isa, Hodeidah, and Salif were to be evacuated, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Arabic media spokeswoman Avichay Adraee’s X evacuation alert.

Israel intercepted a missile launched from Yemen two days before the airstrikes, the IDF said. Since US President Donald Trump declared a ceasefire agreement between the US and Houthis last week, this was the first rocket.

Since President Donald Trump declared a ceasefire agreement between the United States and the Houthis last week, this was the first missile launched. The Houthis said that they will keep attacking Israel in support of the Gazan people in spite of the agreement with the US.

Israel, however, said that if necessary, it will only strike the Houthis. “This has been true in the face of many past challenges, and it will remain true in the future,” Israel Katz, the country’s defense minister, said last week, according to a CNN report.

Israel has issued an evacuation alert for Yemen for the second time in a week. Before carrying out attacks that it claimed “fully” damaged Yemen’s international airport in Sana’a, the Israeli military issued a warning about it on May 6.

Following the Houthis’ declaration to the US that “they don’t want to fight anymore,” Trump said last week that the US will “stop the bombings” against the Iran-backed rebel group in Yemen.

In the Oval Office on May 6, Trump sat next to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and said, “We will honor that, and we will stop the bombings.” In response to the Houthis’ strikes on maritime channels in Israel and the Red Sea, the United States has been waging a military campaign against the organization since mid-March.

According to Trump, “They have capitulated, but more importantly, we will take their word … they say they will not be blowing up ships anymore.”

According to CNN, which cited sources familiar with the situation, Trump’s declaration followed a flurry of diplomatic action between the US, Oman, and the Houthis in recent days. The agreement between the US and the Houthis to refrain from attacking one another is said to be intended to accelerate negotiations for a nuclear agreement with Iran.

Oman then said that it had negotiated a truce between the Houthis and the United States. In a post to X, the Omani Foreign Minister Badr said, “Following recent discussions and contacts conducted by the Sultanate of Oman with the United States and the relevant authorities in Sana’a, in the Republic of Yemen, with the aim of de-escalation, efforts have resulted in a ceasefire agreement between the two sides.”

CNN claimed that Trump said, “I’ll discuss that if something happens… with Israel and the Houthis,” in response to a question about what would happen if the Houthis persisted in attacking Israel.

Houthi commanders, meanwhile, supported Trump’s ceasefire declaration. They did, however, threaten to keep attacking Israel until it halts its military campaign in Gaza.