ExCLUSIVE: According to reports, Brooklyn Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz’s rumored feud with his famous parents, David and Victoria, has not stopped.
David Beckham’s birthday parties were canceled by Brooklyn and wife Nicola Peltz.
Brooklyn Beckham and wife Nicola Peltz have been left “devastated” that his parents David and Victoria are “picking sides” in the alleged family fallout. The Beckhams have been rocked by their very public feud, rumours which have gathered pace over David’s 50th celebrations.
By claiming to be against every Nicola and Brooklyn event, Brooklyn and Nicola shocked both the famous family and the fans. The couple’s alleged arrival in London from their Los Angeles residence for the big day is said to have made things worse for the football icon.
Rumours quickly spread over the cause of their apparent fallout, with fingers being pointed to both Nicola as well as Romeo Beckham’s new girlfriend Kim Turnbull. Brooklyn and Nicola skipped various parties over the course of last week, including a family bash in the Cotswolds, a trip to France and a London celebration.
Brooklyn and Nicola are said to have wanted to meet David privately (Image: Instagram)
Kim started dating Brooklyn’s younger brother Romeo in November and appeared at all of David’s celebrations. David and Victoria’s youngest son Cruz was also accompanied by his girlfriend Jackie Apostel at the events.
According to reports, Brooklyn and Kim once had a relationship. Prior to that time, she dated Rocco, the son of Guy Ritchie and Madonna.
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However, sources have claimed there was never any romance between Kim and Brooklyn. Eyes have since turned to Brooklyn’s wife Nicola, who the famous family reportedly want nothing to do with.
Nicola’s husband has allegedly resisted attending any family gatherings, leading to accusations that she has a history of starting arguments before her husband. Romeo is upset about the situation because Kim is to blame, according to reports.
However, Nicola and Brooklyn reportedly suffered other injuries as a result of the fallout. Before making a significant U-turn, Brooke reportedly had the idea of attending David’s birthday celebrations.
All of David and Victoria’s children but Brooklyn joined in the celebrations(Image: Instagram)
He was said to have “wanted to meet his famous father privately” in an effort to avoid Kim because the couple “have a problem with her.” They were allegedly instructed to attend the family gathering alone as opposed to “grabbing a quick coffee or breakfast” with the father-of-four.
A source close to the situation has now told the Mirror : “Nicola encourages Brooklyn to see his family and is usually the reason Brooklyn does see his family. They are both devastated. They cannot believe that Victoria & David refused to see them privately after they travelled all the way to London specifically to try to repair the relationship.”
Instead of having a private discussion about the issue, they continued, “As parents, it’s shocking that Victoria & David are acting this way.” Victoria and David (seem to) not concerned with developing a solution that works for everyone.
In November, Romeo and Kim revealed their romance. The former football player’s supporters on social media have since stopped since he started dating Kim and Brooklyn.
A family-related source previously told the Mirror that “Brooklyn’s absence was a real blow to David.” Although Brooks is married now, his father was a close relationship when he was a child.
The fallout is said to be over Romeo’s girlfriend Kim(Image: Instagram/romeobeckham)
There is a separation between Brooklyn and his parents because his wife Nicola is older and more confident in her own right. Due to the family’s use of social media, it has turned out to be a problem and not something they can handle keeping private. There is a very obvious rift between David and Victoria that needs to be resolved. In recent months, things have escalated.
Brooklyn “flys to London with the sole intention of seeing his family and celebrating his dad’s birthday,” according to sources who have spoken to The Sun. He suggested having a coffee or breakfast, but he was informed that Kim would likely attend one of their lavish parties, so he refrained from going there.
However, a source claims Kim, 24, was away from David’s black-tie dinner due to her work obligations. This sounds very performative, according to a different source. In the knowledge that they would be inquired about, Brooklyn sent a text, but it sounded like boxticking.
David’s company declined to comment. Victoria and Brooklyn’s representatives have been contacted for comment by The Mirror.
Just yesterday, David posted a sweet message for his son Brooklyn. David shared a series of photographs on Instagram documenting a fishing and camping holiday with his two younger sons, writing alongside the post: “Six months ago planned a trip with my boys at the start of last week to camp and fish for my 50th. Was so much fun.” He also then wrote: “You were missed Brooklyn.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has made his much-anticipated first visit to the White House, as his country and the United States continue to spar over trade, tariffs and the prospect of reimagining their shared borders.
Seated across from Carney in the Oval Office on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump continued to advocate for Canada becoming part of its southern neighbour.
But Carney reiterated his firm commitment to defending Canadian sovereignty, though he spoke only briefly during his half-hour appearance with Trump in the Oval Office.
“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney told Trump, in a gesture to the president’s background as a real-estate developer.
He then referenced his mandate from Canada’s recent federal elections, which reflected growing anti-Trump sentiment among Canadian voters.
“Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign these last several months, it’s not for sale — won’t be for sale — ever,” Carney said of his country.
Overall, however, the meeting was cordial, with the two leaders exchanging warm words and Trump teasing a breakthrough with the Houthis, an armed group in Yemen.
Here are five key takeaways from their meeting.
President Donald Trump greets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney outside the White House on May 6 [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]
Trump weighs in on Canada’s election
Carney’s appearance at the White House comes just over a week after his country’s federal elections on April 28, which saw Trump emerge as a defining force.
While the research firm Ipsos found that affordability and the cost of living topped the list of voter concerns in Canada, 24 percent of respondents identified Canada’s increasingly fractious relationship with the US as a leading issue as well.
A separate Ipsos poll found that more voters trusted Carney to handle Trump than any other candidate.
The centre-left Liberals ultimately won 169 seats out of 343, enough to form a minority government — and enough for Carney, the Liberal leader, to remain Canada’s prime minister.
But that was a stark reversal from the Liberal Party’s sagging poll numbers at the start of the year. Experts believe Trump’s second term, which began on January 20, helped propel the Liberal Party’s comeback.
His remarks about Canada becoming a US state and his aggressive tariff policy alienated many Canadians, who felt their country’s close ties with the US had soured.
And some voters feared that Canada’s Conservative Party — which had previously been the frontrunner in the elections — might capitulate to Trump’s demands.
As Trump opened his sit-down on Tuesday with Carney, he gave a nod to the Liberals’ come-from-behind victory, joking that he took partial credit for the party’s electoral success.
“I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him,” Trump said of Carney.
“But I can’t take full credit. His party was losing by a lot. And he ended up winning. So I really want to congratulate him. It was probably one of the greatest comebacks in the history of politics. Maybe even greater than mine.”
Reporters gather to ask Carney and Trump questions about the future of US-Canada relations [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]
Trump and Carney exchange praise
Trump proceeded to shower Carney with praise, calling him a “very good” and “very talented person” with whom he had “a lot of things in common”.
By contrast, the US president launched barbs at Carney’s predecessor, fellow Liberal Justin Trudeau, who served as Canada’s prime minister from 2015 until March of this year.
“I didn’t like his predecessor,” Trump said shortly. He also hinted at other tense relationships with other world leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with whom he had an Oval Office shouting match in February.
“ This is very friendly. This is not gonna be like we had another little blow-up with somebody else. It was a much different. This is a very friendly conversation,” Trump said.
Carney, for his part, responded with compliments of his own for Trump.
“You’re a transformational president,” Carney said at the outset, praising the US president’s “relentless focus on the American worker”. He also drew a parallel between Trump’s leadership and his own, saying he had been elected “to transform Canada, with a similar focus on the economy” and “securing our borders”.
“The history of Canada and the US is we’re stronger when we work together, and there are many opportunities to work together,” Carney said. “I look forward to addressing some of those issues that we have, but also finding those areas of mutual cooperation so we can go forward.”
Carney: Canada is ‘not for sale’
The two leaders’ conversation, however, quickly shifted to one of the most contentious issues facing their countries’ ties: Trump’s threats to make Canada part of the US.
Since December, Trump has made regular remarks that Canada should be absorbed into the US as a 51st state, owing to an imbalance of trade.
According to the US government, Canada is the largest destination for US exports and one of its top three sources for imports. But Canada exports more to the US than it imports, creating a deficit of $63.3bn in Canada’s favour.
Experts say trade deficits are not necessarily a bad thing: They can indicate a stronger consumer base or differences in currency value. But Trump has repeatedly framed the US’s trade deficit with Canada as a “subsidy” that keeps the country’s economy afloat.
In the lead-up to Tuesday’s meeting, the US president pledged to broach the issue of statehood with Carney. “I’ll always talk about that,” he told the TV news programme Meet the Press on Saturday.
But during the public portion of their meeting, Trump took a more subdued approach, saying that, while he believed statehood to be a boon for Canada, he would not force the issue.
“I still believe that, but it takes two to tango, right?” Trump told reporters. He later added, “I do feel it’s much better for Canada. But we’re not gonna be discussing that unless somebody wants to discuss it.”
He nevertheless revisited familiar arguments for combining the two countries, including that statehood would allow Canada to avoid the steep 25-percent tariffs the US has placed on many of its exports, including steel and aluminium.
“I believe it would be a massive tax cut for the Canadian citizens. You get free military, you get tremendous medical care and other things. There would be a lot of advantages, but it would be a massive tax cut,” he said.
When Carney responded that Canada was “not for sale”, Trump doubled down, saying, “Never say never.”
But Carney scrunched up his face with a cheeky look and appeared to mouth the word “never” multiple times to the journalists circled around them.
He also attempted to steer the discussion to more neutral ground, praising Trump for pushing Western powers to invest more in military defence.
Still, reporters continued to press the two leaders about the controversial remarks. One asked Trump whether he would accept the will of the Canadian people not to become a 51st state.
“Sure, I would,” Trump replied. “But this is not necessarily a one-day deal. This is over a period of time they have to make that decision.”
Carney once again chimed in with a brief but blunt response. “Respectfully, Canadians’ view on this is not going to change.”
Later, outside the Canadian embassy in Washington, DC, Carney described the Oval Office meeting as a turning point for their bilateral ties.
“ Today marked the end of the beginning of a process of the United States and Canada redefining that relationship of working together,” Carney said. “The question is how we will cooperate in the future.”
Officials including US Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were also in attendance at the Oval Office meeting [Leah Millis/Reuters]
Trump stands firm on US tariffs
In the Oval Office, Trump was unwavering in his commitment to imposing tariffs on Canada, describing the import taxes as essential to protecting US industries from competition.
“Is there anything he can say to you in the course of your meeting with him today that can get you to lift tariffs on Canada?” a reporter in the Oval Office asked.
Trump responded with uncharacteristic brevity: “No.”
He later explained that it was his hope to create US industries that relied on no outside support, not even from close allies like Canada, whose economy is intimately interwoven with that of its southern neighbour.
Trump referenced the decline of the American auto and steel industries as motives for his tariffs.
“We want to make our own cars. We don’t really want cars from Canada, and we put tariffs on cars from Canada. At a certain point, it won’t make economic sense for Canada to build those cars,” Trump said. “And we don’t want steel from Canada because we’re making our own steel, and we’re having massive steel plants being built right now as we speak.”
He also repeated his false assertion that the US trade deficit with Canada amounted to a “subsidy” — and he appeared to cast doubt about whether Canada’s economy would survive without US support.
“They have a surplus with us, and there’s no reason for us to be subsidising Canada,” Trump said. “Canada will have to be able to take care of itself economically. I assume they can.”
Carney, meanwhile, highlighted the close relations the US and Canada have enjoyed in the past, arguing that cross-border trade has made both of their economies stronger.
“We are the largest client of the United States in the totality of all the goods. So we are the largest client in the United States,” he said. “Fifty percent of a car that comes from Canada is American. That’s not like anywhere else in the world.”
Both leaders agreed that the current United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) needed to be renegotiated. Canada has framed Trump’s tariffs as a violation of the free-trade agreement, which was signed under the US president’s first term in 2019.
“ The USMCA is great for all countries,” Trump said during Tuesday’s Oval Office meeting. But he added that the deal was a “transitional step” that would “get renegotiated very shortly”.
Carney echoed that assessment, saying that the USMCA would be a launchpad for broader discussions.
“It is a basis for a broader negotiation. Some things about it are going to have to change,” he said, offering measured criticism of Trump’s tariff policy. “Part of the way you’ve conducted these tariffs has taken advantage of existing aspects of USMCA, so it’s going to have to change.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney waves as he departs the White House [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]
Trump touts breakthrough with Houthis
While much of the Oval Office discussion revolved around trade, Trump briefly veered into the topic of international conflicts, saying that the war in Ukraine would feature heavily in his closed-door discussions with Carney.
He also announced his administration would end its nearly two-month-long bombing campaign in Yemen, where the US military has been attacking Houthi strongholds.
The US Central Command has said more than 800 targets have been bombed since Trump began the US’s latest round of strikes on March 15, known as Operation Rough Rider.
But the effort has been riddled with controversy. Aid groups have warned of civilian casualties, including the suspected bombing of a migrant centre in Saada, in Yemen’s north. And details of the initial strikes were accidentally leaked to a journalist on the messaging app Signal, spurring questions about mismanagement within the Trump White House.
But on Tuesday, Trump announced a shift in the ongoing fight with the Houthis.
“We had some very good news last night,” Trump said. “They’ve announced — to us, at least — that they don’t want to fight anymore. They just don’t want to fight. And we will honour that. And we will stop the bombings.”
The Houthis had been launching attacks against commercial vessels and naval ships in the Red Sea, as part of the group’s opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza, which has killed more than 52,615 Palestinians.
“They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And that’s the purpose of what we were doing,” Trump added. “We are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately.”
Shortly thereafter, a senior Houthi official posted on social media that the deal still needed to be “evaluated on the ground first”.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has made his much-anticipated first visit to the White House, as his country and the United States continue to spar over trade, tariffs and the prospect of reimagining their shared borders.
Seated across from Carney in the Oval Office on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump continued to advocate for Canada becoming part of its southern neighbour.
But Carney reiterated his firm commitment to defending Canadian sovereignty, though he spoke only briefly during his half-hour appearance with Trump in the Oval Office.
“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney told Trump, in a gesture to the president’s background as a real-estate developer.
He then referenced his mandate from Canada’s recent federal elections, which reflected growing anti-Trump sentiment among Canadian voters.
“Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign these last several months, it’s not for sale — won’t be for sale — ever,” Carney said of his country.
Overall, however, the meeting was cordial, with the two leaders exchanging warm words and Trump teasing a breakthrough with the Houthis, an armed group in Yemen.
Here are five key takeaways from their meeting.
President Donald Trump greets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney outside the White House on May 6 [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]
Trump weighs in on Canada’s election
Carney’s appearance at the White House comes just over a week after his country’s federal elections on April 28, which saw Trump emerge as a defining force.
While the research firm Ipsos found that affordability and the cost of living topped the list of voter concerns in Canada, 24 percent of respondents identified Canada’s increasingly fractious relationship with the US as a leading issue as well.
A separate Ipsos poll found that more voters trusted Carney to handle Trump than any other candidate.
The centre-left Liberals ultimately won 169 seats out of 343, enough to form a minority government — and enough for Carney, the Liberal leader, to remain Canada’s prime minister.
But that was a stark reversal from the Liberal Party’s sagging poll numbers at the start of the year. Experts believe Trump’s second term, which began on January 20, helped propel the Liberal Party’s comeback.
His remarks about Canada becoming a US state and his aggressive tariff policy alienated many Canadians, who felt their country’s close ties with the US had soured.
And some voters feared that Canada’s Conservative Party — which had previously been the frontrunner in the elections — might capitulate to Trump’s demands.
As Trump opened his sit-down on Tuesday with Carney, he gave a nod to the Liberals’ come-from-behind victory, joking that he took partial credit for the party’s electoral success.
“I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him,” Trump said of Carney.
“But I can’t take full credit. His party was losing by a lot. And he ended up winning. So I really want to congratulate him. It was probably one of the greatest comebacks in the history of politics. Maybe even greater than mine.”
Reporters gather to ask Carney and Trump questions about the future of US-Canada relations [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]
Trump and Carney exchange praise
Trump proceeded to shower Carney with praise, calling him a “very good” and “very talented person” with whom he had “a lot of things in common”.
By contrast, the US president launched barbs at Carney’s predecessor, fellow Liberal Justin Trudeau, who served as Canada’s prime minister from 2015 until March of this year.
“I didn’t like his predecessor,” Trump said shortly. He also hinted at other tense relationships with other world leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with whom he had an Oval Office shouting match in February.
“ This is very friendly. This is not gonna be like we had another little blow-up with somebody else. It was a much different. This is a very friendly conversation,” Trump said.
Carney, for his part, responded with compliments of his own for Trump.
“You’re a transformational president,” Carney said at the outset, praising the US president’s “relentless focus on the American worker”. He also drew a parallel between Trump’s leadership and his own, saying he had been elected “to transform Canada, with a similar focus on the economy” and “securing our borders”.
“The history of Canada and the US is we’re stronger when we work together, and there are many opportunities to work together,” Carney said. “I look forward to addressing some of those issues that we have, but also finding those areas of mutual cooperation so we can go forward.”
Carney: Canada is ‘not for sale’
The two leaders’ conversation, however, quickly shifted to one of the most contentious issues facing their countries’ ties: Trump’s threats to make Canada part of the US.
Since December, Trump has made regular remarks that Canada should be absorbed into the US as a 51st state, owing to an imbalance of trade.
According to the US government, Canada is the largest destination for US exports and one of its top three sources for imports. But Canada exports more to the US than it imports, creating a deficit of $63.3bn in Canada’s favour.
Experts say trade deficits are not necessarily a bad thing: They can indicate a stronger consumer base or differences in currency value. But Trump has repeatedly framed the US’s trade deficit with Canada as a “subsidy” that keeps the country’s economy afloat.
In the lead-up to Tuesday’s meeting, the US president pledged to broach the issue of statehood with Carney. “I’ll always talk about that,” he told the TV news programme Meet the Press on Saturday.
But during the public portion of their meeting, Trump took a more subdued approach, saying that, while he believed statehood to be a boon for Canada, he would not force the issue.
“I still believe that, but it takes two to tango, right?” Trump told reporters. He later added, “I do feel it’s much better for Canada. But we’re not gonna be discussing that unless somebody wants to discuss it.”
He nevertheless revisited familiar arguments for combining the two countries, including that statehood would allow Canada to avoid the steep 25-percent tariffs the US has placed on many of its exports, including steel and aluminium.
“I believe it would be a massive tax cut for the Canadian citizens. You get free military, you get tremendous medical care and other things. There would be a lot of advantages, but it would be a massive tax cut,” he said.
When Carney responded that Canada was “not for sale”, Trump doubled down, saying, “Never say never.”
But Carney scrunched up his face with a cheeky look and appeared to mouth the word “never” multiple times to the journalists circled around them.
He also attempted to steer the discussion to more neutral ground, praising Trump for pushing Western powers to invest more in military defence.
Still, reporters continued to press the two leaders about the controversial remarks. One asked Trump whether he would accept the will of the Canadian people not to become a 51st state.
“Sure, I would,” Trump replied. “But this is not necessarily a one-day deal. This is over a period of time they have to make that decision.”
Carney once again chimed in with a brief but blunt response. “Respectfully, Canadians’ view on this is not going to change.”
Later, outside the Canadian embassy in Washington, DC, Carney described the Oval Office meeting as a turning point for their bilateral ties.
“ Today marked the end of the beginning of a process of the United States and Canada redefining that relationship of working together,” Carney said. “The question is how we will cooperate in the future.”
Officials including US Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were also in attendance at the Oval Office meeting [Leah Millis/Reuters]
Trump stands firm on US tariffs
In the Oval Office, Trump was unwavering in his commitment to imposing tariffs on Canada, describing the import taxes as essential to protecting US industries from competition.
“Is there anything he can say to you in the course of your meeting with him today that can get you to lift tariffs on Canada?” a reporter in the Oval Office asked.
Trump responded with uncharacteristic brevity: “No.”
He later explained that it was his hope to create US industries that relied on no outside support, not even from close allies like Canada, whose economy is intimately interwoven with that of its southern neighbour.
Trump referenced the decline of the American auto and steel industries as motives for his tariffs.
“We want to make our own cars. We don’t really want cars from Canada, and we put tariffs on cars from Canada. At a certain point, it won’t make economic sense for Canada to build those cars,” Trump said. “And we don’t want steel from Canada because we’re making our own steel, and we’re having massive steel plants being built right now as we speak.”
He also repeated his false assertion that the US trade deficit with Canada amounted to a “subsidy” — and he appeared to cast doubt about whether Canada’s economy would survive without US support.
“They have a surplus with us, and there’s no reason for us to be subsidising Canada,” Trump said. “Canada will have to be able to take care of itself economically. I assume they can.”
Carney, meanwhile, highlighted the close relations the US and Canada have enjoyed in the past, arguing that cross-border trade has made both of their economies stronger.
“We are the largest client of the United States in the totality of all the goods. So we are the largest client in the United States,” he said. “Fifty percent of a car that comes from Canada is American. That’s not like anywhere else in the world.”
Both leaders agreed that the current United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) needed to be renegotiated. Canada has framed Trump’s tariffs as a violation of the free-trade agreement, which was signed under the US president’s first term in 2019.
“ The USMCA is great for all countries,” Trump said during Tuesday’s Oval Office meeting. But he added that the deal was a “transitional step” that would “get renegotiated very shortly”.
Carney echoed that assessment, saying that the USMCA would be a launchpad for broader discussions.
“It is a basis for a broader negotiation. Some things about it are going to have to change,” he said, offering measured criticism of Trump’s tariff policy. “Part of the way you’ve conducted these tariffs has taken advantage of existing aspects of USMCA, so it’s going to have to change.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney waves as he departs the White House [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]
Trump touts breakthrough with Houthis
While much of the Oval Office discussion revolved around trade, Trump briefly veered into the topic of international conflicts, saying that the war in Ukraine would feature heavily in his closed-door discussions with Carney.
He also announced his administration would end its nearly two-month-long bombing campaign in Yemen, where the US military has been attacking Houthi strongholds.
The US Central Command has said more than 800 targets have been bombed since Trump began the US’s latest round of strikes on March 15, known as Operation Rough Rider.
But the effort has been riddled with controversy. Aid groups have warned of civilian casualties, including the suspected bombing of a migrant centre in Saada, in Yemen’s north. And details of the initial strikes were accidentally leaked to a journalist on the messaging app Signal, spurring questions about mismanagement within the Trump White House.
But on Tuesday, Trump announced a shift in the ongoing fight with the Houthis.
“We had some very good news last night,” Trump said. “They’ve announced — to us, at least — that they don’t want to fight anymore. They just don’t want to fight. And we will honour that. And we will stop the bombings.”
The Houthis had been launching attacks against commercial vessels and naval ships in the Red Sea, as part of the group’s opposition to Israel’s war in Gaza, which has killed more than 52,615 Palestinians.
“They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And that’s the purpose of what we were doing,” Trump added. “We are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately.”
Shortly thereafter, a senior Houthi official posted on social media that the deal still needed to be “evaluated on the ground first”.
Following a disappointing 14th-place finish in the English second tier, Watford, a champion club, fired manager Tom Cleverley on Tuesday.
The former Premier League team finished 11 points outside the playoffs after taking just one point from their final five games.
After Valerien Ismael’s departure, the former Manchester United, Watford, and England midfielder was appointed interim manager at Vicarage Road in March of last year. He was appointed as the permanent head coach the following month.
Gian Luca Nani, the head coach of Watford, thanked Tom for his service, both as a player and as a member of staff.
“But it’s time for a change and to build on what we believe will be a young and talented squad that will have gained from the Championship’s experience this year.”
President Donald Trump has announced the United States is abandoning its daily bombing campaign of Yemen based on an understanding with the Houthis as Oman confirms that it has brokered a ceasefire between Washington and the armed group.
“The Houthis have announced to us that they don’t want to fight any more. They just don’t want to fight, and we will honour that, and we will stop the bombings,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Tuesday during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Trump claimed that the Iran-aligned Yemeni group “capitulated” and has promised not to carry out attacks on shipping. It launched those attacks in October 2023 shortly after the war in Gaza started, saying the attacks were in support of Palestinians.
“I will accept their word, and we will be stopping the bombing of Houthis, effective immediately,” the US president said.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said the two sides have agreed to a ceasefire.
“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,” he wrote in a post on X.
“In the future, neither side will target the other, including American vessels, in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping.”
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Houthis’ Supreme Political Council, wrote in a post on X that “Trump’s announcement of a halt to America’s aggression against Yemen will be evaluated on the ground first.”
“Yemen operations were and still are a support for Gaza to stop the aggression and bring in aid,” he added, suggesting that the group would not halt its attacks on Israel.
Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna said that the US State Department clarified that the agreement did not relate to the conflict between Israel and the Houthis.
“It was made very clear by the US State Department that the deal relates directly to Houthi operations in the coast of Yemen, specifically in regard to US shipping,” he said.
The ceasefire announcement comes hours after the Israeli military launched air strikes on the airport in Sanaa, inflicting devastating damage and rendering it inoperable.
Dozens of Israeli warplanes also launched several waves of large-scale overnight strikes on Yemen’s vital port of Hodeidah in what Israel said was a response after the Houthis hit the perimeter of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport with a ballistic missile.
The US military has been launching daily air strikes across Yemen for nearly two months, destroying infrastructure and killing dozens of people, including children and civilians.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem said it was “possible” that Iran helped to convince the Houthis to de-escalate their attacks.
“The Omanis have also been the main mediators between the US and Iran, and now the Houthis and the Americans. There are indications that the nuclear talks are advancing, with a framework shaping over sanctions lifting in exchange for nuclear restrictions,” he said.
