The Israeli Air Power on Thursday carried out a focused strike seemingly geared toward wiping out the army and political management of the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, in what Hebrew media shops mentioned was its most dramatic strike within the nation but.
The strike was first reported by the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV, after which confirmed by Protection Minister Israel Katz and the Israel Protection Forces, although they didn’t verify the targets.
Based on a number of media reviews in Israel that cited unnamed safety officers, Israeli intelligence discovered that 10 Houthi ministers, together with the protection minister, and different senior officers, had been gathering exterior Sanaa to listen to a deliberate speech by the group’s chief, Abdul Malik al-Houthi. The Israeli Air Power then launched a strike focusing on the assembly.
Residents of the Houthi-controlled capital informed Reuters that the assaults struck an space close to the presidential complicated and a constructing in southern Sanaa.
The end result of the strike was not instantly clear.
It was additionally not clear which members of the Houthi management had been current, or if the group’s chief of workers, Muhammad al-Ghamari, was in attendance.
Israeli intelligence offered real-time particulars of the gathering, enabling the strike, which was carried out regardless of heavy air defenses within the space, reviews mentioned. As al-Houthi delivered his handle, Israel reportedly monitored it to see whether or not he realized senior officers had been being focused, and he gave no indication of being conscious, the reviews mentioned.
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Katz’s workplace mentioned that together with IDF Chief of Workers Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and senior commanders, he had coordinated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier than authorizing the operation.
“As we warned the Houthis in Yemen: After the plague of darkness comes the plague of the firstborn,” Katz mentioned in a press release, a reference to the Biblical Ten Plagues of Egypt, presumably confirming that prime Houthi figures had been the goal.
In a press release confirming an assault with out particulars, the IDF accused the Houthis of performing aggressively because the begin of the conflict with Hamas in Gaza, aiming to hurt Israel and its allies, destabilize the regional order and disrupt world maritime freedom.
“The IDF is performing forcefully in opposition to the Houthi terror regime, alongside intensifying operations in opposition to Hamas in Gaza, and can proceed to behave to remove all threats to Israeli civilians,” the army mentioned.
An unnamed senior official informed Channel 12 information outlet that Israel had been prepared to focus on Houthi management as a part of a unique strike on Sanaa earlier this week, however in the end waited till Thursday.
Whereas officers have solid the strike in dramatic phrases, earlier Israeli actions in Yemen have didn’t halt the Houthis’ continued drone and missile assaults in the course of the ongoing conflict.
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The strike In Yemen, occurred in the course of the speech of Houthi chief Abdul Malik after Israel obtained intelligence that the highest army management of the Houthis and the Chief of Workers are assembly in a secret constructing in Sana’a.
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— Voice From The East (@EasternVoices) August 28, 2025
A supply from the Houthi protection ministry denied that any members of the group had been focused within the assault, and insisted that Israel was attacking “civilian targets and the Yemeni folks due to their positions supporting Gaza.”
Thursday’s strike was the second time this week that Israel has attacked Houthi targets in Yemen.
A number of strikes rocked Sanaa on Sunday, after the Iran-backed group fired a projectile with a cluster bomb warhead towards Israel on Friday for the primary time.
The IDF and the Houthis mentioned Sunday’s strikes hit a facility owned by Yemen’s foremost oil firm, which is managed by the Houthis, together with an influence plant and a army website in an space the place the presidential palace is positioned.
A spokesman for the Houthi-run well being ministry mentioned 10 folks had been killed and 102 others had been injured in that assault.
Folks examine a broken petrol station hit in Israeli airstrikes on Sunday, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP)
Thursday’s strike marked the sixteenth time that Israel has attacked the Iran-backed insurgent group in Yemen, positioned some 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) away.
The Houthis — whose slogan requires “Loss of life to America, Loss of life to Israel, [and] a Curse on the Jews” — started attacking Israel and maritime visitors in November 2023, a month after the October 7 Hamas bloodbath in southern Israel.
The Houthis held their hearth when a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hamas in January 2025. By that time, that they had launched over 40 ballistic missiles and dozens of assault drones and cruise missiles at Israel, together with one which killed a civilian and wounded a number of others in Tel Aviv in July, prompting Israel’s first strike in Yemen.
Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive in opposition to Hamas within the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 72 ballistic missiles and not less than 23 drones at Israel. A number of of the missiles have fallen quick.
In response to the Houthi assaults, Israel and a United States-led coalition bombarded rebel-held areas in Yemen, together with Sanaa and the strategic coastal metropolis of Hodeida. Israeli strikes knocked the Sanaa airport out of service in Could.
The Trump administration in Could introduced a cope with the Houthis to finish the airstrikes in return for an finish to assaults on delivery. The fear group, nonetheless, mentioned the settlement didn’t embody halting assaults on targets it believed had been aligned with Israel.
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