Houthis affirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike

[ad_1] Yemen's Houthi insurgent motion has confirmed that its self-proclaimed Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this week.

The Iran-backed group stated a number of different senior officers have been killed when the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) focused Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Thursday.

The IDF stated on the time that it attacked a Houthi "navy goal" within the Sanaa space, giving no additional particulars.

The Houthis have managed a lot of north-western Yemen since 2014, after ousting the internationally recognised authorities from Sanaa and triggering a devastating civil conflict.

The Houthis stated Rahawi had been killed alongside a number of Houthi ministers, although it didn't title the others.

Saudi Arabian information website al-Hadath experiences the Houthis' international minister, in addition to the ministers for justice, youth and sports activities, social affairs and labour, have been killed.

The workplace of Mahdi al-Mashat, the Houthis' president, that a number of different ministers "sustained reasonable and severe accidents" on account of the strike.

It added that Muhammad Ahmed Miftah, the Houthi deputy prime minister, would assume Rahawi's function.

Rahawi had held his publish since August 2024, and was largely seen as a figurehead of the motion as an alternative of being a part of the highest decision-making circle that plans navy operations.

Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the motion's final chief, in addition to the group's defence minister and the chief of workers, weren't stated to be among the many casualties in Thursday's assault.

The IDF is but to publicly touch upon the newest developments.

Because the begin of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis have frequently launched missiles at Israel and focused industrial ships within the Pink Sea and Gulf of Aden, saying they're performing in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Israel has, in flip, carried out air strikes on targets in Houthi-held elements of Yemen, with the acknowledged intention of curbing Houthi assaults.

Final week, Israel stated it had hit Houthi targets in Sanaa, in response to the motion's missile assault which Israel stated carried cluster munitions.