Safety has been drastically bolstered round Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Protection Minister Israel Katz and different senior officers following the elimination of high Houthi leaders in Yemen, a report mentioned Sunday, because the jihadist rebels vowed revenge.
Based on the Kan public broadcaster, the Shin Guess has been taking “particular and strange” measures to guard the senior officers.
Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser Al-Rahawi, the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi authorities — a insurgent entity that has been preventing the nation’s internationally-recognized authorities — and a collection of different ministers had been killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday on the capital Sanaa, the Houthis and the Israel Protection Forces confirmed on Saturday.
The chief of the Houthis, Abdulmalik al-Houthi, mentioned on Sunday that the group would hold launching assaults towards Israel, vowing to proceed “concentrating on Israel with missiles and drones” and to escalate these assaults, in a speech broadcast on the Houthis’ Al-Masirah TV.
He added that latest Israeli strikes on rebel-held areas of Yemen wouldn’t weaken the group or discourage its fighters.
The Houthi chief mentioned in his speech that “the approaching days will see further success… in thwarting the Israeli enemy’s makes an attempt to commit crimes towards our expensive individuals or to focus on official establishments and cities.”
The Houthis have launched repeated drone and missile assaults on Israel because the Gaza conflict erupted in October 2023 with Palestinian terror group Hamas’s onslaught in southern Israel.
Israel has been putting Houthi targets for months in response to the rebels’ assaults, which they declare are in help of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Houthi chief Abdul Malik al-Houthi offers a televised handle on August 28, 2025. (X screenshot)
Israel’s weekly cupboard assembly was held Sunday in a safe, undisclosed location following the Houthi threats, although Netanyahu dismissed the threats throughout that assembly.
“In each one among his speeches, [Houthi leader] al-Houthi guarantees he’ll strike Israel, that he’ll destroy Israel. That’s written on their flag,” he mentioned, referring to the Houthi official slogan that requires “Demise to Israel” and “A curse on the Jews.”
“That promise is not going to be fulfilled,” he vowed. “However our promise — to strike the fear regime with elevated drive — is being fulfilled. In a lethal blow, the IDF eradicated many of the Houthi authorities and extra army officers.”
He mentioned that Israel would proceed working to assassinate senior Houthi officers: “That is solely the start of the marketing campaign concentrating on senior officers in Sanaa. We’ll attain all of them.”
Netanyahu additionally boasted that the Western and Arab coalitions which have attacked the Houthis prior to now had been unable to realize what Israel has, and mentioned that ever because the 12-day conflict with Iran in June, Israel has been “putting the remaining elements of the axis systematically — day after day, entrance after entrance.”
Houthi fighters participate in a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, August 29, 2025. (AP Photograph/Osamah Abdulrahman)
A Yemeni safety supply advised AFP on Saturday that Houthi authorities had arrested dozens of individuals in Sanaa and different areas “on suspicion of collaborating with Israel.”
On Sunday, the United Nations mentioned the Houthis had detained at least 11 workers in raids on UN premises. There was no fast remark from Houthi authorities on the raids.
Late Sunday, British maritime safety agency Ambrey mentioned {that a} Liberia-flagged, Israeli-owned tanker had reported an explosion close by, southwest of Saudi Arabia’s Purple Sea port metropolis of Yanbu.
A vessel reported “a splash in shut proximity from an unknown projectile and heard a loud bang,” the UK Maritime Commerce Operations (UKMTO) mentioned, including that the vessel’s crew had been all secure and it was persevering with to its subsequent voyage.
In a later replace, Ambrey mentioned it assessed the vessel to be “aligned with” the targets of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis’ profile, on condition that it was publicly Israeli-owned.
It was not instantly clear if the Houthis had been concerned, and the group didn’t present fast touch upon the reported incident. UKMTO didn’t establish the celebration accountable, however mentioned authorities had been investigating.
Since 2023, the Houthis have additionally been attacking vessels within the Purple Sea that they deem to be affiliated with Israel, additionally purportedly in help of Gaza.
