Israeli airstrike kills Houthi prime minister in Yemen, rebels say | Yemen
Houthis said that the Israeli air strike killed the government of the government controlled by Houthi rebel in Yemen, the capital of Yemen.
The rebels said on Saturday that Ahmed Al-Rhawi was killed in a strike with a series of ministers on Thursday. Other ministers and officials were injured, the statement was added without further details.
Mahdi Al-Mashat, the President of the Group’s Supreme Political Council, said, uz We promise to God, to the beloved Yemeni people and the families of the martyrs and the revenge for being injured. ” He said.
He warned foreign companies to abandon Israel “before too late”.
The Prime Minister said in a statement that Houthi was targeted with other members of the Houthi controlled government during a routine workshop organized by the government to evaluate its activities and performance last year.
On Thursday, the Israeli strike took place in a speech that Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the secret leader of the rebel television station rebel group, made a speech in which Gaza developments and confronted against Israel. Senior Houthi officials gathered to watch Al-Houthi’s previously saved speeches.
The strike, which killed the Prime Minister, held a meeting for a Villand Houthi leaders in Beit Baws, a former village of Güney Sana’a. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were afraid of echoes.
On Thursday, the Israeli army, “Yemen’daki Sana’a region in the region of a Houthi terrorist regime fully hit the military target,” he said. The Army immediately did not immediately comment on the announcement of the murder of the Prime Minister on Saturday.
“Yemen is enduring for the victory of the Palestinian people, in a oil facility, which is controlled by an electrical power plant, as well as the rebels in Sana’a last week.
On August 22, Houthis launched a ballistic missile to Israel as the first cluster bomb of the rebels since 2023.
The Prime Minister came from Abyan, the Southern state, and was an ally for former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. When the rebels overcome the north and center of the country in 2014, he established an alliance when the country started the country’s long -standing civil war. He was appointed as Prime Minister in August 2024.
Al-Ahawi is the most senior Houthi official who has been killed since the start of air and sea campaigns in response to missiles and drone attacks on the ships of the US and Israeli rebels in Israel and Red Sea. The US and Israeli strikes killed dozens of people. In April, a US strike hit a prison holding African immigrants in North Sadaa state, killed at least 68 people and wounded 47 people.
A Ahmed Nagi, the senior Yemen analyst of Crisis Group International, a Brussels -based Thinktank, called the killing of the Houthi Prime Minister a “serious mishap for the rebels.
The authority said that Israel has hit the infrastructure of the rebels, “The top -level military figures that pose a greater threat to the command structures, including the targeting leaders.
Houthis launched a campaign targeting ships in response to the Israeli-Hamas War in the Gaza Strip, and said they did it in solidarity with the Palestinians. The attacks in the last two years have increased transportation in the Red Sea, where approximately $ 1 million goods are passed each year.
In May, the Trump administration announced an agreement to end air strikes to end the shipping attacks with Houthis. However, the rebels said that the agreement did not involve the attacks on the targets he believed to be compatible with Israel.
