Israel has reportedly taken out the Houthi Prime Minister and a number of the terror group’s senior political and military leaders in strikes on Yemen on Thursday night.
Yemen’s Al-Jumhuriya channel and the Aden Al-Ghad newspaper reported that Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli attack on a Sanaa apartment, with the latter reporting that several of his close associates were killed as well.
In what appeared to have been a separate strike on Thursday, ten Houthi ministers were said to have been killed as they gathered in a location outside Sanaa to hear a speech by the leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi.
Sources told Israel’s Channel 13 news claimed that “the direction [of the assessments] is positive, it seems the attack succeeded,” and Ynet reported that “the assessment that the entire military and governmental elite of the Houthis was eliminated in the attack is growing.”
The military said in a statement: “The IDF is operating decisively against the Houthi terrorist regime, while simultaneously intensifying strikes against the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza, and will continue to act to remove any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel.
“The Houthi terrorist organization has been operating under the Iranian direction and funding in order to harm the state and its allies since the beginning of the war, undermining regional stability and disrupting global freedom of navigation,” the IDF statement added.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a separate statement: “As we warned the Houthis in Yemen: after the plague of darkness comes the plague of the firstborn.” Katz added: “Whoever raises a hand against Israel—his hand will be cut off.”
