Sources: Yemen's Houthi prime minister killed in Israeli strike

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The prime minister of Yemen's Houthi militia, Ahmed al-Rahawi, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the capital Sana'a controlled by the Iranian-allied rebels, sources close to the group said on Friday.

The sources told dpa on condition of anonymity that several of al-Rahawi's bodyguards were also killed in the bombing, part of a series of Israeli strikes in Sana'a on Thursday.

Al-Rahawi was killed along long with several escorts after an Israeli strike targeted a residential building, the Yemeni news portal Adan al-Ghad reported, citing unidentified sources.

So far, there has been no comment from the Houthis, who also declined to provide information about the sites hit by Israel on Thursday.

In August last year, the Houthis named al-Rahawi as prime minister of their government that is not internationally recognized.

However, al-Rahawi is believed to be a figurehead without any real authority, according to sources in Sana'a.

The Israeli military said it attacked a Houthi military target in Sana'a on Thursday.

A senior Houthi official denied Israeli reports that a gathering of the militia's leaders had been targeted in Thursday's strikes.

"The Zionist leadership is lying to the usurpers with false news. The Zionist strikes have failed and will remain so. Our long arm will teach them the necessary lesson," Mahdi al-Mashat, the head of the Houthis' self-styled Supreme Political Council, said, according to the militia-controlled news agency Saba.

Since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Houthis have regularly attacked Israel with missiles and drones in support of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement.

Israel has repeatedly targeted sites in Houthi-ruled areas in Yemen in response.

 

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