Houthi prime minister said killed in Israeli strike on Sanaa apartment yesterday

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29 August 2025, 7:48 am

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Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Yemen's Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi visits the offices of Hamas in Sanaa, to offer his condolences over the killing of the terror group's leader Yahya Sinwar, on October 20, 2024. (Mohammed Huwais/AFP)

Yemen’s Al-Jumhuriya channel reports that the prime minister of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Ahmed al-Rahawi, was killed in an apartment in Sanaa during the Israeli strikes yesterday.

The Aden Al-Ghad newspaper adds that Rahawi was killed along with several of his companions.

It appeared from the reports to have been a separate strike from the one yesterday that was said to have targeted 10 senior Houthi ministers, including the defense minister, as they gathered in a location outside of Sanaa to hear a planned speech by the group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

The outcome of that strike has yet to be made clear.