The IDF confirms in a statement that it killed Houthi military chief of staff Muhammad al-Ghamari in an airstrike in Yemen in August.
The August 28 strike in Sanaa had also killed the Houthi prime minister and around a dozen other top officials in the Iran-backed terror group.
Earlier, the Houthis confirmed al-Ghamari’s death in a statement, without providing any further details.
The IDF says al-Ghamari had served as Houthi chief of staff since 2016, after several other senior roles. Over the years, he played “a key role in building the military capabilities” of the Houthis, the military says.
Al-Ghamari had received training by operatives from Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran, according to the IDF.
During the war, the military says al-Ghamari was involved in planning and carrying out ballistic missile, drone, and cruise missile attacks against Israel and commercial ships sailing in the Red Sea.
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