The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen said Saturday that an Israeli airstrike earlier this week killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled government in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa along with other Houthi officials, according to media reports.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was the most senior Houthi official<\/a> killed in the Israeli-U.S. campaign against the Iran-backed rebels.<\/p>\n Al-Rahawi was killed along with a number of ministers in an\u00a0airstrike on Sanaa<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, the rebels said in a statement<\/a>. Other ministers and officials were wounded, the statement said without providing further details.<\/p>\n The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday<\/a> that it had attacked a Houthi \u201cmilitary target\u201d in the Sanaa area, giving no further details.<\/p>\n The Associated Press reported<\/a> that Thursday\u2019s Israeli strike occurred as the rebels-owned television station was broadcasting a speech by Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the secretive leader of the rebel group where he was sharing updates<\/a> on the latest Gaza developments and vowing retaliation against Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen said Saturday that an Israeli airstrike earlier this week killed the prime minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10537,43,5897,1258,7607,1259,14207,44,23156,41,39,42,40,8767,31749],"class_list":{"0":"post-108511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-palestine","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-war","22":"tag-yemen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}