Houthis confirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike | 30 Aug 2025 | Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement has confirmed that its self-proclaimed Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this week. The Iran-backed group said several other senior officials were killed when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Thursday. The IDF said Rahawi and other senior Houthi officials were “eliminated” when Israeli fighter jets struck a gathering in the Sanaa area. The Houthis said Rahawi had been killed alongside several Houthi ministers, though it did not name the others.