{"id":386522,"date":"2025-08-31T04:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386522\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:49:11","slug":"yemens-houthi-rebel-prime-minister-ahmed-al-rahawi-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-militant-group-says-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386522\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebel prime minister Ahmed al Rahawi killed in Israeli airstrike, militant group says | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has killed the Houthi rebel prime minister Ahmed al Rahawi, the Iranian-backed militant group has said.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed on Thursday in a strike on the Yemeni capital Sanaa, along with a number of other ministers, the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis have controlled much of northwestern Yemen since 2014 after forcing out the internationally recognised government and starting a civil war. They are backed by Iran and have conducted repeated strikes on shipping in the Red Sea and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The criminal, treacherous Israeli enemy targeted them during a routine workshop held by the government to evaluate its activities and performance over the past year,&#8221; Houthi president Mahdi al Mashat said in a statement reported by the Yemen News Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mashat also claimed Israel should expect &#8220;dark days&#8221; ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The strike took place as a Houthi-owned TV station was broadcasting a speech from the group&#8217;s secretive leader Abdul Malik al Houthi, sharing updates on the latest developments in Gaza and vowing retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Rahawi was not a part of the inner circle around Houthi that runs the military and strategic affairs of the armed group.<\/p>\n<p>His government, like the previous one, was tasked with running the day-to-day civilian affairs in Sanaa and other Houthi-held areas.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Friday it had &#8220;carried out a significant strike against strategic targets of the Houthi terror regime in Yemen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<\/strong><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/us-blocks-palestinian-president-mahmoud-abbas-and-80-other-officials-from-united-nations-annual-meeting-in-new-york-13420954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US blocks Palestinian president from UN meeting<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/us-court-rules-trumps-global-tariffs-are-illegal-but-leaves-them-in-place-for-now-13421036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Court rules Trump&#8217;s tariffs are illegal<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/greta-thunberg-rejects-accusations-of-antisemitism-as-she-embarks-on-second-flotilla-to-gaza-13421526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greta Thunberg embarks on second Gaza flotilla<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli reports then suggested that senior officials were at the site.<\/p>\n<p>The strike came three days after the Houthis launched a ballistic missile towards Israel.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skynews-middle-east-israel_7006536.jpg\"   alt=\"Pic: AP\/Osamah Abdulrahman\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Pic: AP\/Osamah Abdulrahman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who was Rahawi?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The late rebel prime minister hailed from the southern province of Abyan, and was an ally to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>He allied himself with the Houthis when the group took Sanaa in 2014 and was appointed prime minister in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" data-testid=\"app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is the most senior Houthi official to be killed since the US and Israel began their air and naval campaign in response to the group&#8217;s attacks on Israel and ships in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has killed the Houthi rebel prime minister Ahmed al Rahawi, the Iranian-backed militant group has said. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-386522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121577352777622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}