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Houthi officers carry the coffin of Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, who was killed along with others in Israeli airstrikes on Thursday, out of the Shaab Mosque during his funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo\/Osamah Abdulrahman)<\/p>\n
Thousands of mourners attended a funeral at the largest mosque in Yemen\u2019s capital Sanaa on Monday for 12 senior Houthi figures, including their prime minister, who were killed by an Israeli strike. Last Thursday\u2019s attack, the first to kill top officials, struck a large number of people who had gathered to watch a televised speech recorded by top Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, and it left most members of the group\u2019s cabinet dead.<\/p>\n
Mourners chanted the Houthi slogan \u201cGod is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam\u201d, as Mohammed Miftah, now de facto head of the Iran-aligned government in Sanaa, vowed revenge as well as an internal security crackdown against spies.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are facing the strongest intelligence empire in the world, the one that targeted the government \u2013 the whole Zionist entity (comprising) the U.S. administration, the Zionist entity, the Zionist Arabs and the spies inside Yemen,\u201d Miftah told the crowd of mourners at the Al Saleh mosque.<\/p>\n
Miftah became the acting head of the Houthis\u2019 government on Saturday following the death in the Israeli strike of Prime Minister Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi. Al-Rahwi was largely a figurehead and not part of the inner circle of power.<\/p>\n
Miftah had previously been his deputy. A raid on the United Nations offices in Sanaa on Sunday led to the detention of at least 11 U.N. personnel, the body said. The Houthis have given no reason for the raid but they have held a number of Yemeni employees of the U.N. and other aid agencies in the past on suspicion of spying.<\/p>\n
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Houthi supporters attend a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. AP\/PTI(AP08_29_2025_000515A)<\/p>\n
Israel said on Friday its airstrike had targeted the Houthis\u2019 chief of staff, defence minister and other senior officials and that it was verifying the outcome.<\/p>\n
The fate of the Houthis\u2019 powerful defence minister, Mohamed al-Atifi, who runs the Missiles Brigades Group, remains unclear as he has not made an appearance since the attack.<\/p>\n
THORN IN ISRAEL\u2019S SIDE<\/p>\n
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, who remains alive, has emerged in recent years as one of Iran\u2019s most prominent Arab allies and an enduring thorn in Israel\u2019s side after it weakened many of its enemies in the region, including Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
Since Israel\u2019s war in Gaza against the Palestinian militant group Hamas began in October 2023, the Houthis have attacked vessels in the Red Sea in what they describe as acts of solidarity with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n
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Houthi supporters chant slogans during a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo\/Osamah Abdulrahman)<\/p>\n
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