Report: Houthi ‘Prime Minister,’ Military Chief and Other Top Terror Commanders Killed in Israeli Airstrike
IDF recovers body of hostage Ilan Weiss, who was murdered by Hamas on October 7.
An Israeli airstrike on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, eliminated the ‘prime minister’ of the Houthi regime and several other terror operatives, Arab and European media outlets report.
“The Houthi prime minister is said to have been killed in a series of Israeli air strikes that hit the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday,” London-based newspaper The Telegraph reported Friday morning.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli officials have not yet commented on the outcome of the strike.
⚡ BREAKING: The Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli attack in Sanaa – I24News pic.twitter.com/paG2wBd8dX
— OSINT Updates (@OsintUpdates) August 29, 2025
Thursday’s airstrike came after the Iran-backed terrorist group fired a ballistic missile carrying a cluster bomb on Israel over the weekend. In recent days, Israeli air defense systems intercepted several missiles and drones fired by Houthis from their terror bases in Yemen.
Boom 💥
Houthi Defense Minister Muhammad al-Atifi and Chief of Staff Muhammad al-Ghamari reportedly eliminated in IDF strikes pic.twitter.com/Q3d8t694N7
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) August 28, 2025
Besides the Houthis ‘prime minister,’ defense minister, and military chief of the Iran-sponsored terrorist regime were also eliminated in the said strike, news reports suggest.
“Iran-backed Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s capital Thursday which targeted senior military officials including the group’s defence minister, according to Yemeni media reports and Israeli officials,” the French TV channel Euronews reported. “Israeli officials said they believe the strikes eliminated Houthi Defence Minister Mohamed al-Atifi and Chief of Staff Muhammad Abd Al-Karim al-Ghamari during a cabinet meeting of senior officials outside Sanaa. Al-Ghamari had previously been wounded in an earlier Israeli attack.”
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Israel’s Channel 12 reports increasing assessments that today’s airstrikes likely ELIMINATED Houthi Defense Minister Muhammad al-Atifi and Chief of Staff Muhammad al-Ghamari. pic.twitter.com/iZAtmeYsaT
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 28, 2025
In what sounds similar to Israel’s decapitation of Iran’s military and IRGC terrorist leadership during the 12-Day War in mid-June, the Israeli fighter jets reportedly struck a gathering of top Houthi leadership.
“According to reports, the target was a gathering of senior officials preparing to watch the weekly address of the group’s leader, Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi,” the Israeli news website Ynetnews reported Friday. “Israeli officials are now checking whether the attack succeeded in killing the Houthis’ defense minister, Mohamed al-Atifi, and the group’s chief of staff, Muhammad Abd Al-Karim al-Ghamari.”
The Telegraph revealed some of the Intelligence work that led to the precision strike:
Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in an apartment along with others, according to reports in local media. (…)
Israeli intelligence learned at around 1pm that 10 Houthi ministers, including the minister of defense, and senior officials had gathered outside Sanaa to hear a speech by the group’s leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the Times of Israel reported, citing unnamed Israeli security officials.
The IDF then launched a strike targeting the meeting. It remains unclear if the Houthi chief of staff, Muhammad al-Ghamari, was present or whether the strikes were successful in killing other Houthi leaders.
Israeli intelligence provided real-time details of the gathering, enabling the strike, which was carried out despite heavy air defences in the area.
The Houthis, whose slogan says: “Allah is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam,” declared war on Israel in November 2023, a month after Hamas’s October 7 massacre. Since then, the Iran-sponsored Islamic jihadist group has launched hundreds of missiles and drones towards Israeli towns and cities. As part of Iran’s war on Israel, Houthis have been trying to impose a maritime blockade on the Jewish State, hijacking and sinking Western-owned cargo ships in the Red Sea.
The moment Israel 🇮🇱 eliminated the top brass of Yemeni Houthis earlier today 👇 pic.twitter.com/emlPDtwsej
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) August 28, 2025
IDF recovers the body of hostage Ilan Weiss, who was murdered by Hamas on October 7
The Israeli military recovered the body of Ilan Weiss, a 55-year-old hostage murdered by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The remains of another unnamed hostage were also brought back as part of the operation, the IDF confirmed.
“The body of Ilan Weiss was recovered from the Gaza Strip in an IDF operation, along with findings linked to another deceased hostage, whose name has not yet been cleared for publication,” the military said in a statement on Friday.
Body of Deceased Hostage Ilan Weiss Recovered
The body of Ilan Weiss, who was held hostage for 693 days in Gaza, has been recovered in a joint IDF and ISA military operation.
Ilan was from kibbutz Be’eri and left his home on the morning of October 7 to join the kibbutz… pic.twitter.com/nk7rVxGTs7
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 29, 2025
Ilan’s wife and daughter were also kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and were released in exchange for Palestinian terrorists after 50 days of captivity.
“Ilan Weiss, a member of Kibbutz Be’eri, was brutally murdered and abducted from his home by Hamas terrorists on October 7th 2023. He was 55 years old at the time of his death,” the IDF statement added. “After his abduction, his wife, Shiri, and daughter, Noga, were also kidnapped, and were later returned as part of the previous hostage release agreement in November 2023.”
I offer my heartfelt condolences and support to the Weiss family and the community of Kibbutz Be’eri upon the recovery of the body of hostage Ilan Weiss, of blessed memory.
692 days after he was brutally kidnapped with his wife Shiri and their daughter Noga, Ilan’s body was… pic.twitter.com/PK4uKm3hdB
— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) August 29, 2025
Weiss, who also served as a first responder for his community, “was killed while defending Kibbutz Be’eri against invading Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, and his body was taken to Gaza,” The Times of Israel observed.
“Ilan Weiss, champion of courage, served on the community emergency response unit of Kibbutz Be’eri. He was killed on October 7, 2023, while going to protect the kibbutz, and his remains were kidnapped. His spouse, Shiri, and daughter, Noga, were kidnapped and freed from imprisonment in November 2023,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday.
While the IDF prepares to capture the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City, terrorists still hold 20 living hostages and the bodies of 30 others. “Of the 251 hostages taken in the Hamas-led jihadist offensive on October 7, 2023, roughly 50 remain in Gaza including 20 that Israel believes to be alive,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS noted Friday.
“He didn’t hesitate for a second.”
On October 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists stormed into southern Israel, 56-year-old Ilan Weiss rushed to defend his kibbutz. As deputy head of the emergency response team in Be’eri, he learned the security chief had just been killed at the… pic.twitter.com/DCqM3QwAHK
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) August 29, 2025
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Good. Kill more of them. Kill them all.
The Houthi had a Prime minister
Who knew?
Chief goat f@$#%r, now dead
“Had” being the operative word. Wonder who will be stupid enough to take the job now.
Applying what Democrats said yesterday in Minneapolis to today’s news, there is not need to offer thoughts and prayers for the Houthis.
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Eliminated is an understatement. That fireball was sufficiently large enough to ensure there was nothing left of him but disorganized organic matter.
And yet he deserved so much worse.
Now, is it that the Israelis are so smart or their Muslim opponents are so stupid?
It is the will of Allah.
That was a secondary explosion (along with the later fireball). It looked like the IAF might have hit a natural gas storage vessel, one directly then another cooked off. Explosives just flash and bang, and kick up a lot of dirt and dust, and can produce copious smoke. That strike almost certainly hit stored fuel of some sort.
Anyway you look at it, they hit the right target.
so they wiped out some future members of the us congress
Yemen is 4th world basket case. It split into two countries during civil war. Then it recombined into one country, but nobody knows who is in charge, not even the people of yemen. Its been that way for several generations. Yemen is not going to fix itself.