The Chairman of the Supreme Political Council of the „Ansar Allah“ movement, Mahdi al-Mashat, appointed Mohammed Miftah as the head of the Yemeni Houthi government.
He was the first deputy to Ahmed Ghalib al-Rahawi, who was killed in an Israeli strike, the Houthi-owned „Saba“ news agency reported.
The prime minister of the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen was killed during Israeli airstrikes on Thursday in the capital Sanaa, Time of Israel reported.
Yesterday, the Yemeni channel „Al-Jumhuriya“ and the newspaper „Aden Al-Ghad“ reported that the Houthi prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli strike that also killed senior officials.
Reports suggest the attack targeted 10 senior Houthi ministers, Frognews reported. According to the Time of Israel, they had gathered in an apartment to listen to a speech by the group's leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, on television.
The outcome of the attack is still not entirely clear, although political sources quoted by Israeli news channel Channel 13 on Thursday said that "the attack appears to have been successful," and Ynet reported that "the entire Houthi military and government elite were probably eliminated in the attack."