The prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa, according to the rebel group, in the first such attack to kill senior officials.

A number of others were wounded in Thursday’s strike, said Mahdi al-Mashat, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council , without providing details.

Israel said on Friday that the airstrike had targeted the Iran-aligned group ‘s chief of staff, defence minister and other senior officials and that it was verifying the outcome.

Mashat’s statement did not make clear whether the Houthi defence minister was among the casualties.

Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi became prime minister around a year ago, but the de facto leader of the government was his deputy, Mohamed Moftah, who wa

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