India, Aug. 30 -- The Israeli strikes on Saturday killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled Yemen government in capital Sanaa, the Houthis said.

Ahmed al-Rahawi was killed in an Israeli strike on Thursday in Sanaa along with a number of ministers, the rebels said in a statement.

The Israeli military said it "precisely struck a Houthi terrorist regime military target in the area of Sanaa in Yemen."

"We announce the martyrdom of the fighter Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser Al-Rahawi... along with several of his ministerial colleagues, as they were targeted by the treacherous Israeli criminal enemy," the statement said, according to AFP.

Al-Rahawi, who served as prime minister to the Houthi-led government since August 2024, was targeted along...