Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists announced on Thursday that their “chief of staff,” Muhammad Abd Al-Karim al-Ghamari, was killed “while fulfilling his duties,” indirectly blaming Israel for his death.
The terrorist organization warned that its two-year-long conflict with the Jewish state had not ended, saying Jerusalem would “receive its deterrent punishment.”
The Houthis have carried out countless missile and drone attacks on Israel—including a drone attack that wounded 22 Israelis in Eilat on Sept. 24—since the Hamas-led terrorist assault on Oct. 7, 2023.
In response to the attacks on civilian areas, Jerusalem has conducted several rounds of airstrikes against the Yemeni terrorist organization.
Al-Ghamari was targeted in the Aug. 28 Israeli Air Force operation that also eliminated the Houthis’ “prime minister,” Ahmed al-Rahawi, and multiple other senior officials in the Iranian terror proxy in Yemen.
Al-Rahawi had served in his role since August 2024. He was the most senior official to be killed by the Israeli military so far in the two years of fighting with the Houthis.
The Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday that al-Ghamari “played a central role in building Houthi missile systems and weapons-production infrastructure, trained by Hezbollah and IRGC.”
His death “delivers a severe blow to the Houthi command structure, responsible for hundreds of attacks against Israel during the war,” it stated.
Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office warned in a statement on Thursday that the “determined hand of the State of Israel will reach everyone who sought to harm us and set themselves the goal of destroying Israel.
“Another chief of staff has been eliminated among a string of terrorist commanders who sought to harm us. We will reach them all,” vowed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz commended on Thursday the IDF’s operations against the “significant threats” from Yemen, adding that the military would also neutralize “any threat in the future.”
Al-Ghamari “joins his friends, the eliminated members of the Axis of Evil, in the depths of hell,” Katz wrote in a Hebrew-language X post.
“I visited the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate’s ‘Houthi command center’ and thanked Military Intelligence head Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder, and the rest of the directorate’s personnel for the excellent work they have done—and will continue to do—against the Houthis,” he added.
