Sanaa, Aug. 29 -- Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi, the Prime Minister of the Houthis-run Yemeni government, has reportedly been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the capital, Sanaa.

Yemen's Al-Jumhuriya television and the Aden Al-Ghad newspaper reported on Friday, August 29, that al-Rahawi died in an Israeli attack on an apartment late on Thursday, August 28. They also claimed that several of his close aides were killed in the same strike.

The raid marked Israel's second round of airstrikes on Houthi-controlled Sanaa in less than a week. According to Israeli Hebrew-language media, Thursday's strikes targeted a meeting of senior Houthi political and military figures.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that Houthi Defence Minister Mohamed al-Atifi and C...