Yemen to continue anti-Israel operations to avenge slain PM, ministers: Ansarullah official

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti said on Sunday night that the strikes will be carried out relentlessly to take revenge for the Israeli aerial assault that killed Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi and several other ministers in Sana’a on August 28.

“Our operations will not cease until the set goals are attained. The Zionist enemy should know that the blood of our martyred leaders and ministers will not be wasted away,” Bukhaiti said.

The Ansarullah said in a statement on August 30 that Rahawi, who served as the prime minister of the Government of Change and Construction, was targeted along with other members of the cabinet during a workshop.

“We shall take vengeance, and we shall forge from the depths of wounds a victory,” Mahdi al-Mashat, the chairman of Yemen's Supreme Political Council, said in a video message at the time.

Bukhaiti’s remarks came shortly after a Yemeni unmanned aerial vehicle breached the airspace over the Israeli-occupied territories, penetrated Israeli air defenses, and struck its target at Ramon Airport near the southern city of Eilat.

Footage circulated on social media platforms showed the explosion of the Yemeni aircraft and smoke rising from the site in the aftermath.