The top leaders of the Houthi armed forces were celebrating, but they were hit on the spot by a ground-penetrating bomb, and the top leaders, including the "Prime Minister", were taken in a pot.
Comprehensive CCTV news and Middle East media reports, Israel launched an air strike on the Yemeni capital Sanaa on August 28, 2025, targeting a celebration meeting of senior Houthi officials.
For this Israeli attack on the Houthis, we need to know three important details.
The first important detail is that the losses of the Houthi armed forces were very severe, and the Houthi armed forces confirmed that their self-proclaimed “prime minister” and several “ministers of cabinet” were killed in the attack. In fact, although they were called local armed forces, the Houthi has already had a basic administrative system inside, such as this attack, which is basically the Houthi armed government structure, was directly destroyed.
The second important detail is that this attack was the first successful Israeli assassination of senior Houthi officials.Foreign media have pointed out that this was retaliation for the repeated missile launches by Houthis armed against Israel.
Then we may have to consider how the intelligence leaked out of the gathering of senior officials of the Houthi armed forces. In addition to the "prime minister", there are also the "defense minister", "foreign minister" and others who died under the attack of this earth-penetrating bomb.
Is it the same within the Houthis as inside Iran?Deeply penetrated by Israel? Don't rule out this possibilityThis reminds me of the explosion of the caller bombing in Lebanon, when Hezbollah suffered great losses.
So the third important detail, would the Houthis have the capability, or would they dare to continue to attack Israel, such as hitting their airports and continuing to intercept Israeli cargo ships in the Red Sea?
It is still unclear, after all, that the leader of the Houthi armed forces, Abdullah, is still alive, but the serious injury is inevitable.
I personally believe that the Houthis should temporarily restrain themselves, because everyone has seen that all their defense ministers and foreign ministers have been killed, and internal coordination will take some time.
But in the medium term, the Houthi armed forces will surely increase their retaliation against Israel and increase their efforts to block the Red Sea.Why do we say this?Because the Houthi armed forces are not unbeaten, but in the past many years, the U.S.-led NATO forces have not fought the Houthi armed forces once or twice.
In 2019, Saudi Arabia launched a “decisive storm” operation against the Houthi armed forces, with Israel and Western countries also involved in the operation, with the Houthi armed forces released data at the time that they were subjected to 250,000 airstrikes, more than 500,000 missiles, bombs and cannon bombs dropped, of which 60,000 were cluster bombs.
However, even such attacks did not completely eliminate the Houthi armed forces, and in recent years, the Houthi armed forces have gradually risen, providing the Palestinian people with the most powerful operational support in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Overall, the Israeli strike on the Houthi armed forces is indeed a traumatic existence, but such local armed ties with the people are continuous, and history has continuously proved this.