Iran Press/Middle East: According to a statement carried by al-Masirah TV channel, Ibrahim al-Houthi was killed by “treacherous hands affiliated with the US-Israeli-Saudi aggression”.
The movement did not provide details on how or when Houthi was killed, but it threatened to “pursue and arrest the criminal tools that carried out the crime”.
Ibrahim al-Houthi is not the movement's first prominent official to be the victim of a targeted assassination.
In April 2018, the Houthi Ansarullah' political leader, negotiator and military commander Saleh al-Samad was killed in a likely targeted air strike.
Other Yemeni sources reported that al-Houthi's body, along with a number of Houthi commanders, had been discovered in a house following a Saudi strike in the city of Haddeh in Yemen's west-central province of Sana’a.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
However, resistance by Yemen’s armed forces, led by the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has pushed the Saudi war to a stalemate, with Yemeni forces increasingly using sophisticated weaponry in retaliatory attacks against the coalition.
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