The Houthi movement has issued its first official response to the killing of Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, warning that Israel has “crossed all red lines” and that revenge is inevitable.
Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior figure in the Houthis’ political bureau, spoke to the Al-Mayadeen network on Sunday, one day after the group confirmed that al-Rahawi and several cabinet ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital, Sana’a.
“The attack on the prime minister’s meeting by Israel is a crossing of all the red lines in this campaign, and there is no escaping revenge,” al-Bukhaiti declared.
He further accused Israel of spreading its military campaign across multiple fronts:
“We remind Israel that, in the end, they will pay the price for all the crimes they are committing in Yemen, in Palestine, in Lebanon, or in Syria. Once Israel crossed the red lines, the war entered a new stage.”
