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It was unclear when Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Ghomari was killed, or by whom, but Israel appeared to claim the killing.
By Shuaib Almosawa and Vivian Nereim
Shuaib Almosawa reported from Sana, Yemen, and Vivian Nereim reported from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Oct. 16, 2025, 1:28 p.m. ET
The Houthi militia in Yemen said on Thursday that a senior military official had been killed, in what it described as an “Israeli-American” airstrike, without disclosing when.
Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Ghomari, the Houthi military’s chief of staff, was killed along with “some of his companions” and his 13-year-old son Hussain, the militia said in a statement.
It did not make clear whether the airstrike had been carried out by Israel — which has waged a bombing campaign against the Houthis that has intensified in recent months — or by the United States, which carried out a similar campaign that ended in May. However, it is common for Houthi officials to link Israeli attacks to the United States, because of U.S. military support for Israel.
Israel appeared to claim the attack in a statement on Thursday.
“The resolute hand of the State of Israel will reach everyone who aims to harm us,” the office of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said. “Another chief-of-staff in the line of terror chiefs who aimed to harm us was eliminated. We will reach all of them.”
It was unclear whether the current U.S.-backed cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas would also lead to an end to the back-and-forth attacks between Israel and the Houthis.
The Houthis began shooting missiles and drones at Israel and at commercial ships in the Red Sea after the war in Gaza began. The group has framed those attacks as a campaign to force Israel to end its bombardment of the Palestinian enclave, and allow more aid to enter it. Both the Houthis and Hamas, the militant group that attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, igniting the war in Gaza, are backed by Iran.
