SANAA: The military chief of Yemen's Ansar Allah has been killed in an Israeli attack, the group said on Thursday, threatening revenge.
Major General Mohammed al Ghamari died in "honourable battle against the Israeli enemy", a military statement said, without giving further details.
His death was announced days into a ceasefire in the two-year Gaza war, during which the Ansar Allah repeatedly attacked Israeli targets and cargo ships in the Red Sea.
Ghamari died alongside "companions" and his 13-year-old son, the statement said, without giving the date of the attack.
The group's general staff headquarters in Sanaa was among the targets of the last major Israeli air strikes on Yemen in late September, Israel's military said at the time.
But Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz posted on X on Thursday that Ghamari "died of his wounds" after a strike in late August that killed the Ansar Allah prime minister and half his cabinet.
"The rounds of conflict with the enemy have not ended, and the Zionist enemy (Israel) will receive its deterrent punishment for the crimes it has committed," the Ansar Allah statement said.
Their statement said they had carried out 758 military operations deploying 1,835 munitions, including drones and missiles, during their campaign. — AFP
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