The Houthis have confirmed that their Military Chief of Staff, Muhammad Abd Al-Karim al-Ghamari, who was wounded in an Israeli airstrike, succumbed to his wounds.
The IDF confirmed the elimination, stating: "Following an IDF strike targeting senior members of the Houthi terror regime on August 28th, 2025, it is now confirmed that the Houthi Chief of the General Staff, Muhammad al-Ghamari, was eliminated."
Al-Ghamari was appointed Chief of Staff in 2016 after holding a series of senior positions in the Houthi terror regime. Over the years, he played a key role in building the military capabilities of the Houthi terror regime, particularly in establishing its missile systems and weapons-production infrastructure.
As part of his role, al-Ghamari received training by terrorists from the Hezbollah terrorist organization and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) organizations in Syria, Lebanon, and Iran.
According to the IDF, "The elimination of the Houthi General Chief of Staff represents a severe blow to the Houthi terror regime and to its chain of command, which orchestrated hundreds of terror attacks against the State of Israel during the war."
Israel had attacked large concentrations of Houthi officials on multiple occasions, but the Chief of Staff reportedly escaped each time.
Some of the strikes were carried out during an address by Houthi leaders.
The Houthi-backed Prime Minister, as well as much of his cabinet, was eliminated at the time.
Defense Minister Israel Katz commented: "The Houthi terrorist organization has now announced that the Houthi chief of staff, who was killed in the attack that eliminated most of the Houthi leadership in Yemen, has died of his wounds and thus joined his fellow members of the Axis of Evil in the depths of hell."
"I visited the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate Houthi department and thanked the director of Military Intelligence, Major General Shlomi Binder, and the rest of the staff for the excellent work they have done and will do in the future against the Houthis."
"We have worked hard to remove significant threats - and so we will do in the future against any that arise."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented: "Another chief-of-staff in the line of terror chiefs who aimed to harm us was eliminated. We will reach all of them."