🚨 Israel Just Assassinated Yemen’s Prime Minister. They Want Us All To Act Like This Is Normal.
Al Jazeera confirms Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and several ministers were killed in Sanaa. International law forbids it. America shields it anyway.
Family, what just happened is almost beyond belief. Israel bombed the capital of Yemen and killed Ahmed al-Rahawi, the sitting Prime Minister. Several of his ministers died with him. Imagine any other nation on Earth killing another country’s prime minister by air strike — and then treating it as routine.
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The Prime Minister They Killed
On Thursday, August 28, Israeli aircraft struck Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. According to Al Jazeera, one of the leading international news outlets, the Houthis confirmed that their prime minister, Ahmed al-Rahawi, was killed instantly, along with several cabinet ministers who were meeting with him at the time. Al-Rahawi was the head of government in areas controlled by the Houthi movement, which has ruled much of northern Yemen since 2014, and his office served the Houthi-run “Government of Change and Construction.”
In a formal statement, the Houthi presidency declared:
“We announce the martyrdom of the mujahid Ahmed Ghaleb al-Rahawi, prime minister of the Government of Change and Construction, along with several of his fellow ministers, on Thursday.”
Israeli media added, citing unnamed sources, that the strike targeted the cabinet as a whole. Let me repeat that - they intended to murder the ENTIRE GOVERNMENT CABINET OF YEMEN.
Within hours, the Israeli military framed the attack as a precision operation against “a Houthi terrorist regime military target,” choosing language that collapses the distinction between a civilian political leadership and a military objective.
Facts matter here. This was not a strike on a missile silo or a rocket workshop. It was a hit on political leadership gathered for a government session. Ahmed al-Rahawi, the civilian head of government was the target — and he was killed. No nation may murder another’s prime minister.
Israel’s Own Words
Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, did not even try to hide the doctrine behind this strike. As reported by Al Jazeera, he said he wanted to target Houthi leadership “similar to what Israel has done with assassinations within other political groups across the region, like Hezbollah, like Hamas, like Islamic Jihad.” That sentence is an admission of method. Assassination by missile is political murder. What was once reserved for militant commanders and clandestine operatives is now applied to a head of government.
Supporters will say: the Houthis attack ships in the Red Sea; they fired a missile that Israel says it intercepted; their leaders are combatants. Even if you accept every one of those claims at face value, the law is clear: killing a head of government in his capital, outside an imminent battlefield engagement, is not “self-defense.” It is a decision to obliterate the civilian leadership of a rival authority by air power. This is an illegal act of war.
The Law in Plain English
The world wrote rules to prevent exactly this. The United Nations Charter — the closest thing we have to a constitution for relations among states — prohibits using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state except in response to an imminent armed attack, or with explicit UN Security Council authorization. That’s Article 2(4) reduced to plain English. An airstrike that kills a sitting prime minister at a cabinet meeting does not fit those narrow exceptions. It is an unlawful use of force.
International humanitarian law — the law of armed conflict — adds its own protections. The principle of distinctionrequires separating civilians from combatants; the principle of proportionality forbids attacks that cause excessive civilian harm relative to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated; the obligation of precautions requires choosing means and methods of warfare that minimize civilian loss. A prime minister in a workshop is not a soldier on a battlefield. International law is being openly mocked.
When we speak of international law in this context, we must also speak of impunity. Israel and the United States openly mock these rules, refuse to follow them, and have even sanctioned judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court simply for filing charges against Israeli leaders for obvious war crimes. If the referees are punished for blowing the whistle, the game has no rules. Impunity destroys the rules meant to restrain war.
Why This Is a Breaker of Norms
Sisters and brothers, there has long been a grim record of targeted killings: leaders in Gaza and Lebanon, scientists in Tehran and Damascus, executives gunned down in hotel lobbies or blown up in cars. Those operations were illegal too, but the world’s political class looked away. Even in that dark history, a line remained — states generally avoided murdering each other’s heads of government. The reason was not decency; it was fear. Cross that line and you invite chaos.
Israel has now crossed it. And because Washington supplies the bombs, the money, and the diplomatic shield, a murder that should shatter the system is being normalized as a counterterrorism success. If this stands, it becomes a precedent.If it becomes a precedent, it becomes a template. And once there is a template, other governments will use it. What restrains Russia from striking a prime minister in Eastern Europe, or China from striking one in Taipei, after we accept the assassination of a Yemeni prime minister in his own capital?
Gaza Is the Mirror
Yemen is not an isolated theater. It is a mirror of the open contempt for law we have watched in Gaza since October 7th: the blockade that starves civilians, the bombing of hospitals, the destruction of entire neighborhoods under doctrines so elastic they cover everything. The same logic just leapt a border and ascended a rank. A state that starves and bombs without consequence will, in time, kill civilian leaders without consequence. The target set expands as impunity grows.
This is why Israel’s strike on Sanaa cannot be framed as another bout in a regional tit-for-tat. It is the degradation of the very idea that war has limits. The idea that sovereignty protects political leadership from aerial assassination. The idea that civilians — including the civilian head of government — are not fair game. When those ideas die, law dies with them.
The American Role
None of this happens in a vacuum. The United States is not a spectator; it is an enabler. American weapons, financing, and diplomatic cover transformed what should be an international scandal into a 24-hour headline. The moment the International Criminal Court sought to act, Washington sanctioned the Court rather than the culprits. The message is unmistakable: Law that spares the powerful is no law.
Americans must understand what that means. If law does not apply to the powerful, then law is not law. It is a costume for violence. And a costume can be worn by anyone: today an ally, tomorrow an adversary. We do not live outside the consequences we create; we live under them.
The Reckoning We Owe the Dead
Prime Minister al-Rahawi a martyr. Labels will be debated for years — about legitimacy, about recognition, about the complexity of Yemen’s civil war. But some truths are not up for debate. A prime minister was killed by a foreign airstrike in his capital. His ministers died with him. The attack was justified after the fact as a strike on “leadership.” The world shrugged, again.
Family, it is not enough to name the crime. We have to name the precedent. If the powerful can murder prime ministers and call it self-defense, then the rules that protect the weak are gone. If the rules are gone, every conflict will slide toward the darkest century of state violence — the century our grandparents wrote these rules to prevent. The stakes could not be higher for Gaza, for Yemen, for all of us.
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