The military commander of the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Muhammad al-Ghamari, has died, the Iran-backed group announced Thursday afternoon.

The group said in a lengthy statement that the high-ranking Houthi leader died alongside some of his companions and his 13-year-old son “in the course of his jihadist work” — without elaborating on the circumstances.

The Israel Defense Forces later confirmed that al-Ghamari had been killed in an August 28 airstrike in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which also killed the Houthi prime minister and around a dozen other top officials in the Iran-backed terror group.

Al-Ghamari was a member of the Houthis’ “Jihad Office,” led by Abdul Malik al-Houthi, responsible for overseeing military operations.

Though the Houthis did not directly blame Israel for his killing, the rebel group stressed that their conflict with the Jewish state had not ended.

Israel will “receive its deterrent punishment for the crimes it has committed,” the statement continued.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted following the announcement that “another chief of staff was eliminated from the ranks of terror leaders who sought to harm........

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