Houthis Announce Death of Senior Commander Qubari

Man sitting in front of house rubble in Taiz, Yemen, as residents claim Houthi rockets killed 14 civilians. Photo: Reuters
Man sitting in front of house rubble in Taiz, Yemen, as residents claim Houthi rockets killed 14 civilians. Photo: Reuters
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Houthis Announce Death of Senior Commander Qubari

Man sitting in front of house rubble in Taiz, Yemen, as residents claim Houthi rockets killed 14 civilians. Photo: Reuters
Man sitting in front of house rubble in Taiz, Yemen, as residents claim Houthi rockets killed 14 civilians. Photo: Reuters

Yemen’s internationally-recognized government confirmed its determination to liberate the southwestern province of Taiz from coup militias’ hold. For the past three years, the province has been under blockade and witnessed fierce battles.

Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr said that the legitimate government headed by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi “pays particular attention to Taiz province.”

“The political leadership and the government are working hard to overcome the difficulties facing the heroes of the national army,” he said.

On the other hand, Iran-backed Houthi militias have announced the death of a senior Houthi military commander.

“Major-General Nasser Hussein al-Qubari was killed while carrying out his national duties,” Houthi-run SABA reported on Thursday.

This coincided with the killing of another senior military commander at the west coast battlefront in Yemen, where fighting continues amid a sweeping pro-government national army forces advance.
Coup forces have been struggling to regain positions lost.

“Houthi leader Lieutenant Colonel Amin Saleh Abdo al-Khudshi, an officer of the 33rd Armored Brigade and a number of his companions were neutralized by an Arab Coalition air strike on Wednesday evening in the west coast front of Taiz,” Taiz military center spokesman Col. Abdul Basset al-Bahr told Asharq Al-Awsat.

Yemen has been embroiled in a war between the Iran-backed Houthis and the internationally recognized government, which is allied with a Saudi-led Arab coalition, since March 2015. The coalition aims to restore the legitimate government of President Hadi to power.

Intense fighting continues to rattle Al Bayda province and west of Taiz, with Arab Coalition air support backing government fighters on the ground.

Alternatively, Coupists suffered large-scale losses in combatants and arsenal north of Taiz.

“Houthis blew up civilian homes in retaliation for mounting losses in their battles with pro-government popular resistance from the people of the region,” local sources in Al Hima neighborhood in Taiz told Asharq Al-Awsat.

Sources also said that coup militiamen had destroyed an underground water well, which disabled a number of water pumps. The damage done to the water network is believed to forcibly displace locals and isolate the region.

Houthis have also taken a number of people, including women and children as hostages to later be used as human shields, pushing civilians to the front line in battles with the Popular Resistance.



94 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Including 45 People Waiting for Aid

A Palestinian inspects the damage at a school sheltering displaced people, following an overnight Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, July 3, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
A Palestinian inspects the damage at a school sheltering displaced people, following an overnight Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, July 3, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
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94 Palestinians Killed in Gaza, Including 45 People Waiting for Aid

A Palestinian inspects the damage at a school sheltering displaced people, following an overnight Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, July 3, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
A Palestinian inspects the damage at a school sheltering displaced people, following an overnight Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, July 3, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Airstrikes and shootings killed 94 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 45 while attempting to get much-needed humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said Thursday.

Israel’s military did not have immediate comment on the strikes, The Associated Press reported.

Five people were killed while outside sites associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the newly created, secretive American organization backed by Israel to feed the Gaza Strip’s population, while 40 others were killed waiting for aid trucks in other locations across the Gaza Strip.

Dozens of people were killed in airstrikes that pounded the Strip Wednesday night and Thursday morning, including 15 people killed in strikes that hit tents in the sprawling Muwasi zone, where many displaced Palestinians are sheltering, and a strike on a school in Gaza City sheltering displaced people.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has passed 57,000, including 223 missing people who have been declared dead. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its death count but says that more than half of the dead are women and children.

The deaths come as Israel and Hamas inch closer to a possible ceasefire that would end the 21-month war.

Trump said Tuesday that Israel had agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept the deal before conditions worsen. But Hamas’ response, which emphasized its demand that the war end, raised questions about whether the latest offer could materialize into an actual pause in fighting.

The Israeli military blames Hamas for the civilian casualties because it operates from populated areas. The military said it targeted Hamas members and rocket launchers in northern Gaza that launched rockets towards Israel on Wednesday.

The war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages.

The war has left the coastal Palestinian territory in ruins, with much of the urban landscape flattened in the fighting. More than 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million population has been displaced, often multiple times. And the war has sparked a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, leaving hundreds of thousands of people hungry.