HUNDREDS of Yemenis in the capital city of Sanaa today mourned the loss of Houthi Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi, who was killed last Thursday along with a number of ministers and government officials by an Israeli air strike.

Attendees gathered for the funeral of the Houthi officials, which was held at Shaab Mosque and broadcast by the Al-Masirah TV satellite news channel.

Crowds inside the mosque, where funeral prayers were held, chanted against Israel and the United States as they mourned the deaths of the officials, including the foreign affairs, media and culture and industrial ministers.

Funeral attendees Ahmed Khaled and Fathy Mahmoud said that the families of the officials arrived in ambulances for the funeral, where the bodies were placed in caskets inside the mosque.

“We’re participating in this funeral because Israel killed those officials and that’s enough reason to attend their funeral,” Ahmed Azam, another attendee said.

Mr Rahawi was the most senior Houthi official to be killed in the Israeli-US campaign against the Yemenis. Other ministers and officials were wounded, the statement added without providing details.

The Yemenis said in a statement earlier that the officials were targeted during a “routine workshop held by the government to evaluate its activities and performance over the past year.”