A Houthi spokesperson said two drones and a missile were used against a vessel in the northern Red Sea over alleged Israeli ties, with no independent maritime confirmation reported. The announcement came two days after the group claimed a missile hit on the Israeli-owned chemical tanker Scarlet Ray near Saudi Arabia’s port of Yanbu. Israeli officials said an August 28 airstrike in Sanaa targeted a gathering of Houthi officials and killed Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser Al-Rahawi and several ministers, a loss the Houthis also acknowledged. The IDF described the Sanaa strike as a complex, real-time intelligence operation and part of a tactical shift from hitting military sites to precision strikes on senior figures, noting it was the 16th IAF strike in the Yemen campaign. The U.N. envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, condemned new Houthi detentions of U.N. personnel, and the World Food Programme reported a staff member was also detained.
