Rasha Abdullah al-Harazi (; October 1996 â 9 November 2021) was a Yemeni journalist and photographer.
Rasha was born in 1996 in Hudeidah Governorate. She studied TV and radio at Hodeidah University. After graduation she worked for the Emirati news channels Al-Ain and Al-Sharq.
Rasha was assassinated on 9 November 2021 in Aden city by an explosion of a device planted on the car carrying her and her husband. Rasha was pregnant when she was murdered. Before her murder, she received many threats over her job as a journalist. No group claimed the responsibility, but her husband suspected the Houthi forces were behind the explosion.
The killing of Rasha al-Harazi was condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on the 10th of November. According to global monitoring on the safety of journalists by the Observatory of Killed journalist, al-Harazi was the onlyÃÂ media professional killed in Yemen in 2021.