Houthi missile attack on Yemeni presidential palace kills two, minister says — SkimNews
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- Houthis fired five ballistic missiles at al-Maashiq Palace in Aden, killing two security personnel and injuring many others; the prime minister and other ministers escaped unharmed, Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani told the BBC.
- Yahya Sarea, the Houthis' military spokesman, claimed the strike hit "the Saudi enemy's military operations headquarters in Aden" — framing the target as a Saudi military site rather than Yemen's government.
- Prime Minister Shaya Zindani condemned the attack as "cowardly" and vowed to continue operations against the Houthis on Yemen's south-western Red Sea coast and other front lines.
- The Houthis denied attacking Saudi Arabia on Thursday after the coalition said it intercepted a cruise missile in the Medina region, home to one of Islam's holiest shrines — the same day as the Aden strike.
- A Saturday Houthi missile strike killed 13 people at Riyadh's international airport, the deadliest attack in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade, after a four-year ceasefire began unraveling in July.
- Saudi Arabia's deputy foreign minister Rayed Krimly accused Iran of arming, training, and supporting the Houthis "in violation of UN Security Council resolutions," while Tehran has denied supplying weapons and said it is ready to facilitate talks.
- Yemen's health ministry says at least 1,282 people have been killed and 5,890 injured since August 6, with the UN reporting another 201,000 displaced and an alarming surge in suspected cholera cases.
Why it matters: Saudi Arabia's deputy FM directly accused Iran of arming the Houthis in violation of UN resolutions, contradicting Tehran's denials and raising the diplomatic stakes. The Houthis have now struck both Yemen's government in Aden and reached within missile range of one of Islam's holiest sites in Medina, marking a geographic expansion of the campaign.
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