The facts
Yemen's information minister, Moammar al-Eryani, told the BBC that five people were killed and 16 injured in a Houthi missile attack targeting al-Maashiq Palace in Aden. The prime minister and other ministers were reported to be unharmed. The Houthis' military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, claimed they struck the Saudi enemy's military operations headquarters in Aden. The Yemeni health minister, Qasim Buhaibeh, stated that casualties included "those working to guard the site and civilian employees." Prime Minister Shaya Zindani condemned the attack as "cowardly." The attack occurred as the Saudi-led coalition backs the government against the Iran-backed Houthis. Earlier, the coalition reported intercepting a cruise missile in the Medina region of Saudi Arabia. The Houthis have been launching missiles and drones at Saudi targets in retaliation for strikes on territory they control in western Yemen. Saudi Arabia's deputy foreign minister accused Iran of encouraging the Houthis to escalate the conflict, a claim Iran has previously denied.
Our take
The Houthis have officially upgraded their military strategy from 'terroristic thuggery' to 'cosplaying as a competent fighting force,' and the results are the same pile of dead civilians. Their military spokesman, Yahya Sarea, looked at a palace full of politicians and paper-pushers, launched a missile at it, and then had the galaxy-brained audacity to claim they’d actually struck the 'Saudi enemy's military operations headquarters.' Right. And my arse is a precision-guided munition. This is the militant equivalent of shitting your pants at a party and insisting you meant to create a new art installation called 'Brown Ambiance.' The sheer, staggering vanity of these pricks, trying to spin a bloody attack on a civilian-guarded administrative building into some heroic blow against the Saudi war machine, is enough to make a vulture puke. They killed guards and office workers. They missed the prime minister and his cabinet entirely. So congratulations, you absolute cunts, you managed to be both murderous and laughably incompetent in a single strike. It’s the hallmark of a group whose entire existence is a monument to failure, propped up by Iranian spare parts and a bottomless capacity for lies. Meanwhile, Saudi deputies are pointing at Iran, Iran is denying it, and a bunch of bastards in Yemen are using human lives for target practice before crafting the most transparently horseshit press release imaginable. The only 'military operations headquarters' they hit was the one in their own deluded fantasies. Fuck every last one of them for this cowardly, pathetic display. They’re not soldiers; they’re just assassins with a press office, and they’re shit at both jobs. The five people they killed deserved better than to be erased by these clowns and their comic-book villain excuses. Next time, try aiming for your own fucking dignity, you dickheads. It’s a much bigger target. 346 words. Total packet and take: 529 words.
