Houthis claim responsibility for attack on govt headquarters in Aden

Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesperson, said the building housed what he described as a “Saudi war operations room”, and that any Saudi military or economic presence on Yemeni land would be a legitimate target of the armed forces.

The prime minister was reportedly unhurt in the attack. He took to social media, slamming the Ansar Allah group and calling this a “terrorist attack” aimed at disrupting state institutions and preventing or hindering the process of reversing what he called a “terrorist coup” against the internationally recognised Yemeni government.

He asserted that Yemen’s military operation would continue despite this attack until “every square inch of Yemen” was liberated from the control of the group, referring to continued military operations until they recapture the Yemeni capital, which fell to the Houthis in 2014.

On both sides, there seems to be a war of rhetoric, a war of narratives, in addition to the battles happening on the ground.

Each side is claiming justification for its military actions, and each side is vowing to continue fighting until its goals are achieved, reports AL Jazeera.