Yemen’s Houthis Keep Targeting Government Forces. More Than 50 Died in the Latest Strike.

More than 50 people have died in Yemen after the Houthi rebels launched their latest attacks against against government forces.

The strike took place in a military camp in the southern province of Shabwa. Some 200 people were wounded as well.

The Shabwa government said the toll could keep rising. "This bloody, treacherous attack targeted new recruits in the training and preparation phase and is considered an extremely critical military escalation and a blatant aggression on the security and stability of Shabwa province," the government said in a statement.

At the same time, the head of Yemen's ruling Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, vowed a "firm response."

The Houthis also struck Yemen's presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden last week, killing two security personnel and injuring several others.

Five ballistic missiles struck al-Maashiq Palace, the headquarters of Yemen's internationally recognized government, while the prime minister and other cabinet ministers were inside the compound, according to Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani.

The prime minister and other senior officials escaped unharmed, but two members of the security forces were killed, and numerous others were wounded, al-Eryani told the BBC. The extent of the damage to the presidential compound was not immediately clear.

Houthi-controlled media acknowledged the strike but characterized its targets differently, reporting that the group had attacked what it described as a military operations headquarters commanded by Saudi officers, along with weapons storage facilities. The competing accounts could not be independently verified.

The attack on Aden followed an especially deadly strike in Saudi Arabia. On Saturday, a Houthi missile attack on Riyadh's international airport killed 13 people, marking the deadliest attack inside Saudi Arabia in more than a decade, according to the account of the incident.

The airport strike underscored the growing risks to civilian infrastructure as the conflict expands across national borders. Saudi Arabia has played a central role in Yemen's war, leading a military coalition that intervened in 2015 to support the internationally recognized government after the Houthis seized Sanaa and forced government leaders from the capital.

A United Nations-brokered truce in 2022 significantly reduced large-scale hostilities, but negotiations failed to produce a lasting political settlement. The renewed Saudi-backed offensive and retaliatory Houthi attacks have now brought the conflict into a more dangerous phase.

The humanitarian consequences remain severe. Yemen has endured years of displacement, economic collapse, and widespread shortages of essential supplies. In Taiz, where Houthi forces have maintained a siege, more than 600,000 people face restricted access to humanitarian assistance, according to reporting by the Associated Press.