At least 5 killed in Houthi attack on Yemen’s presidential palace in Aden

Saudi-led conjugation accuses Houthis of obtaining rocket parts from determination states.

At slightest 5 radical person been killed successful the successful vicinity of the al-Maashiq statesmanlike palace successful Yemen’s larboard metropolis of Aden aft Houthi rocket strikes.

Yemeni wellness curate says 5 radical were killed and 16 others injured successful the Houthi rocket onslaught that targeted the al-Maashiq Presidential Palace successful Yemen’s Aden connected Thursday.

The Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said successful a societal media station connected Thursday that Houthis had targeted the al-Maashiq statesmanlike palace with 5 missiles.

The authorities says the premier curate and different officials are safe, but 2 of his bodyguards were killed successful the attack.

Plumes of fume could beryllium seen rising from the vicinity of the palace.

Al Jazeera correspondents reported earlier connected Thursday that determination were explosions adjacent the palace.

The palace is considered the office and the spot of powerfulness for the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government.

Al Jazeera’s Yousef Mawry, reporting from the Houthi-controlled superior Sanaa, said the attacks connected the office of the internationally recognised authorities are the “first of their kind” by the Houthis.

“This is an denotation that the escalation is going to intensify betwixt some sides,” Mawry said, adding that fears are present increasing wrong the state of “an all-out civilian war” that could perchance resistance successful different determination powers too Saudi Arabia.

The onslaught successful Aden came arsenic warring betwixt the Houthis, an equipped radical besides known arsenic Ansar Allah (Arabic for Supporters of God), and Saudi-backed forces intensified successful Taiz, which is efficaciously nether siege by the Houthis.

Controlling Taiz, Yemen’s 3rd metropolis and the broader Taiz governorate, successful the southwest of the state would guarantee power implicit the captious Bab al-Mandeb strait for either side.

Forces allied with the Yemeni authorities said they are repelling a Houthi onslaught connected Dhubab airport.

The pro-government Homeland Shield Force said successful a connection that they are, on with the Southern Giants Brigades, securing the airdrome successful the coastal metropolis of Dhubab successful Taiz governorate.

Buildings basal successful the southwestern metropolis of Taiz, Yemen, October 15, 2026 [Anees Mahyoub/Reuters]

Aid agencies accidental the escalating unit successful Taiz is pushing the healthcare strategy towards breaking point.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Public Health warned of a “humanitarian catastrophe” there.

Meanwhile, the Saudi-led conjugation says Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport has travel nether astatine slightest 20 Houthi attacks implicit the past 11 days with dozens of different airports, lipid facilities and ports besides targeted.

Major-General Turki al-Maliki, the spokesperson for the alliance, released footage showing strikes connected the main airdrome with passengers seen fleeing for safety, during a quality league successful the Saudi capital,

The conjugation says the Houthi attacks person killed 17 radical and injured much than 300.

Al-Maliki besides accused the Houthis of obtaining ballistic missiles from different countries successful the region.

Mohamad Elmasry, a prof astatine the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said the Saudi-led coalition’s quality league was intended arsenic a effect “to immoderate of the, perhaps, subject and information failures”.

“There’s benignant of an representation occupation determination due to the fact that this is possibly affecting the cognition of Saudi deterrence, the information that missiles are getting through,” helium told Al Jazeera.

Elmasry said the Houthis besides person an representation crisis, with the planetary assemblage viewing their actions arsenic “reprehensible, successful peculiar these targeting civilian infrastructure”.