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The attack was done by the "yemeni armed forces" which is the official military of yemen.
However, yemen has been in a civil war since 2014, with command of the military split between the government and the hoithi rebels.
The spokesperson who took credit for the attack in the article, yahya saree is described by wikipedia as being part of the houthi faction.
This seems to be much less of an official yemeni military action than the text of the article might lead you to believe.
The Houthis are the government. The fake Western-Saudi backed rebels control less than 20% of the country and are only claimed to be the government by people halfway across the globe
The majority of the Yemeni population is under the Houthi government. Aside from relations with other countries, they are pretty much the de facto current government of Yemen.
Describing the Houthis as illegitimate rebels now is akin to describing John Hancock and James Madison as illegitimate rebels in 1780.