The impoverished and deeply unstable southern Arabian peninsula country of Yemen on Tuesday officially declared war on Israel, sources on Twitter reported incorrectly as they don’t understand that when the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels call themselves the “Yemeni Armed Forces,” it doesn’t actually mean that they’re the government of Yemen. The Houthis did launch missiles at Israel on Tuesday, but given the attacks were deflected fairly easily by the Iron Dome, per the IDF.
This is obviously not good news, but it’s very, very short of the apocalyptic escalation people have been fearing in the weeks since the Hamas attack. So don’t freak the fuck out if you see someone posting “YEMEN DECLARES WAR ON ISRAEL!!!11!!” The Houthis are non-state actors.