Houthi officials said the death toll from an airstrike on a prison in Al-Jawf rose to 23, with seven still missing. [1] The Los Angeles Times filed Wednesday's count. [1] Twenty-three is the named clock. Print 23. Do not spend a later ministry table that belongs to a later edition.

A prison in Al-Hazm is not a Red Sea port and not a closed Bab. Saudi confirmation is not in this Times file. Print the Houthi count as a Houthi count. Leave a named independent investigation to the edition that owns a named investigation.

Print 23. Print seven missing. Wednesday is not a closed Yemen file.

Twenty-three remains the Times count, not a later ministry table on this Wednesday world desk.
Seven missing remains missing.
Twenty-three claimed against seven missing: the Houthi count comes as a package. Independent investigators have no access to verify either number. Wednesday prints the package with the caveat attached.

Packaged counts print together; Wednesday prints the package. Caveats wrap both numbers. Access would unwrap them.

Al-Jawf's dead are numbered because Houthi officials numbered them, and the Los Angeles Times carried that number. Seven missing keep the ledger from pretending it is finished. A prison strike in Al-Hazm is still a prison strike, whatever the strait watchers want it to become.

Wednesday's Al-Jawf number is 23, not Tuesday's seven. Seven missing keep the ledger open. A prison strike is not a strait story.

Seven missing keep the ledger open. Wednesday's Al-Jawf number is 23. A prison strike in Al-Hazm is still a prison strike.

Seven missing keep the ledger open. Wednesday's Al-Jawf number is 23. Wednesday's prison file is 23, not a strait story.

-- LUCIA VEGA, São Paulo