Houthi forces seized Perim Island in the Strait of Bab al-Mandab after government troops withdrew. [1] The BBC filed the same island after Thursday's capture of Mokha. [2] Thursday this paper printed Mokha taken. Friday the view of the lane is an island. Perim is not Hormuz. Print the island. Do not print a closed Bab el-Mandeb.

The Guardian filed Iran-backed allies taking a strategic island at the mouth of the shipping lane. [1] An island is not a mapped prohibited zone in the Gulf. Do not stitch this to Rezaei's coming chart. Do not spend a later island that belongs to a later edition.

Spokesman copy that navigation remains safe except for named enemies is a claim. A claim is not a traffic count. An announcement that an offensive is over in six districts is not a ceasefire. Print Perim. Leave a recapture to the edition that owns a recapture.

Announced islands stay announced; recaptures belong to later pages. Friday announces. Later editions revise.

Later recaptures wait; Friday prints Perim. Navigation-safe is a claim. Six districts are not a ceasefire.

Friday announces Perim, not Hanish. Recapture belongs later. Navigation-safe remains a claim.

Mokha was Thursday's port; Perim is Friday's island in the same lane. Bab el-Mandeb still has traffic until a chart says otherwise. Hanish is not in this wrap. The strait remains a lane with an occupied rock, not a sealed gate.
The occupied rock is not a sealed gate. Navigation-safe remains a claim. Hanish is not in this wrap.

Navigation-safe remains a claim. Hanish is not in this wrap. Friday's Perim file is an occupied rock, not a sealed gate.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi