Mohammed Abdul-Malik - Al-Jazeera Net

The successes of the sons of Al-Mahra Governorate (eastern Yemen) in repelling the attempts of the Saudi forces to control the border shipping port with the Sultanate of Oman lasted only a few hours, until instructions from the Yemeni presidency arrived with Saudi pressure asking the skilled people to withdraw and not to object to the Saudi forces that tightened their control over the port morning today is Tuesday.

These developments occurred after an asymmetric battle in which Saudi forces used Apache helicopters, dozens of armored military vehicles and various types of weapons to subjugate tribesmen and storm the outlets, which prompted a lot of questions about Saudi motives and the reasons for its despair in controlling the city and subjecting its peaceful children by their nature.

Sheikh Abboud: We have no choice but to resist the Saudi occupation (Al-Jazeera)

Position and letters
Sheikh Aboud bin Haboud, deputy head of the Mahra Sons sit-in - which aims to resist the Saudi presence - says that the Saudi forces occupied the border shipping port in an attempt to complete its occupation of Al Mahrah Governorate, and to tighten the screws on the Sultanate of Oman and harass it from the western side, in addition to the UAE taking the same role from the eastern side.

Sheikh Abboud assured Al-Jazeera Net that there is no option for tribesmen and skilled people other than to resist and defend their country, "and with them the legitimacy of the right to everything they do and all people in a state of alert."

Sheikh Abboud sent a scathing message to Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, saying, "You sold yourself at a cheap price to Saudi Arabia and its ambassador to Yemen, Muhammad Al Jaber, so do not sell the Yemeni people and the whole country."

Sheikh Abboud also addressed Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the Yemeni vice president, who issued directives not to object to the Saudi forces, by saying, "These decisions have shown you what you are and your position is now clear to everyone, and we will not expect any benefit from you after today."

Sheikh Abboud called on the sons of the Yemeni people to defend their country to confront the Saudi presence, "after it became clear to everyone that there was no longer a government that supported them, but there was a government in Riyadh that started to occupy their country."

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Governmental contradiction
At the same time, a spokesman for the sit-in of the Mahra Salem Salem Balhaf reported that the Yemeni Minister of Interior Ahmed Al-Misri directed the security services in Mahra not to confront the tribes or provide any support to the Saudi forces, but directives from Riyadh arrived in reverse.

Belhaf stated that the Saudi forces' control of the border shipping port with the Sultanate of Oman is part of its plan to occupy the largest Yemeni cities in terms of area, and said that all evidence that Saudi Arabia has taken to date in the city indicates that it wants to stay forever to achieve its old ambitions.

He added, "Since the eighties of the last century, Saudi Arabia tried to buy the loyalties of the tribes and grant them political naturalization, but it was not until the moment that the Yemeni state weakened and disintegrated, so Riyadh would start to interfere in the affairs of the skilled and realize its dreams that it would have an outlet on the Arabian Sea."

In contrast, a Yemeni official in the legitimate government said - in a phone call to Al Jazeera Net - that the government's contradictory approaches may not be understood, but sometimes it finds itself unable to stand up to Saudi Arabia, which has been present on its soil for more than five years.

Ahmed Belhaf: Saudi Arabia engages in terrorism against skilled people (Al-Jazeera)

Economic interests
The external communication official for Al-Mahrah sit-in, Ahmed Belhaf, explains the reasons for Saudi Arabia's desire to control the Al-Mahra border outlets with the Sultanate of Oman, by its desire to apply the economic and humanitarian blockade to the Yemenis, so that they remain in need only and have only the ports that pass through its territory.

According to Belhaf, Saudi Arabia's biggest goal through this escalation is to prepare the project for extending the oil pipeline from its lands to an active port in Al-Mahra Governorate overlooking the Arabian Sea, indicating that the skilled people do not oppose Saudi interests if they come through official and legal channels.

And Yemeni political analyst Yassin Al-Tamimi goes on to emphasize the expansionist aspirations of Saudi Arabia in order to reach the Arabian Sea, and try to focus on emptying the province of Al-Mahra from the influence of the Yemeni state, and cultivating a conflict in which both militias support and resemble the security belts and elite forces established by the Emirates in the south, and at the other side are sons of Skilled who provided Saudi Arabia with descriptions and accusations of rebellion, sabotage and terrorism.

Al-Tamimi adds to Al-Jazeera Net that Saudi Arabia does not want the situation in Al-Mahra to remain as it is, in terms of supporting the influence of the Yemeni state and its apparatuses, adhering to the principle of national unity, freeing ports, and rejecting calls for secession that feed the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the rest of the southern governorates, according to him.