Sources said to the island that the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council forces stormed the local authority building in Socotra, amid assurances from a Yemeni official that this was "with the complicity of Saudi Arabia."
The sources confirmed the transitional forces' control of the security department building in the city of Hadibu (the center of Socotra governorate), with continued clashes between government forces and the transitional militia at the western gate of the city.
A Yemeni government source said to the island that the Yemeni presidency had contacted the Saudi authorities to intervene in Socotra, but had not received any response.
A government source had said that civilian casualties were caused by indiscriminate shelling by the Transitional Forces, indicating that this shelling was from a location near the headquarters of the Saudi-Emirati coalition forces.
The source pointed out that the Saudi forces in Socotra did not move a finger against the transitional forces, despite their proximity to their positioning stations, describing the coalition's position as a clear collusion.
Local sources quoted Hadibu residents as appealing to the international community to compel the UAE and the transitional forces to stop bombing the city and protect Socotra Archipelago as a world heritage site.
In turn, Mukhtar al-Rahbi, a consultant to the Yemeni Information Minister, on Twitter, accused Saudi Arabia in Socotra governorate of failing government forces in front of the southern transitional council attack on the governorate.
Al-Rahbi added that the Saudi forces entered Socotra to support the legitimacy and protect the state’s institutions, but in its first test it stood neutral and failed the legitimacy and state institutions that violate the transitional gangs, indicating that there are over a thousand soldiers from the Saudi forces, dozens of armored vehicles and heavy weapons in Socotra .
The Yemeni official considered that there is an Emirati scheme to control and occupy all state institutions.
There was no comment from the Saudi side regarding the statements of the Yemeni official, but Riyadh has previously confirmed that it is working in a neutral manner to resolve the crisis between the Yemeni government and the Transitional Council.
In full view of Saudi Arabia
In this context, the Yemeni sheikh, Sheikh Socotra Sheikhs, Isa bin Salem Al-Sagtari said that the people of the province will not stand idly by in the face of the attacks launched by the UAE-backed transitional forces.
He added - in a special statement to the island - that the attacks carried out by the transitional took place in full view of the Saudi forces present on the island.
Sheikh Issa Al-Sagtari also called on Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his government to take a clear and firm stance towards what he described as the attacks of the transitional forces and the collusion of Saudi Arabia.
Al-Suqtari said that President Hadi should ask the United Nations and the Security Council to remove the Saudi-Emirati coalition from Yemen.
As for the Yemeni Foreign Minister, Muhammad al-Hadrami, he said earlier that the legitimacy of the Transitional Council as one of the parties to the political process in Yemen is related to the extent of its implementation of the Riyadh Agreement, considering that the legitimacy of the Council if it continues in the approach of the insurgency.
During a video meeting with the British Secretary of State for Middle East and North Africa Affairs James Cleverly, Al-Hadrami demanded that the interim government retract its announcement of the so-called self-management.