Local sources said that Saudi forces have begun to build a military barracks near the fishing port in the province of Al-Mahra (east of Yemen), and strengthened Yemeni forces loyal to the UAE presence in the province of Shabwa.
The sources pointed out that the Saudi forces began to put iron buildings ready about 50 meters from the site of the Fishermen Association in the skilled.
Yemeni fishermen have expressed fears that such construction would adversely affect their actions by militarizing the area and harassing fishermen in their work and livelihoods.
The province of Al-Mahra is a popular movement peacefully rejecting the Saudi military presence on the territory of the province, and organized for this several stops and protest marches.
In south-east Yemen, local sources said that large military reinforcements known as the southern resistance forces of the southern transitional council backed by the UAE arrived on Wednesday evening to the province of Shabwa.
The sources added that about 25 military vehicles reached the camps of the Transitional Council and another to the camp "Harad" headquarters of the elite Shabanian forces in the directorates of Arma, Jardan and Dahr (east of Shabwa).
A military source in Ataq said the new reinforcements of the Shaban elite and the Transitional Council were accompanied by 100 armed men who were brought from outside Shabwa province with Emirati funding and supervision from the southern transitional council.
Local sources in Shabwa considered sending these reinforcements an escalation step that contradicted the agreements reached to calm the situation in Ataq during the past few days, warning that the province would enter the conflict again.
On the island of Socotra, the sheikh of the sheikhs of the Yemeni island Issa bin Salem Al-Sakhateri said that since the entry of its forces, the UAE has been trying to buy loyalty among the local population, offering financial and in-kind temptations.
In an interview with al-Jazeera in the program Without Borders, al-Saktari said that these UAE attempts will not help in turning the allegiance of the islanders into the UAE.
He also confirmed the presence of Emiratis on the island under the cover of a charity, but they do intelligence work and the purchase of loyalties, as he put it.
In field developments, the Houthis announced their targeting of the Patriot system and positions of the Saudi-led coalition forces in Marib (eastern Yemen).
The military spokesman of the Houthis Yahya Sariyah that the operation was carried out in coordination between the aircraft and the missile force, and that the bombing led to the extraction of the Patriot system in Marib for service.
He added that a number of the dead - including leaders - were killed when a coalition of military forces belonging to the alliance with the "Badr B-1".
The spokesman said that the targeting was carried out after the work of intelligence, and comes in response to what he described as crimes of aggression and the siege continued.