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Raids on shops owned by northerners, stalking hundreds of street vendors and ordinary street workers after burning their ruts, and collecting them from everywhere on large trucks under gun threats with insults.

That was the case in recent days in Aden, southern Yemen.

The city witnessed widespread abuses by members of the security belt, which the UAE supports against northern citizens, in response to the bombing carried out by the Huthis on one of the camps of the security belt, which killed dozens of soldiers and leaders.

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"We have narrowed Aden, the city where we grew up in its alleys. We feel insecure about it," Faisal Sa, the owner of a food shop in Aden, told us about 32 years ago.

"I have been subjected to intolerable provocations for the past two days," he said. "I was told that I was from Taiz. They immediately threatened me with my knife if I did not close the grocery store and leave Aden immediately."

Faisal, one of dozens of people subjected to acts of violence, harassment and forced displacement, documented their stories and spoke with a sample of them. Among them was Hisham al-Sabri, who reported that he arrived in the city of Taiz after gunmen forced him to board a truck and asked him to leave the south. Even taking his personal belongings that were in one of the popular restaurants he works in.

Lawyer Omar al-Hamiri tells of what happened at one of the military posts at an entrance to Aden. Soldiers stopped him and drove him to board a truck carrying more than 150 people. Some of them were forcibly pulled out of their cars and some were beaten while being taken to trucks. .

The practices of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council have been carried out by the forces of the United Arab Emirates-backed Transitional Council (TUC), which have been chasing the workers and firing live ammunition. The same thing happened in Sheikh Osman market where the property of the workers .

It did not stop at this point, but the insults and threats of the soldiers to the workers amounted to an amount that made them feel afraid and thinking of leaving Aden permanently, as confirmed by some of the citizens with whom Al Jazeera Net talked.

The security belt prevents earlier displaced Yemeni families from entering Aden (Al Jazeera)

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These practices ignited the reactions of Yemeni activists to social networking sites, especially as video clips of citizens were deported and subjected to beatings and insults in a humiliating manner, they said.

The vice president of the so-called Southern Transitional Council, Hani Ben Brik, did not hesitate to publicly incite against the citizens of the North, and claimed in a tweet on Twitter that some of their restaurants celebrated the distribution of drinks by the killing of soldiers of the security belt, and called on citizens in the north not to resort to the south this period Because the people are rebellious, he said.

On the other hand, the Advisor to the Minister of Information in the legitimate government Mukhtar Rahbi blamed the UAE for all crimes and practices against the people of the north in Aden, because Abu Dhabi is formed and supported the militias and gangs in the city.

"There is no clear position on the part of Saudi Arabia and the alliance about the crimes, violations and displacement," Rahbi said. "There is a problem that must be recognized. Aden is not a part of the legitimacy, and it is controlled by militias and gangs belonging to the UAE."

In the first official reaction, Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi ordered the local authorities and the security services in the southern provinces to stop any practices outside the law. The Interior Ministry directed the Aden police to stop attacks on the people of the northern provinces and workers in the interim capital of Aden.

In the context, the Governor of Taiz Nabil Shamsan issued a decision to form a committee to receive and shelter forcibly displaced from the southern provinces, and to contact with civil society organizations to document the displacement in accordance with the international standards of the United Nations Charter on forced displacement.