A senior Yemeni government source told Al Jazeera that the government has unveiled arrangements by the UAE-backed transitional council and its militias to storm the Maasheq palace in Aden.
The source added that the arrangements of the Transitional Council and the militias of the security belt are to storm the palace with civilian elements before the intervention of military militias to fabricate fire as a justification for military intervention.
The source also stressed that the Yemeni government has taken all precautions to deal with any attack on the presidential palace in Aden.
The Yemeni government source said he did not yet know the position of the Saudi government and its forces in Aden.
In June, an audio leak attributed to a leader of the Yemeni Presidential Protection Forces revealed that there was a UAE plan for the Abu Dhabi-backed Southern Transitional Council to take control of Aden, Yemen's interim capital.
The commander of the fourth brigade in the Presidential Protection Force Brigadier General Mehran Qabati at the time that the Southern Transitional Council has completed its arrangements to control the Central Bank and government ministries and the Presidential Palace (Maashiq) Aden.
He added, in a voice recording circulated by the media, that a meeting chaired by Yemeni Interior Minister Ahmed al-Maisari - including military and security leaders - was devoted to discuss the plan of the transitional council.
It is noteworthy that leaders in the southern movement has long considered the UAE presence in Aden and other Yemeni provinces as an "occupation" must be ended.