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People, including armed men, were returning and returning individuals and groups laden with furniture, while some climbed mountain roads to reach the Maasheq palace in Aden, the seat of government, on the bank of the Gulf, which is named after the city.

From the window of his house, Ahmed Abdel Aziz was watching two gunmen urge footsteps to carry an air conditioner, which he had looted from a government compound in the presidential compound.

Abdul Aziz tells Al Jazeera Net that the chaos in the city is evidence of the intentions of those who control it, as they proved that they are a group of mobs and anarchists, and they will not be able to run the state for one week.

One of the pictures of the looting of the palace of Ma'haiq (social networking sites)

He points out that the UAE-backed security belt forces began looting the presidential palace, then inciting citizens to storm it and enter government headquarters.

Activists and bloggers circulated pictures of the looting of the government palace, and pickup trucks carrying furniture were seen leaving the palace, while armored military vehicles stood on the roads leading to the palace without the intervention of soldiers.

New videos show the looting of the militia of the Transitional Council of #Palace_Masheq for the second time pic.twitter.com/ZYXTGIKYBP

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Anger and frustration

The city's residents are frustrated after the security belt forces of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council seized state institutions and the Maasheq palace on August 10, in a scenario similar to the Houthi group's takeover of the capital Sana'a in September 2014.

Mounir Fadl, a doctor at a commercial pharmacy in Dar Saad, north of the city, said the recent events have added to the difficulties and fears of life.The city is still suffering from the crises left by the war since 2015.

"In the last two years we have seen a relative improvement in services, and protests and demonstrations calling for services such as electricity and fuel, price cuts and salaries have stopped, but recent events have brought us back," he adds.

Abductions and racist raids targeting Abyan, Shabwa, Sabiha and all those who legitimize in Aden
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"Since the outbreak of the events, the city has been displaced and the fuel crisis has started. Two days ago, petrol was available at some commercial stations, up 125 riyals per liter (about $ 0.25)," he said.

According to the pharmacist, the price of food has doubled, including fish, which is affordable for the population, where the price per kilo of tuna to ten thousand riyals (twenty dollars).

The residents of the city believe that the UAE has entered the city in a dark tunnel, especially as the recent fighting resulted in the control of the security belt forces on the government headquarters only, as the city has been effectively under those forces since January 2018.

Deepening hatred
Despite the slogans raised by the Southern Transitional Council to restore southern Yemen, a sizeable section of southerners believe the UAE has dashed their hopes of building a nation that includes all of Yemen, with Aden as its capital.

Security belt forces did not intervene to prevent looting (social networking sites)

One of the journalists told Al-Jazeera Net - preferring not to be named - that the transitional council's issue of the south harmed it more than he reported, adding that we want to restore the state of the south and restore our full rights, but the coup does not create countries but only deepens the chaos.

Before the events, Mansour Moqbel, an investor in the pharmaceutical trade, was preparing a large warehouse to move his company from the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, but recent events have made him think again.

Before the fighting erupted in the city, pro-UAE forces launched a massive campaign to expel Yemenis from the northern governorates, claiming that they were traitors and agents of the north, and were not entitled to stay in the city, although all those targeted by the campaign workers and vendors.

"Many merchants and I were seeing in Aden a new place to resume our business, but what happened made us stop our projects, which misses a golden opportunity for the city to flourish," he says.

"The money had started to flow, and life had revived, but the UAE seems to have a different opinion."

Earlier, Yemeni Minister of Culture Marwan Dammaj accused the UAE of "funding a media and propaganda campaign to deepen hatred among Yemenis."

"Since the beginning of the events, a regional separatist militia has been supported and empowered at the expense of the legitimate government of the south of the country," Dammaj said in a post on his Facebook page.

The Yemeni minister said that "conditions were created in the south to prevent it from becoming a better model than the areas of control of the Houthi group."


The militia does not manage:
Many Yemenis believe that the transitional militia is no different from the Houthi militia. Both sides are adept at fighting and war but failing to manage the state, causing the country to collapse and fragment it into projects for many countries.

Ziad al-Mehwari, a researcher at the University of Aden, says the Houthis and the transitional are similar in conditions of their control of the state, so it is very difficult for them to uphold any system.

He adds to the island Net, "the current service situation in Aden is bad, especially electricity, because the service was the government, while the Transitional Council lacks management, but nevertheless we will see what happens."

"The transitional state can only manage the state with the authorization and support of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, and this is unreasonable that the cooperation between the parties."

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ursula Mueller, in her briefing to the Security Council, said that the recent fighting in Aden between legitimacy and the transitional forces had caused significant damage to the infrastructure and water system.

Ursula predicted a further deterioration of the Yemeni currency, as fears of a disruption to the work of the Central Bank of Yemen increase.