Yemeni forces have withdrawn from their positions on the west coast of Yemen towards the city of Aden, which is dominated by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, local sources said.
In another development, a source in the Yemeni province of Socotra said that the leadership of the Saudi forces in the province submitted a proposal to the local authority to end the tension in the island, following the rebellion led by the dismissed security director and the UAE-backed security belt forces.
Local Yemeni sources said that the withdrawal of the Giants Brigades was ordered by the command of the UAE forces in Aden in order to strengthen the forces of the Transitional Council there. A few weeks ago, the UAE command withdrew heavy weapons and armored vehicles from the Giants' forces on the west coast and transferred them to the provinces of Aden and Abyan.
The reinforcements come amid a faltering solution to end the control of the UAE-backed forces in the city of Aden, which was the interim capital of the legitimate government of Yemen.
Adel al-Hassani, the leader of the southern Yemeni resistance, said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that the withdrawal of brigades from their positions on the west coast towards the city of Aden was the result of the failure of the security belt forces and the UAE-backed elites against the national army. Al-Hassani wondered where the Giants' brigades in Aden, Abyan and Shaqra would fight after their arrival.
In the province of Socotra, a source said that the proposal of the leadership of the Saudi forces in the province to end the tension is to give the director of the dismissed security director Ali Ahmed al-Rajdhi until Sunday to get out of the Shamil police station, which stormed with the security belt forces, and handing over the center to the new security director Fayez Tahas Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
The proposal also included the withdrawal from all checkpoints created by the UAE-backed forces and their handover to the local authority's security forces.
On the other hand, Yemeni government officials, activists, media and civilians called on President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the leadership of the Saudi-UAE coalition to end the suffering of hundreds of wounded in the governorates of Aden, Lahj, Abyan and Al-Dhali who were injured during the confrontations with the Houthi group on various fronts.
Officials and activists said during a meeting in the city of Aden that there was discrimination and arbitrary by the government and the coalition leadership towards the wounded in these provinces, and that the deterioration of the situation led to the death of two wounded because they could not travel for treatment. They said they had prepared an escalating program of protests if their demands were not met in the coming days.