The Saudi-Emirati military alliance in Yemen said that it addresses attempts to undermine the security of Al-Mahra Governorate, noting that what it described as organized crime and smuggling groups constitutes a real security threat that undermines the legitimate Yemeni government’s efforts to impose security and stability in the province.
The spokesman for the coalition, Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, added that some of the well-known personalities in the governorate who are leaders of organized crime and smuggling groups have tried to disrupt the efforts of government security agencies to stop and control smuggling operations in the governorate.
Colonel Al-Maliki indicated that the joint coalition forces leadership supports the efforts of the legitimate Yemeni government to confront such outlaw activities, pointing to the occurrence of injuries among the security forces during the process of confronting these groups.
For his part, the leader of the Yemeni Southern Resistance, Adel Al-Hassani, said that Al-Maliki's talk about the existence of smuggling groups and organized crime in Al-Mahra is ridiculous.
He added in a previous meeting with Al-Jazeera that those who are in Al-Mahra are its sons, and they are the ones who refuse to enter the Saudi forces for a shipping outlet. Al-Hassani asked, whichever is the first: to ask the people of Al-Mahra Governorate why you came to your province or ask the Saudi forces why did you come to a land other than yours?
In turn, said former Salem al-Mahra, the leader of the Southern National Salvation Council, Ali Salem al-Harizi, that Saudi Arabia is determined to occupy all the lands and facilities of Al-Mahra Governorate in eastern Yemen.
Al-Harizi added in a video clip published by the official of the external communication of the sit-in of the skilled Ahmed Belhaf on Facebook today, Tuesday, that he was surprised by the letter of the Vice President of the Republic of Yemen, in which he called for what he described as "crushing the rebellion" and enabling Saudi Arabia to reach a shipping port.
The Yemeni Minister of Information, Muammar Al-Iryani, has previously indicated that President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi directed all security and military units and units in Al-Mahra Governorate to quickly deal firmly and take all appropriate measures and measures against those he described as concerned with security and general tranquility in the province.
And local sources of the island said that more than twenty military vehicles with Saudi soldiers and Yemeni armed men stormed the port of shipment with the Sultanate of Oman.
The Saudi forces and their loyalists stormed the crossing after the tribes withdrew from the port early this morning, based on tribal mediation and presidential directives, provided that the situation in the port remains under the protection of the security and military institutions of the legitimate government.
The peaceful sit-in committee rejecting the Saudi presence in the Yemeni Al-Mahra Governorate expressed its condemnation of the attempted intrusion, and said that what it described as the Saudi occupation and its militia attacked citizens and members of the tribes of the Shipping Directorate.
She added - in a statement to her - that the presence of what the Saudi occupation forces and their militias called in Al-Mahra Governorate violated international laws, and called on the tribes of the province to unite to prevent the functions of the legitimate state in Yemen from being emptied of their duties.