News - Yemen: The UAE militia launched, Monday, a massive arrest campaign against citizens in Ataq.

Local sources indicated that citizens are subjected to arbitrary arrests in the streets under the pretext of searching for weapons and on charges of collaborating with the Islah party.

The sources indicated that the UAE-backed militia stormed a number of houses in the Kahraba neighborhood in the city center, and arrested more than 10 people and took them to an unknown location.

The occupied southern governorates are witnessing a security chaos, and an escalation of attacks and assassinations between the parties loyal to the US-Saudi-UAE aggression, in light of the spread of Takfiri groups.

The attack in Shabwa comes with the escalation of the state of popular revolution, and the outbreak of massive protests in the city of Aden, reflecting the rejection of occupying UAE-Saudi aggression.

The citizens protest against the continued deterioration of living conditions, the interruption of services, the collapse of the economy and currency, and the significant increase in fuel prices.

Saudi Arabia and many of its allies have been waging a war on Yemen since 2015 to restore power there to the country’s Riyadh-friendly former officials. The war and a simultaneous siege that the US-Saudi-led coalition has been enforcing on the country has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis.

The invasion has pushed entire Yemen close to the brink of outright famine, turning the country into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.