News - Yemen: The Coordinator of Southern Front to Resist the Invasion and Occupation, Ahmed Al-Ali, confirmed that the situation in the southern governorates under the Saudi-Emirati occupation is very bad, pointing out that the citizen will not wait long for the situation to be worse.

"The situation that citizens live in in the southern governorates is the result of the occupation," he said. "There is no hope for a better situation except through liberation."

Al-Ali explained that the goals of US-Saudi aggression in the southern governorates are to tear social ties, spread turmoil, instability, and daily killings.

He also stressed that the aggression project is to plunder the country's wealth.

Al-Ali called on the people of the southern governorates to start facing criminal projects and work to liberate Yemen.

The annual report issued by the Media Center for the Southern Governorates stated that it had documented 1259 crimes and serious violations during the past year, including 159 assassinations as a result of the conflict between the militia of the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council.

The report indicated that the center monitored 82 home raids in Aden and Shabwa governorates. Kidnappings have escalated, in Aden, Abyan, Shabwa and Lahj 67 crimes were committed affecting military commanders, civilian leaders and citizens, including party leaders, workers, women and children. 

The crimes of clashes in the governorates of Aden, Lahj, Al-Dhalae, Abyan and Shabwa increased to 265 crimes due to insecurity and the proliferation of militias and armed groups loyal to the countries of the coalition.

220 detention crimes affected people in Aden, Shabwa, Lahj, Abyan, Hadramout and Al Dhalae, indicating that 200 violations and forced deportations were committed on racial grounds against 4,500 people, the report added.

The report indicated that 92 crimes of extortion against merchants and investors of the occupied southern governorates were committed.