Emirati Occupation Constructs Military Base in Socotra in Cooperation with Zionist

 Informed local sources in Socotra reported that the UAE occupation  constructed a military base airport on the island of Abdal-Kuri after expelling dozens of families from their villages on the Island, which is one of the most important Yemeni islands of the Socotra archipelago; In preparation for turning the island into a military base for the Zionist entity.

The sources indicated that the occupation forces opened the military base to operate foreign flights; with the aim of smuggling precious stones, antiquities and rare trees, and introducing foreign military experts out of sight at Hadibo Airport, the capital of Socotra.

Abu Dhabi has established a number of joint military bases and observation posts with the Zionist entity in Socotra, and the expansion of Israeli intelligence activities in the Yemeni islands and coasts in the southern Red Sea at the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Arabian Sea during the past years of the aggression against Yemen.

These developments come hours after the Sheikh of Socotra Island called on all Yemenis in the southern governorates to rise up in the face of the US-Saudi occupation. The prominent tribal sheikh, Issa Salem bin Yaqout, said that it is time for Yemenis to realize the conspiracy of the coalition of aggression, which prolonged the war, and it is time to expel it from the country, accusing the countries of aggression of destroying the local currency and the national economy. He explained that what is happening in the southern governorates reflects the policies of the coalition of aggression to starve the Yemeni people.

The Sheikh of Socotra had previously accused the UAE occupation of systematically looting the wealth of the island and Mahra, stressing that there is no choice but to expel it by force from all Yemeni lands.