Protests Intensify Across Occupied Southern Yemen as Fuel, Water, and Transport Crises

Organizing committees and union sectors have called on Aden residents, shops, and institutions to maintain full compliance with the morning civil disobedience hours, now in its third consecutive week. Health facilities, hospitals, pharmacies, ambulances, and emergency services are exempt from the closure to ensure citizen safety and humanitarian cases.

The committees stressed that the street remains steadfast in its peaceful escalation program until all just demands are met, including the provision of services, salary payments, and the end of all forms of guardianship.

Dozens of citizens gathered in Aden’s Crater district in front of the Water Corporation building to protest the ongoing deterioration of water services and the daily suffering it causes. Protesters demanded that Saudi-packed authorities take immediate action to address the water crisis, improve service levels, and ensure delivery to all areas.

Protesters called for practical measures to address the existing imbalances and implement sustainable solutions, while also demanding accountability for those failing in their duties.

Media outlets affiliated with mercenary forces reported that firewood sellers in Aden have resumed their traditional activity, carrying bundles of firewood on camels and carts. The escalating crisis has driven residents to seek out old kerosene stoves that were widely used before the 1980s, before the expansion of gas use and the establishment of modern gas stations.

Aden is also facing a severe transport crisis, with near-total traffic stoppage due to an acute gas shortage, leaving dozens of citizens, including elderly people, stranded in streets under the scorching sun. Popular calls have emerged urging private car owners to transport stranded people for free, while outrage mounts on social media against “war profiteers,” demanding an immediate end to the gas crisis.

Despite official announcements from the Saudi-backed government about resuming gas production at one of the Safer company’s plants in Marib, and claims that a second plant will soon return to operation, the household gas crisis continues to affect several Yemeni provinces. Long queues remain at stations, and citizens’ complaints about the difficulty of obtaining daily needs continue to grow.

In Taiz, residents reported that the Al-Jabal station in Wadi Al-Qadi has become one of the few operational stations, drawing large numbers of citizens and car owners, leading to congestion and long waiting lines.