Al-Farah: Occupied Areas Have Become a Saudi-Emirati Arena of Plunder Using Local Proxies

Mohammed Al-Farah, a member of the Political Bureau of Ansar Allah, stated that the occupied areas are witnessing an intense struggle among forces of plunder at the expense of a country exhausted by war, with this conflict being managed through local proxies.

In a post on social media, Al-Farah explained that viewing the scene through a profit-and-loss lens reveals Saudi Arabia’s profound failure in Yemen. He noted that Riyadh has lost everything and has even suffered defeat at the hands of its ally, the United Arab Emirates, adding that after ten years of war and destruction, it has gained nothing but two districts in Ma’rib—whose inevitable fate, he stressed, is eventual withdrawal.

He added that examining the situation from the standpoint of plain truth exposes the falling of masks, as the Saudi-Emirati conflict has become overt and now centers on the regions of Hadramawt and Al-Mahrah—areas outside Sana’a’s control and unrelated to what is termed the “Houthi threat,” thereby laying bare the real motives behind this conflict.

Al-Farah clarified that the core truth is that the Saudi-Emirati occupation did not come to support legitimacy or out of concern for Yemen, but rather with the aim of occupying land, dividing it as spoils, and treating it as inherited private property.

He concluded that what is unfolding cannot be described as an alliance for Yemen, but rather as a conflict among looters over an exhausted country—managed and carried out through local tools—while the Yemeni people alone bear the cost.