Military confrontations which erupted between Wa elah tribe and Darass military camp have claimed the lives of 24 tribesmen and 15 soldiers, said Bin Shajae. On the other side of borders, specifically in some villages affiliated to Wa elah, such as Najran, more than 500 Yemenis were granted the Saudi nationality. It was reported that military confrontation between Yemeni and Saudi border patrols took place claiming the lives of three Saudis, two Yemenis and wounding many others from both sides. Nowadays to reach the Yemeni-Saudi Arabian borders is not that much easy. Difficulties faced in reaching there are not confined to the unevenness of roads but many other obstacles which hinder a safe arrival there.
All citizens living there are well armed with light and heavy weapons.
State presence is absent. It is only the tribesmen who take positions on hill tops. They live at slopes and in valleys in primitive cottages. Here a lot of cases of murder and road blockade with the purpose of robbery are witnessed. The reason behind these is the old vengeance between the tribes here and there.