Ammar Qassem’s story

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Jabal Habashi District, is the most landmine contaminated area in the Taiz countryside, as large areas of the district have been turned into minefields killing and injuring hundreds of its residents.
Too many tragedies have taken place in Jabal Habashi because of landmines, which have been intensively planted near civilian houses, inside their farms, on the roads, pastures, and even inside schools and near water sources. Landmine contamination has displaced almost every families living in the area, in order to protect themselves from Houthi landmines.
Ammar Qassem is one of Jabal Habashi district’s residents who fell victim to a landmines planted by the militia on the road leading to his house.
The accident led to the amputation of his two lower limbs as well as one of his upper limbs.
With much emotion, Ammar told Project Masam that his disability forced him to leave his house in Bilad al-Wafi sub-district and move to Taiz because he had become unable to move in his mountainous area.
While his injuries were a cause of much pain, Ammar said being displaced brought a lot of sadness.
Ammar is not the first nor the last Yemeni to suffer from the Houthi militia’s continued plantation of landmines, which according Project Masam have killed or injured 2,725 civilians in Taiz between 2015 to end-2020.
From mid-2019 to the beginning of August 2022, the Yemeni Landmine Observatory documented the death of 426 civilians including 101 children and 22 women, and the injury of 568 persons including 216 children and 48 women in a number of Yemeni districts.

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