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The landmines are the true and only enemy Masam wants to defeat in Yemeni lands.
For this noble humanitarian purpose, project Masam commissions its experts, skills, energies and vigilant consciences.
It is a bet that made Masam deploy its teams in the liberated Yemeni provinces to search for landmines; they are working hard to survey the areas planted with deadly traps despite the lack of maps that locate precisely where the militias deliberately buried terror underground, in rocks, trees, mountains, valleys, deserts, residential areas and all the places that have been turned into dangerous and suspicious, making the mission of locating them a very hard task for Masam.
Masam doesn’t spare an effort in surveying the areas afflicted with landmines, because the members of this project, its united teams and family, know for sure that every cleared landmine means a new planted life, which makes Masam always vigilant and ready for any information that comes from civlians regarding the presence of a landmine.
Sometimes nature and the keenness of civlians to inform about the deadly traps help go hand in hand with the readiness of Masam’s teams, and especially with the torrents that uncover this death buried underground.
In addition to the efforts to search for the landmines planted at random, and the keenness of Masam to deal with them professionally and to get people rid of the landmines’ evil by clearing and destroying them, responding to information about the presence of landmines remains a priority that Masam deals with seriously, keenly and professionally, as part of its solely humanitarian mission in Yemen.
Only few hours separated the appeal made by civilians through the media center of Ad Dali fighting axis from the swift response of project Masam and the National Mine Action center, as Major General Qaid Haytham, the Executive Director of the Mines Action Center in Aden led a big clearing team to visit the regions afflicted by landmines that were drifted by rain torrents on the banks of Tubn Hajar Ad Dali river.
This emergency visit proved the rapid response to the civlians’ appeal in the region, after they found various landmines that were drifted by the torrents to their farms and roads in Tubn valley; the landmines were planted by the Houthi militias in the conflict areas in the north of Ad Dali.
In this context, Major General Qaid Haytham said that project Masam and the National Mine Action Center responded to this appeal rapidly due to the danger civilians face there, and that they instructed their respective clearing teams to go to the fields promptly and start surveying all the afflicted areas along the river from Hajar Dhu Ruayn Ad Dali to Lahij province, and that work will start after Eid Al Adha.
Major General Haytham called upon all the residents on the banks of the river to be cautious in their moves and works in the valley, and not to approach any suspicious or strange bodies along the river’s stream, and to inform rapidly the authorities about them for the danger they pose to their lives.
For their turn, the civilians thanked an appreciated this response, and felt hopeful about the coming of the clearing teams to their areas. They indicated that these landmines terrorized and prevented them from working in their farms and limited their movements, but with the arrival of the teams, they felt hope again to return to their normal lives, showing their readiness to cooperate with the teams to make their mission successful.