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The sound of cannons almost deaf to their ears, the roar of planes terrifies their hearts, the explosions of mines shake their bodies and the scenes of killing and destruction became a tape renewed before their eyes every day. This is what the children of Yemen experience, as for their brothers from the children of the world, watching with horror on television, live transmission of coup chapters led by a criminal faction that seeks to destroy and destabilize the state and control a government unjustly.
And between those who live the coup and those who watch, the childhood of Yemenis children is lost and the suffering of an entire nation increases. The danger of this upheaval effects is not what appears from it now but rather what will appear later in an entire generation for those who survived, carrying with them countless psychological and physical problems.
It may be easy to talk about the effects that afflict the Yemenis children during the Houthi coup that eliminated the children’s smile, made sadness inherent to their features, tampered with their young bodies with its shells and mines and turned them into scattered pieces, and planted their way with spines of hatred instead of paving them to facilitate their access to schools, apart from brainwashing young people using Extreme educational curricula instead of science and arts, besides, parents’ experiences with these children remain a challenge that every family faces.
How can you mother deal with a child who lost his limbs due to the explosion of these killer cans, or the next door collapsed on neighbors and friends who were playing with him as a result of bombing their homes?
It seems that the living reality is more complex than all theories and theorizing, especially in light of the Houthi’s insistence on prolonging the coup in order to preserve its narrow interests, which is a matter that inflicts a very high cost on population.
In the past days, the terrorist Houthi militia launched more than 78 separate attacks in Al-Hudaydah governorate only, targeting residential areas, which confirms the deliberate intention to kill civilians.
This group also resorted to bombing houses in the context of forced displacement, terrorizing and subjugating the population, and retaliating against opponents. The Civil Authority for Victims of House Explosions has documented more than 816 cases in 17 Yemeni governorates during the period from September 1, 2014 to June 30, 2020.
The governorate of Taiz is the most affected by the bombing of 151 houses, followed by Al-Bayda governorate with 124, and Ibb governorate with 120 houses. The rest of the houses that were blown up by the Houthis were distributed in the following order, Hajjah, Lahj, Damar, Sana’a, Dhale, Ma’arib, Al-Jawf, Amran, Shabwa, Hodaydah, Abyan and Saada, in addition to Aden and Hadramout.
Mines and improvised explosive devices have claimed thousands of civilians lives, while the rest are still threatening the lives of millions, in addition to poisoning the land and depriving people of their farms and water resources.
Therefore, the Houthi mine clearance represents an epic of altruism and self-sacrifice, as huge efforts are being made by Project Masam to eradicate malicious terrorism. In the latest statistics, Masam engineering teams were able during the third week of December to clear 1,346 mines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices, bringing the total of what had been cleared from November 28th to December 18th to 4468, in addition to clearing 877203 square meters of Yemeni lands during the same period.
Chaos and explosions pervaded all Yemeni regions, and as a result hundreds of residents fell dead, injured and disabled, while others were trapped and unable to practice their normal life as a result of the large number of Houthi mines and explosives that occupied Yemen.