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Without a guilt or a misdeed, they found themselves in the middle of a war and at the mercy of a flood of Houthis’ mines. They and their families had no option but to flee and seek safety in displacement.
They left yesterday for fear of war, and today they are back after they sensed a little bit of safety in their homes that they were forced to leave, today they are back, but they didn’t reach their homes in complete numbers and safely as they hoped for.
Some of them lost a companion and a husband and a support, others lost their limbs and their beloved children because of the Houthis’s mines which were planted in their way of return and at the outskirts of their homes and farms.
Iftikhar, a vulnerable woman who says in sadness: “I am unable to walk or work, after my right leg was paralyzed because of a landmine planted by the Houthis near my home in Wadi Al Malik, in the region of Al Ruwais, at Al Makha directorate.
She goes on to tell the chapters of her tragedy: “I was pregnant, but the explosion I was exposed to aborted my pregnancy, and I still feel the pain of the injury today”.
Iftikhar Ali Mohammad, one of hundreds of victims who became disabled due to the huge number of landmines planted by the Houthis in the places and regions that they withdrew from, in roads, residential areas, farms and fields.
And the story of Hajja Amina Ibrahim, isn’t less bitter than Iftikhar’s. Hajja Amina, from Al Zahari region in Al Makha directorate, is a bereaved mother who lost her son in a landmine explosion, when he was on his way to work as a fisherman.
Amina told Masam’s media office: “The Houthis entered the village, and planted mines everywhere to kill the poor people”. A tragedy that broke Hajja Amina and filled her life with grief and sorrow.
Fear and obsession are overwhelming, even the children realize now the meaning of fear, and in fact, they live in it constantly. The kid Dhia, the grandson of Hajja Amina says: “I am scared of mines because they killed my father”.
The chapters of many tragedies that befell on the Yemenis were written by the Houthis’ deathtraps. The people now are either displaced or disabled, dead or scared. The mines deprived the people from water resources, food, and killed their livestock, and worsened the humanitarian crisis in most parts of Yemen.
It is a reality that Masam’s teams work ceaselessly to change, with all their energy, employees and equipment, through their hard work to free these regions from the Houthis’ deathtraps, so the people of Yemen can today embrace their dream to purify their homes and houses from the evil of mines.