{"id":16524,"date":"2020-02-12T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=16524"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:03:57","slug":"the-houthis-mines-turn-the-jewel-of-yemen-into-a-minefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/the-houthis-mines-turn-the-jewel-of-yemen-into-a-minefield\/","title":{"rendered":"The Houthis\u2019 mines turn \u201cthe jewel of Yemen\u201d into a minefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e18e77f02d0\" data-id=\"69e18e77f02d0\" data-height=\"15\" data-height-mobile=\"15\" data-height-tab=\"15\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1523980243435{background-color: #bfbfbf !important;border-radius: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;slideInLeft&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1524347545394{background-color: #a3a3a3 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e18e77f030e\" data-id=\"69e18e77f030e\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>News<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e18e77f0333\" data-id=\"69e18e77f0333\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e18e77f0369\" data-id=\"69e18e77f0369\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" style=\"clear:both;display:block;\"><\/div><div id=\"mtphr-dnt-15304\" class=\"mtphr-dnt mtphr-dnt-15304 mtphr-dnt-default mtphr-dnt-scroll mtphr-dnt-scroll-left mtphr-dnt-trim-ticks ticker-bold\"><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-wrapper mtphr-dnt-clearfix\"><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick-container\"><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick-contents\"><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Managing Director Project of Masam, Mr. Ousama AlGosaibi: Project teams have cleared 220,352 mines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices since end of June 2018 until now<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">AlGosaibi: Masam teams cleared 148872 unexploded ordnance from end of June 2018 until February 26,2021<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">AlGosaibi: Teams have cleared so far 62,663 anti-tank mines and 2,957 anti-personnel mines<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">AlGosaibi: Project field teams cleared 5860 explosive devices from project launch until February 26,2021<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">AlGosaibi: Our teams were able from end of June 2018 till February 26,2021, to clear 20,491,365 square meters of Yemeni lands that were booby-trapped with mines, ammunition and explosive devices<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Project Masam Operations Room: From the beginning of February until the 26th, engineering teams cleared 5,915 mines, unexploded ammunition and explosive devices<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Project Masam Operations Room: From the beginning of this month, until now, Masam teams have cleared 4,175 unexploded ordnance and 10 explosive devices<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Masam Operations: From the beginning of the month until the 26th, project teams cleared 1,590 anti-tank mines and 140 anti-personnel mines<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Project Masam Operations: During the fourth week of February, our teams cleared 1428 mines, unexploded ordnance, and explosive devices<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Masam Operations: Our teams cleared 1015 unexploded ordnance and one explosive device last week<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Masam Operations: Last week, project teams cleared 391 anti-tank mines and 21 anti-personnel mines<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Masam Operations Room: During the fourth week of this month, project teams were able to clear 261865 square meters of Yemeni lands<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \">Masam Operations: From the beginning of the month until the 26th, our teams were able to clear 1,244,805 square meters of Yemeni lands<\/div><div class=\"mtphr-dnt-tick mtphr-dnt-default-tick mtphr-dnt-clearfix \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/seperator.jpg\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e18e77f1568\" 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devices.<\/p>\n<p>According to Masam\u2019s demining teams which are working in Al Khokha directorate, the planted mines varied between anti-tank and anti-personnel, explosive devices which are considered individual mines which their use, transfer and production are prohibited according to Ottawa treaty, and which varies between explosive devices with electrical circuits or Infra-red \u201ccameras\u201d, and others that work with pressure, and artillery shells, machine guns, and flying bombs.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis\u2019 mines caused dozens of Al Khokha directorate\u2019s inhabitants to be killed or wounded, most of them women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Fatima Ibrahim\u2026 on of the victims of the Houthi\u2019s crimes<\/p>\n<p>Fatima Ibrahim is one of the victims who were harmed by the criminal hands of Houthis, and another story in the record of the Houthis\u2019 crimes against the Yemenis.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Masam\u2019s media office Fatima said: \u201cwe were fleeing 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And during our flight, a mine planted at the roadside by the Houthis exploded at us, which led to the killing of 4 women of my family, and I with my son were injured\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fatima added: \u201cwere not the only ones who were exposed to the mines\u2019 explosions, there are dozens of women and children from the region who were killed, and some of them were permanently disabled because of the mines that the Houthis planted to kill citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Masam\u2019s efforts to bring life back to Al Khokha directorate<\/p>\n<p>In his turn, the leader of Masam\u2019s team 7 colonel Mohammad Al Aajra said that when his team went to Al Khokha directorate in late November 2018, the whole area was infested with mines.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Al Aajra added in an exclusive interview with Masam\u2019s media office that Al Khokha\u2019s inhabitants were quasi-besieged due to the Houthis\u2019 mining of all main roads and sub-roads, and that 70 % of the farms were not suitable for investment, and work stopped in them because of the mines.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of Masam\u2019s team 7 noted that his team started its mission in Al Khokha with an emergency plan to open the main roads and sub-roads in the populated villages, and then his team went on to secure homes and farms for the inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Al Aajra confirmed that his team has been able until now to clear 12 minefields, all of them roads and farms, and the team has been able to remove more than 1500 anti-armor mines, 20 anti-personnel mines and 20 explosive devices.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of Masam\u2019s team 7 noted that thanks to the support and backup provided by the Masam project represented by the Managing Director, and thanks to the efforts made by his team, the land breathed, and the inhabitants of Al Khokha directorate were able to go back to their farms and normal lives in a safe manner.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_widget_sidebar show_bg=&#8221;false&#8221; 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