{"id":16533,"date":"2020-02-13T21:51:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=16533"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:03:46","slug":"the-hell-of-the-houthis-mines-lots-of-tragedies-that-masam-works-hard-to-erase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/the-hell-of-the-houthis-mines-lots-of-tragedies-that-masam-works-hard-to-erase\/","title":{"rendered":"The hell of the Houthis\u2019 mines.. 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style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>News<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e17d493552a\" data-id=\"69e17d493552a\" 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-69e17d4935547\" data-id=\"69e17d4935547\" 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 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And after months of suffering our village was liberated, so we decided to return to our homes, unaware that the Houthis left a death machine behind them that was lurking and awaiting for the locals\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The mines changed the path of Khawla\u2019s life after they killed her mother, and shrapnel ripped Khawla\u2019s weak body and caused her burns of the first degree. They also injured her little brother who is less than 10 year old.<\/p>\n<p>Thorny roads<\/p>\n<p>The civilians are going through a painful reality and a very sad humanitarian situation in the hills of Tihamah, which led Masam project to send 16 engineering teams that work in 10 directorates on the western coast, to secure civilian lives, and enable them to return to their homes to reclaim their lands which the Houthis\u2019 mines turned into death fields that take the lives of innocents.<\/p>\n<p>In Al Khokha directorate, Masam project works for the second year in a row with 3 engineering teams that were able to secure many residential areas, agricultural lands, and were also able to diminish the number of victims dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement made by Masam\u2019s team 26 which works in Al Khokha directorate is the best example of the big humanitarian role that Masam project is playing in Yemen.<br \/>\nIn an exclusive interview with Masam\u2019s media office, the member of Masam\u2019s team 26 engineer Mohammad Aalwan confirmed that the team has been able since it started its mission to clear 13 landmines starting from Al Moushi to Al Haima in Al Khokha directorate.<\/p>\n<p>Engineer Mohammad Aalwan said: \u201cThe team was able to remove 2022 mines, explosive devices and unexploded ordnance\u201d, noting that the field that his team is working in right now is an open agricultural area that includes a lot of farms, which the Houthis filled heavily and randomly with mines.<\/p>\n<p>Aalwan added that the region where his team is working to secure right now witnessed many explosions that caused the killing of more than 13 civilians, most of them women and children.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that all the removed mines were planted by the Houthis randomly in the citizen\u2019s farms, sub-roads and civilian residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>The member of team 26 reiterated that his team was able to help a lot of farmers through enabling them to return again to their farms after they were fully cleared of mines.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that his team will continue it humanitarian mission until Al Khokha region in particular, and the western coast in general are safe from mines that were planted to kill and mime civilian, and prevent them from returning to their homes and farms.<br \/>\nEngineer Mohammad Aalwan praised the huge support that Masam project provides for his team in everything they need to facilitate their humanitarian mission and save civilians from the mines danger which was planted by the militias of death and enemies of humanity underground.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_widget_sidebar show_bg=&#8221;false&#8221; 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