{"id":17212,"date":"2020-09-14T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=17212"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T12:18:29","slug":"the-houthi-militias-landmines-kill-48-civilians-in-100-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/the-houthi-militias-landmines-kill-48-civilians-in-100-days\/","title":{"rendered":"The Houthi militias\u2019 landmines kill 48 civilians in 100 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"ult-spacer spacer-69e73dab56871\" data-id=\"69e73dab56871\" 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-69e73dab568a0\" data-id=\"69e73dab568a0\" 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-69e73dab568c0\" data-id=\"69e73dab568c0\" 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-69e73dab568df\" data-id=\"69e73dab568df\" 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-69e73dab575af\" data-id=\"69e73dab575af\" data-height=\"10\" data-height-mobile=\"10\" data-height-tab=\"10\" data-height-tab-portrait=\"\" data-height-mobile-landscape=\"\" 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!important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]The landmines and explosive devices that the Houthis have been planting over the past six years keep killing civilians in many Yemeni provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The landmines and explosive devices which the Houthi destructive and deadly militias have planted more than 2.5 million of them during the past six years in different populated areas and roads, have created a different scary reality for thousands of Yemenis.<\/p>\n<p>The monitoring team of \u201cSeptember net\u201d published a data that counted the number of the Houthi landmines and explosive devices\u2019 explosions since last June until the 10th of September, and which reached 18 in 8 Yemeni provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The number of the Houthi landmines\u2019 victims during the 100 days (the period which was monitored by the team) reached no less than 48 victims, including 25 dead and 23 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Al Hudaydah province, in western Yemen, topped the list regarding the number of victims who fell due to the Houthi landmines with 9 victims, including 5 dead and 4 wounded. Al Bayda province came second with 8 victims, including 5 dead and 3 wounded, as for Al Jawf province it came third with the same number of victims, including 2 dead and 6 wounded. Shabwah province came fourth with 7 victims, including 4 dead and 3 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifth place, Marib province with 6 victims, including 4 dead and 2 wounded, and Taiz province, in south western Yemen came sixth with 6 victims, including 3 dead and 3 wounded. As for the seventh place, Ad dali\u2019 province with 2 dead, and in the eighth place Hijjah province, in north western Yemen with 2 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The monitoring team of \u201cSeptember net\u201d confirmed that the total number of the dead reached 25, including 11 boys, 3 women, 3 girls and 8 men. As for the wounded the number reached 23, including 8 boys, 4 women and 8 men.<\/p>\n<p>The team noted that June topped the list of months regarding the number of explosions caused by the rebel Militias\u2019 landmines with 7 explosions in 5 Yemeni provinces. They killed 4 people, including 2 adults and 2 children, and wounded 13 people, including 8 men, 4 children and one woman. July came in the second place with 6 Houthi landmines\u2019 explosions in 3 province. They killed 8 people, including 4 children, 2 men, a woman and a girl, and wounded 6 people, including 3 children, 2 men and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>And during August, which came third with 3 explosions, The Houthi landmines and explosive devices killed 8 people, including 2 boys, a woman and a girl, and wounded 2 men. As for September, there were 2 explosions in 2 provinces They killed 6 people, including 3 boys, a man, a woman and a girl, and wounded 3 people; 2 women and a boy.<\/p>\n<p>Various landmines<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Iranian Houthi coup militias have been very resourceful during the past six years in producing and camouflaging the landmines and explosive devices, to make them invisible in order to kill thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The latest report published by \u201cHuman Rights Watch\u201d, indicated that the organization found evidence which prove that the rebel Houthi militias, in addition to planting anti-personnel landmines, planted anti-tank landmines in populated areas, anti-vehicle landmines that were modified to explode when one person step on them and hand-made explosive devices camouflaged in the shape of rocks or parts of tree trunks.<\/p>\n<p>In the same context, project Masam for Mine Clearance in Yemen (The Saudi project that started its mission to clear landmines in Yemen in the middle of 2018, and which is funded by King Salam Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre) announced that it was able since the launch of the project to clear 13.868.757 square meters of Yemeni lands, which were mined with landmines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices, and that it cleared no less than 183581 landmines and explosive devices from these lands.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_widget_sidebar show_bg=&#8221;false&#8221; sidebar_id=&#8221;sidebar_1&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][\/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;][vc_column_text] News [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;5\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; alignment=&#8221;right&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1524156224953{margin-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1600088765535{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #b5b5b5 !important;border-radius: 15px !important;}&#8221;]The landmines and explosive devices that the Houthis have been planting over the past six years keep killing civilians in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17214,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17212\/revisions\/17214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}