Young people continue to be injured and killed by landmines in Yemen’s province of Taiz, according to local reports.<\/p>\n
Since the conflict between Yemen\u2019s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated\u00a0strategic areas<\/a>\u00a0have been left littered with\u00a0anti-personnel mines<\/a> and anti-tank mines planted by Houthi militias, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW).<\/p>\n Amal Ahmed, a resident of the Al-Matar neighbourhood in Taiz, was completing her university education and preparing for her wedding when she was injured in a landmine blast.<\/p>\n Amal saw children playing with an object when she realised it was a landmine. As she put herself between the device and the children, the mine exploded. Amal lost both eyes in the blast. The young woman claimed her groom left her following the incident.<\/p>\n In the residential area of Bir Bashi in Taiz governorate, Mubarak Moqbel, a young man, lost one of his lower limbs to a Houthi mine.<\/p>\n A young girl, Sanaa Qassem, was walking with friends and talking about their scientific studies when a landmine exploded under her feet. One of her legs was amputated, while the other one was left damaged. One of her hands was also maimed.<\/p>\n Today, Sanaa tries to walk on her prosthetic leg with difficulty to do some of the household chores.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Fouad Ali, a newly married young man, who dreamed of starting a family, working, succeeding, and earning a living, was seriously injured when he walked on a landmine on the way to meet a friend. He said he now spends most of his life indoors.<\/p>\n Landmine contamination is especially high in strategic areas across Yemen – the west coast, the port of Hudaydah and Taiz region.<\/p>\n Project Masam has made it its mission to rid Yemen of landmines and other ERWs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young people continue to be injured and killed by landmines in Yemen’s province of Taiz, according to local reports. Since the conflict between Yemen\u2019s pro-government forces and Houthi militias escalated in 2014, liberated\u00a0strategic areas\u00a0have been left littered with\u00a0anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines planted by Houthi militias, along with unexploded explosive remnants of war (ERW). Amal…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20785,"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":[258,149,201,103,600,99,98,102,452,101,441],"class_list":["post-20784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-civilians-killed-yemen","tag-houthi-landmines","tag-houthi-militias","tag-houthis","tag-hudaydah","tag-landmines","tag-mine-action","tag-project-masam","tag-taiz","tag-yemen","tag-yemen-west-coast","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20786,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784\/revisions\/20786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}