The mines planted by the Iranian-backed Houthi coup militias continue to breathe life and cut innocent limbs in several Yemeni governorates. Statistics of the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations indicate that the militias have planted more than one million mines, including anti-personnel, anti-vehicle and anti-vehicle mines. As well as marine mines from 2014 to the present.

The statistics show that the Houthi mines resulted in the fall of about 1000 martyrs, and more than 10,000 injured, including women and children, and the biggest problem is that the Houthi militias resorted to the manufacture of mines in the form of rocks and toys and building materials and logs and inside cans and food bags, in order to inflict as much Of the victims, they planted mines in homes, schools, civilian installations, roads, farms, villages, residential neighborhoods, and even beaches and fisheries.

Recent reports have revealed the arrival of various naval mines from Iran, as well as remote-controlled booby traps and military boats to the Houthis, through the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Some 14 Yemeni governorates suffer from mines, namely: «Hudaydah, Hajjah, Saada, Marib, Taiz, Abyan, Shabwa, Aden, Lahj, Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda, Al-Dhala, Sana'a, and Mayyun Island». Al-Qaeda, which worked to lay mines in the districts of Abyan province in 2012.

At the end of April, Human Rights Watch issued a report confirming that the Houthis had planted mines in water wells, camouflaged rocks, logs, and sea mines that threatened commercial and aid ships. Militia media boasted of mine casualties. Evidence that, in addition to landmines, Houthi militias have planted antivehicle mines in civilian areas and antivehicle mines modified to explode in person's weight, and the organization has called on the UN Panel of Eminent Experts and the Security Council Panel It stressed that the Houthis should also investigate individuals who may be responsible for war crimes, including obstructing the indispensable assistance for the survival of civilians.

Since the beginning of 2016 until the end of 2018, the Yemeni army managed to extract about 300 thousand mines.According to a report issued at the beginning of June, the militias resorted to booby-trap the entrances of cities, and planted huge quantities of mines, in a desperate attempt to stop the progress of the legitimate forces, as the militias trapped. Most of the buildings located in the seam areas, and the Houthi mines last year alone killed 615 civilians, including 110 children, and 26 women.

Since the beginning of the Saudi Mine Clearance Project in Yemen, late June 2018, until the middle of last month, the project has cleared more than 80,000 mines, ranging from mines, unexploded ordnance and explosive devices.The mine problem remains and requires international action to compel The Houthi militias stop the cultivation of death traps, and the need to hand over maps of mines to the legitimate authorities to remove them, so that no more innocent victims.

The last victims of the Houthi mines, yesterday, where a woman was seriously injured by a landmine planted by militias, in the Shaqab area Sabr al-Moadam district, south of Taiz province.

Local sources said that the Yemeni citizen Fatima Mohammed Abdo Ibrahim, aged 47, was injured by a landmine planted by Houthi militias beside a house in the village of Daraa al-Dhab, east of Al-Shaqab.

The sources added that Fatima was injured by a mine while bringing firewood to her house, pointing out that the explosion of the mine caused amputation of the right foot of the woman, in addition to fractures in her hand and other injuries scattered in her body.

According to the sources, the village of Daraa al-Dhab east of Al-Shaqab area, one of the areas besieged by the Houthi coup militia, pointing out that the militias infiltrate at night to these besieged areas and planting landmines in them. Because of the siege of the area by the coup militias.

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One thousand landmines have been seized by the Yemeni army since 2016.

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A martyr, 10,000 injured by Houthi mines since 2014.