The British news site Middle East Eye said that the six-year-old conflict in Yemen has harmed many Yemenis, but especially robbed those who lost their limbs due to the war, their future, independence and freedom.

The site stated - in a report from the southern city of Taiz - that Yemenis who lost their homes hope to rebuild them, and that the unemployed hope to return to their work, but those who have lost their legs or parts of it due to the conflict can no longer hope to walk normally again.

The British website spoke to 3 Yemenis who said that although they were victims of various weapons - such as landmines, bombing and air strikes - they all share the same suffering.

One of them is Abdo Saeed, 65, a farmer and father of 13 children from the Tha'abat area, which was one of the fighting fronts in Taiz - who lost one leg and suffered fractures in the other after he stepped on a landmine in 2019.

Said says, "Before the war, I used to walk freely, grazing my livestock, collecting firewood and working on the farm. I used to do any work available and support my family, but now I am a disabled man sitting at home and cannot do any work."

And like many disabled people, Saeed needs - according to the site - someone to take care of him, especially when he leaves his home to visit the prosthetic center, and looks pessimistically into the future, stressing that "everything can be repaired and rehabilitated, but when you lose your leg you become disabled forever, I cannot." I hope that the future will be better, and if all people forget this war one day, we will not forget it. "

Five-year-old girl Alaa Wissam is another example that reflects the suffering of Yemeni amputees, victims of the war, as she lost one of her legs after a house near her family's home was bombed in 2017.

Her mother, Mona, tells her story to Middle East Eye, saying, "It was three o'clock in the afternoon on November 2, 2017 when the bombing targeted the neighboring house. The shelling fell near the door of our house while Alaa was in the hall, wounding her by shrapnel." In the muscles of her legs, she was taken to the hospital and the doctors immediately took her to the operating room. I was very sad to hear the news of the amputation because the injury was not great at first, but they did.

Umm Alaa confirms that she is sad for her daughter, but also because of the fact that many children in Yemen are living the same situation and need to adapt to a new life without limbs.

Remote explosive objects have killed at least 5,500 Yemenis since 2015 (Reuters)

Destroyed dreams

Dalila Abdo Ahmed (30 years old) is another case of Yemeni war victims who lost their limbs. She was engaged to a man from her village when a landmine destroyed all her dreams and killed her happiness.

She tells her story to the site, saying, "Two years ago, there was a wedding in our village, I went to fetch water so that we had enough at home before I left for the wedding. A landmine exploded under my leg near the water tank. My cousin tried to help me, but she ran over a landmine." Another has lost her leg. "

Delilah and her cousin lost a lot of blood, prompting doctors to amputate their legs to save their lives.

Dalilah added, "Before the disability, I was engaged to someone from our village and we were about to celebrate our wedding, but when my leg was amputated, he did not visit me for 4 months and then decided not to marry me. He went to look for another girl. I was enjoying a comfortable life, but now as you can see I am a disabled woman, I lost Everything is beautiful in this life. "

Middle East Eye concludes that remote explosive objects in Yemen have killed at least 5,500 people since 2015, 80% of these human losses have occurred since 2017, according to a report issued by the ACL Tracking Data and Sites of Armed Conflict Project. ACLED.