Almasirah channel published an investigation of the dangers posed by mines and remnants of aggression and the role of the Executive Center for Mine Action in mitigating the risks that threaten the lives of civilians in several governorates.
Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action, Brigadier General Ali Safra, revealed a number of obstacles and challenges facing the center and limiting its work in clearing and removing the remnants of the aggression from mines and cluster bombs. He pointed out that “the limited human resources compared to the size and scope of pollution, cluster bombs and remnants of war have become a societal problem and a problem facing the Yemeni government.”
He pointed out that the center is the only program among 164 countries in the world that deals with explosives without life jackets and protective equipment, pointing to the UN’s disavowal of the center’s support by saying, “The United Nations and the Development Program have stopped the support.”
Safra explained that the center managed to remove 204 cluster bombs this year, bringing the total that has been lifted since the start of the aggression to more than 4.5 million small cluster bombs. He stated that from time to time, the center is surprised by discovering new types of cluster bombs targeting Yemen, where 19 types of American, British, Brazilian and finally Pakistani cluster bombs were detected.
He also revealed that the number of victims reached 46 during October of this year, including 18 martyrs and 28 wounded, and during the first week of November there are 8 martyrs, and the total number of victims during this year reached 650.
For his part, Director of the Monitoring and Documentation Department at the Executive Center for Mine Action, Colonel Amin Salman, confirmed that the number of victims documented since the beginning of the truce on April 2 until November 7, reached 119, including 54 children.
He warned, “Our center sounds the alarm and announces to everyone that the various threats and negative effects of cluster bombs are still ongoing and their impact extends for decades.”
In October, the Executive Center for Mine Action revealed numbers of the victims hit by US-Saudi remnant bombs and mines since the signing of the UN-sponsored truce in April 2022 until this October.
The statistics indicated that the total number of children was 131, including 25 killed, while the number of women reached 26, including 4 killed.
It is noteworthy that the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Joyce Msuya, visited on the 14th of this October, Al-Hodeidah Governorate, and was briefed on the conditions of the medical services in the Al-Thawra Hospital Authority, and the condition of the victims in the hospital.
