The Executive Center for Mine Action in Hodeidah Governorate revealed a new toll of civilian casualties as a result of the remnants of the US-Saudi aggression during the past year.
The center explained in a statement that, during the past year 2023, these remnants of explosive objects in the governorate claimed the lives of 52 people, including 19 children and five women, and injured 80 people, including four women and 24 children.
He pointed out that most of the areas that witnessed an escalation by the aggression and its mercenaries in the governorate were contaminated with mines and waste, and that some of the terrain and the lack of dedicated machinery hindered efforts to remove them, indicating that an area of 694,576 square meters of contaminated sites was cleared during the year 2023 AD.
The report called on the United Nations Development Program to re-provide support to the center, which has stopped completely since last June, causing the cessation of the activities and work of training working cadres and a decline in the center’s readiness to carry out the work entrusted to it in the required manner.
Hodeidah Governorate is one of the areas most contaminated with mines and remnants of the American-Saudi-Emirati aggression.
