A village leader has confirmed that hundreds of students have been pushed out of their local school and distributed among other remote schools after landmines destroyed half of their school. Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Neweehy, a leader of the Akkad village in Taiz Governorate’s Jabal Habashi district, told Project Masam:”We were shocked by an explosion that rocked…
Hundreds of schools in Yemen have been deliberately targeted by the Houthi militias, who planted thousands of landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). One of the students of the Al Shaab School, located in Jabal Habashi District, Taiz province, eight-year-old Hady Abdo Fadel, was injured after a explosive device detonated. “I was playing in my…
Since 2015, the Houthi militias have adopted the approach of planting landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) intensively and indiscriminately in all areas and villages they seized all over Yemen. Schools were one of the places deliberately targeted by the Houthi militias – they turned them into military barracks or littered them with landmines and…
The head of Jabal Habashi district, west of Taiz Governorate in Yemen’s southwest has warned that the majority of parents in his area had stopped sending their children to school because of the presence of landmines near or in these schools. On the other hand, some parents had no other choice but to send their…
