{"id":22110,"date":"2025-07-16T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectmasam.com\/eng\/?p=22110"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:24:09","slug":"houthi-mines-kill-and-injure-107-yemenis-in-first-half-of-2025-1-3-are-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/houthi-mines-kill-and-injure-107-yemenis-in-first-half-of-2025-1-3-are-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthi mines kill and injure 107 Yemenis in first half of 2025, 1\/3 are children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Landmines and unexploded ordnance claimed the lives or caused injuries to 107 Yemenis during the first half of 2025, according to Yemen Today<\/a> satellite channel.<\/p>\n

Citing figures from international non-governmental organisation Save the Children<\/a>, the channel reported that children remain the most affected by Houthi-laid mines, which continue to litter residential neighbourhoods, roads leading to schools, and playgrounds.<\/p>\n

A recent tragedy in Taiz, where five children were killed while playing football, brought the number of child victims to over 40, accounting for 37% of total casualties.<\/p>\n

The report also highlighted alarming statistics from Project Masam, which has removed over half a million mines, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance since its launch in mid-2018.<\/p>\n

Despite these efforts, an estimated two million Houthi-laid mines remain buried across the country, posing a deadly threat to civilians and potentially endangering lives for the next three decades.<\/p>\n

Project Masam’s Managing Director Ousama Algosaibi announced that project teams removed 505,466 landmines<\/a>, explosive devices, and unexploded ordnance since the project\u2019s inception up to 11 July 2025.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Algosaibi detailed the breakdown of the cleared items: 343,570 pieces of unexploded ordnance, 8,244 explosive devices, 146,830 anti-tank mines, and 6,822 anti-personnel mines.<\/p>\n

He noted that demining teams have cleared more than 68,338,920 square metres of Yemeni land, paving the way for the resumption of agriculture, housing, and infrastructure reconstruction in previously contaminated areas.<\/p>\n

Algosaibi emphasised that these operations are part of the project\u2019s broader humanitarian mission to protect civilians and restore normal life in mine-affected regions – areas that remain among the most dangerous zones for Yemen\u2019s population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Landmines and unexploded ordnance claimed the lives or caused injuries to 107 Yemenis during the first half of 2025, according to Yemen Today satellite channel. Citing figures from international non-governmental organisation Save the Children, the channel reported that children remain the most affected by Houthi-laid mines, which continue to litter residential neighbourhoods, roads leading to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":22111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[312,205,151,292,308,115,342,331,149,201,103,284,100,97,165,131,352,154,234,99,124,387,98,110,30,283,102,275,129,101,252,109,249,111,108],"class_list":["post-22110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-landminesban","tag-yemencantwait","tag-anti-personnel-landmines","tag-anti-personnel-landmines-yemen","tag-anti-tank-landmines","tag-civilians-killed","tag-deminers","tag-demining","tag-houthi-landmines","tag-houthi-militias","tag-houthis","tag-houthis-yemen","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarian","tag-humanitarian-mine-action","tag-internally-displaced-yemen","tag-landmine-clearance","tag-landmine-survivors","tag-landmine-victims","tag-landmines","tag-landmines-in-yemen","tag-landmines-yemen","tag-mine-action","tag-mine-clearance","tag-news","tag-ousama-algosaibi","tag-project-masam","tag-project-masam-yemen","tag-refugees-yemen","tag-yemen","tag-yemen-conflict","tag-yemen-crisis","tag-yemen-landmines","tag-yemen-news","tag-yemen-war","category-18","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22112,"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22110\/revisions\/22112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmasam.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}