News - Yemen: The branch of the Humanitarian Affairs Council in Hodeidah Governorate delivered Monday demining equipment to the Executive Center for Mine Action in the governorate, provided by the United Nations Development Program.

The Undersecretary of the Governorate, Ahmed Al-Bishri, stressed that these devices were long overdue due to the restrictions imposed by the aggression coalition and the deliberate obstruction of their arrival for several months in Djibouti.

For his part, the Commander of the West Coast Forces, Major General Muhammad al-Qadri, considered the delivery of this equipment as part of the commitments agreed upon with the United Nations to save the lives of citizens from the dangers of death due to explosive remnants of the forces of the aggression coalition.

He pointed to the extensive efforts required to carry out the process of cleansing and removing the bombs and mines that pose a threat to the lives of civilians.

In turn, the Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action, Brigadier General Ali Safra, confirmed that the delivery of a quantity of detectors to the center's branch in Hodeidah will help the demining team to survey large areas suffering from the dangers of cluster bombs and mines.

The US-Saudi aggression used cluster bombs, mines and many internationally banned weapons, which negatively affected the lives of residents in local communities. It led to the fall of victims in various Yemeni regions, and doubled the suffering at various levels.

Many areas in Yemen's governorates have been bombarded by US-Saudi aggression with cluster bombs, while many of those internationally prohibited bombs are still scattered among farms and roads, and their victims are in the dozens.

The victims of cluster bombs have reached more than 25,000 civilians since the beginning of the US-Saudi aggression on Yemen.

The landmines and other remnants of the forces of aggression that they planted during their occupation, still pose a threat to the residents of many areas of the districts, especially farms and roads.

In official statistics, 2,500 cluster, destructive, phosphorous and piercing bomb raids targeted nine governorates in Yemen, foremost among which were US bombs like the CBU-87, British bombs like the BL755 and the Brazilian ASTROS II bombs.

Each of these weapons has its own properties and high impacts on humans and the environment, which remain life threatening for a long period of time. This shows the scale of the disaster that befell Yemen as a result of these US, British and other weapons.

The US-Saudi aggression refuses to enter equipment and devices to detect explosives in light of the silence of the United Nations, which bears the greatest responsibility for the continued casualties due to the remnants of the aggression, including mines and cluster bombs.