The United Nations Mission to Monitor the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA) said on Saturday that it had recorded the killing and wounding of 13 people, including children, due to the explosion of mines and war remnants during the month of December in the Hodeidah Governorate in western Yemen.

A child and his father were injured on Tuesday when a landmine left behind by the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militia exploded in the south of Al Hudaydah Governorate, western Yemen.

A citizen named Mohammed Saleh Al-Zar’i was killed on Sunday as a result of a mine explosion planted by the Houthi militia in the Al-Salan area in Al-Masloub District in Al-Jawf Governorate, according to a tribal source.

The Saudi MASAM project for mine clearance in Yemen announced today, Saturday, the clearing of an area of approximately 450 thousand square meters in the Al-Alam area in the Asilan district, Shabwa governorate, southeast of Yemen.

The Director of the Executive Center for Mine Action, Head of the Military Engineering Division in the Taiz Axis, and Supervisor of the Masam Project in Taiz Governorate, Aref Al-Qahtani, confirmed that 18 directorates are contaminated with mines and explosive devices.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Shaye Al-Zindani, discussed today, Sunday, with the head of the United Nations Mission to support the Hodeidah Agreement (UNMHA), retired Major General Michael Perry, the Houthi threats to international navigation and mine clearance efforts in Hodeidah Governorate.