The Yemeni Minister of Information, Muammar Iryani, has accused the Houthi militia of transforming civilian facilities, including neighborhoods, homes, mosques, and schools, into "minefields," resulting in thousands of women, children, and the elderly being killed or injured. He added via Twitter in both Arabic and English on Saturday that the Houthis planted a network of mines and explosive devices in one of the mosques in the recently liberated village of Al-Qudayba in the Al-Hays district, sufficient to blow up the surrounding neighborhood and kill hundreds of innocents. He stated that this "reveals the level of their criminality and brutality, and their abandonment of all religious, humanitarian, and moral values and considerations."
He also mentioned that the international community remains silent in the face of the unprecedented crimes committed by the Houthi militia against the Yemenis. The Yemeni minister confirmed that the international community, the United Nations, and the UN and American envoys are required to condemn the "crimes of planting banned mines in civilian areas" as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and to work on including the Houthi group in international terrorism lists.
The Yemeni Mine Observatory has reported documenting 101 victims due to the landmines planted by the Houthi militias and unexploded ordnance left over from the war in several Yemeni provinces during the first half of this year.
