{"id":42956,"date":"2019-09-19T10:18:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=42956"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T02:26:18","slug":"yemeni-govt-forces-dismantle-houthi-laid-minefield-in-hodeidah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=42956","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Gov&#8217;t Forces Dismantle Houthi-Laid Minefield In Hodeidah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ADEN, Sept 19 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Yemeni government forces declared, a large minefield, planted by the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah was dismantled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A team of explosives experts managed to dismantle a minefield planted by the Houthis in Khokhah district of Hodeidah, and protected civilians living in that area,&#8221; the pro-government Giants Brigades said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two women discovered that landmines started to appear because of the recent rains and wind, and immediately called the explosives experts to check the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The team of experts headed to the area &#8230; uncovering a minefield left over by Houthi militia, which withdrew from the area last year,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts were able to &#8220;dismantle and remove more than 20 landmines in an area frequently visited by sheep and camel herders,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landmines and explosives of various kinds and sizes are considered a deadly long-standing threat to the lives of millions of Yemenis, and have killed and injured hundreds of them, including women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports by humanitarian organisations suggested that Yemen has become one of the largest landmine battlefields in the world, since the World War II.&#8211; NNN-SABA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADEN, Sept 19 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Yemeni government forces declared, a large minefield, planted by the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah was dismantled. &#8220;A team of explosives experts managed to dismantle a minefield planted by the Houthis in Khokhah district of Hodeidah, and protected civilians living in that area,&#8221; the pro-government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,198,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}