Hodeidah ... a symposium discussing the devastating impact of Houthi mines on the environment
English - Monday 09 November 2020 الساعة 02:17 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
On Sunday, an environmental symposium was held in the city of Al-Khokha in Al-Hodeidah Governorate (western Yemen) in conjunction with the International Day for Preventing the Use of the Environment in Wars, which falls on November 6 of each year.
The symposium organized by the Public Authority for Environmental Protection in Al Hodeidah Governorate, in the presence of the Commander of the Coast Guard Forces Colonel Abduljabar Zahzouh, and a member of the government team, Colonel Farouk Al Khawlani, discussed two axes: the first is about the floating Safer reservoir off Ras Issa port and the second is the effects of the war on environmental issues.
The Director General of the Public Authority for Environmental Protection in Hodeidah, Dr. Fathy Atta, stressed the importance of enhancing and protecting the environment from mines planted by the Houthi militia in the areas of the western coast as well as in the Red Sea.
The participants in the symposium recommended submitting a request to the United Nations to play its role towards protecting the environment in Yemen, and to pressure the Houthi militia to stop planting mines on farms, beaches and seas.
While the Director General of Al-Khokha Directorate, Salem Alian, indicated that the Safer oil reservoir is considered the biggest environmental disaster, stressing the Houthi militia's intransigence to prevent any maintenance of the reservoir since its coup against the state in September 2014
