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Shotlist:
1. Aerial shots of national flag of Yemen, city view;
2. Various of debris, damaged buildings;
3. Al-Hudaydah, Yemen - March 15-22, 2024.
Various of landmines;
4. Ahmed Salem, resident, holding boy;
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Salem, resident:
"I used to have a job when I could still walk, but I was injured. My friend and I were riding a motorbike and ran over a landmine. My friend died and I lost my legs."
6. Ahmed Salem's home, buckets;
7. Ahmed Salem on wheelchair, boy on him;
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Salem, resident:
"It affected me too much. I can't do anything. I can't earn a single penny nor run away. I can't work and nobody can feed us. I have children but I can't feed them and I have nothing to give them.";
9. Various of Ahmed Salem's friends pushing wheelchair, Ahmed Salem and his boy on wheelchair;
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Salem, resident:
"In my case, the only way for me is to go abroad for treatment. I need a mobile prosthetic leg to walk. I have a knee joint that can move, but I don't have the other one. Planting mines is a terrible sin and most of the victims are innocent civilians."
11. Aerial shot of desert;
12. Various of mine clearance team preparing for, carry out mine clearance operation;
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sam Saeed, leader of mine clearance team for Masam Project in Hays (ending with shot 14):
"Since the Masam was found, we have removed a total of 434,000 landmines, shells and other types of explosive devices. Meanwhile, we also focus on training members to improve their technology to avoid risks as much as possible.";
14. Various of Masam members carrying out mine clearance operations;
15. Landmine exploding;
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sam Saeed, leader, mine clearance team for Masam Project (ending with shot 17):
"We face many difficulties in field demining operations, including landmines targeting individual soldiers and booby-trap devices. Our members faced too much. We don't have a map of the minefields, so both the location of the minefields and the density of the mines are extremely random."
17. Various of Masam members carrying out mine clearance operations;
18. Landmines;
19. Aerial shot of vehicles moving in desert;

Storyline:
Landmines laid by rival factions during years of civil war in Yemen have left a lasting and lethal legacy that continues to plague the lives of people living in the worst-affected areas.

Although the warring parties in Yemen have largely observed a basic ceasefire under the mediation of the international community led by the United Nations since April 2022, landmines are not party to these agreements.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.9 million Yemenis are living with disabilities, while at the National Prosthetics Center in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, 9,800 to 11,000 prosthetic limbs are needed every month to treat patients, up from 1,500 a month before the war.

Ahmed Salem, who used to be the principle breadwinner for his family, lost both his legs when riding with his friend on a motorbike which triggered a landmine.

Although he survived the explosion, his pain lingers on as his family now relies on international aid and help from friends and relatives.

Salem's only chance to resume a normal life is to be fitted with prosthetic legs, which are not readily available in Yemen.

Despite dangers and the ongoing war, there are still brave individuals who have taken it upon themselves to help combat the scourge of landmines.

The Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (Masam) which was founded in 2018 has cleared hundreds of minefields across Yemen in the past six years, enabling villagers to replant their fields and facilitating the return of refugees who fled the war.

With the development of technology, warfare has become far more complex than it was a few decades ago, presenting Masam's field technicians with unprecedented challenges.

Over the past six years, 32 Masam members, including five foreign experts, have been killed in demining operations in Yemen.

It takes a hundred times longer to clear a mine than to plant one. Even if peace is restored, the task of fully removing landmines will not be completed any time soon, and landmines will continue to pose a lasting threat in the war-torn country.

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