Tasks UN to deploy to Gaza experts on unexploded ordnance
Admin I Monday, April 29, 2024
GAZA – The Israeli Defence Forces, IDF have continued to kill and inflict injuries on Palestinians even after withdrawing from settlements within the Gaza Strip.
Many returning Palestinians are facing series of amputations after opening cans of food left behind by the occupation.
Head of Government Media Office Salameh Maarouf who made the revelation warned against the recurrence of incidents where explosives left by the occupation army in citizens’ homes explode, especially those disguised as canned goods.
” Many citizens were injured by such booby-trapped cans, the latest being in the Al-Zana area of Khan Younis, where 14-year-old Mohammed Yasser Samour was seriously injured.
“He was searching for his personal belongings in his bombed house, found food cans left by the occupation, and opened them, causing an explosion that led to the amputation of some of his limbs and injured others with him”, he said.
He condemned the occupation’s crime for deliberately booby-trapping the remnants it leaves behind, “as if it were not enough to kill our people with direct bombing, thereby using the deception of booby-trapped cans to increase the number of martyrs and wounded, especially among children who cannot distinguish these remnants”, he said.
He said UN estimates, he said about 10% of the shells and bombs dropped by the occupation army, estimated at more than 75,000 tons of explosives, did not explode.
“This means about 7,500 tons of shells and bombs in the streets, on citizens’ lands, in their homes, among the debris, and under the rubble in various areas of the Gaza Strip.
“This represents a severe danger that will not end even with the cessation of aggression, unless they are removed and the risk of their explosion is neutralized”, he warned.
“Therefore, we urge our citizens not to tamper with such remnants and to pay close attention to what the occupation army leaves behind, including canned food, and to communicate with civil defense teams and specialized explosive engineering authorities to deal with these remnants.
“We demand that the international community introduce specialized engineering teams and explosives experts and provide the local competent authorities with the necessary technical capabilities to deal with these remnants and remove their danger from the citizens”, he said.
