While the fight in the air could stop in gas, the danger remains for the Palestinians returning to the part of the war torn territory because of the unexploded bombs on earth.
They compress with mounds of debris and destruction.
In Gaza, efforts are underway to locate and remove these bombs, starting from southern Gaza in Rafah-who saw one of the heaviest fights during 15 months between Israel and Hamas. But the MINES advisory groups say that in order to solve a significant number of other solutions (UXO), a wider reaction is crucial.
For Gazanów, this is an additional fear of death despite the suspension of weapons that stopped the offensive of air and soil.
“He is afraid of young, for our families,” said Raed Al-Aak, 27-year-old three-year-old Rafah, said CBC News
“I am afraid to leave the house and encounter a rocket that explodes to me, my wife or my children or on the street on my neighbors … anywhere.”
While it seems that the suspension of Israel-Hamas weapons persists in gas, the danger remains present to Palestinians, because unexplored ordinances seem widespread in areas in areas in war-torn enclave. Mohammed Muqdad, head of the explosive department in Rafah, says that teams are working every day to remove what is possible with minimal equipment.
With access to gauze still limited, especially in the first stage Israel-Hamas suspensionGreg Crowther, Programs Director at Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is difficult.
“It is obvious that there will be a significant threat to life and a long-term barrier to reconstruction efforts,” said Crowthr in the e-mail to CBC News on Friday.
“Dangerous environment”
For now, he focuses on risk education on territory.
The magician, which helped clean the MyMin gauze after the conflicts in 2008 and 2009, established cooperation with the Save Youth Future Society and arranged 20 educational teams in gas risk, to teach the community how to keep security around explosive threats by recognizing, avoiding and reporting possible threats. Since the premiere in September 2024, they got sessions of over 160,000 people.
Crowthr said that because the gauze is densely populated and highly urbanized, the use of explosive weapons had a “particularly destructive effect.”
“In addition to what is visible, you must also include objects that have not yet detonated, but to remain hidden, exposing people at risk – it creates a dangerous environment, especially since people return to the location of the house and dig the debris,” he said – he said .
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNmas) had previously warned against explosive regulations that became “increasingly widespread”, in a small coastal enclave, which was under the great bombardment by Israel.
He said that his explosives (EOD) met with air bombs, mortars, rockets, bullets from all over the caliber, grenades and improvised explosives.
Deeply buried bombs common in gas
In particular, in gas deeply buried bombs are found underneath or under infrastructure and under the rubble.
“When families return to their homes, we quickly increase our ability to reduce the explosive risk of a regulation for civilian and humanitarian,” Unmas said on the position on Monday.
When more Palestinians return to the different parts of the Gaza Strip after suspension of the weapon, which began on Sunday, the UN damage assessment published this month showed that cleaning over 50 million tons of debris left after the bombing of Israel may take 21 years and cost up to 1, USD 2 billion us.
Mohammed Muqdad, head of the Rafah explosive department, said that his teams began to locate and remove their weapons in the first phase of weapon suspension.
“Rafah was particularly affected, most of the area was destroyed,” said Muqdad in CBC News on Wednesday.
“We were dealing with dozens of other unexploded bubbles, which we transport to safe areas to finally get rid of them.”
Children learn to recognize weapons
Until now, the teams have made over 120 connections to remove UXO, working every day from Sunday.
“The team is still working on further removal of other ordinances from residential areas,” he said. “We do as much as possible to raise and remove (them).”
Muqdad said that the teams removed bombs used in aircraft such as MK, GBU 39, cannons and tanks, but they require special technical equipment to remove much larger explosives.
The authorities asked the residents to stay away from some dangerous areas and are believed to have a large number of these devices.
Some ordinances, such as smaller explosives, which are thrown out of cluster ammunition, may initially not look like ordinary threats to children, which may be danger.
Crowthr said that children also take part in risk education sessions to be aware of the types of weapons used in the war.
“It is especially important to share them with them, because their natural curiosity can expose them to a greater risk of injuries if they come across explosive weapons and simply assume that they are toys,” he said.
Al-Aakka called experts to remove explosives.
“So we can take freedom and go to our homes, remove debris and sit in our homes,” said Al-Aak.
“We saw enough martyrs and bloodshed in war.”
Limited coordination, gas ability
Crowthr said that the assessment of explosive threats and research, in addition to technical equipment, must be expanded to enable a wider humanitarian reaction.
“Currently, there is limited coordination and ability to perform these actions, both in terms of the required technical equipment and the number of qualified staff that are currently in gas,” said Crowther.
According to the Ministry of Health, over 47,000 Palestinians were killed by Israel in a 15-month war. Due to the chaos of war, checking the exact number of victims was difficult and was subject to control.
The coastal enclave was largely demolished by the Israeli army after Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel. According to Israel, the assault was killed by 1200 people with about 250 hostages admitted to Gaza. About 94 Israelis and foreigners remain in gas. It is not clear how much he lives.
Palestinian civil defense said that they were looking for about 10,000 bodies considered to be under the rubble.
Reviewed study published in Lancet On January 9, he suggests that official numbers of death in gas can be significantly underestimated. On June 30, 2024, the Ministry of Health Gaza reported 37,877 deaths; The study estimated that the number was probably around 64,200 until that day.