US EditionShiny and deadly, unexploded munitions a threat to Gaza children
- In Gaza, unexploded ordnance poses a continuous threat, especially to children returning to their homes.
- Months of war and intense bombardments left Gaza littered with weapons that failed to detonate on impact.
- UXO comes in various forms, and children are drawn to the shiny metal casings, often mistaking them for toys.
- Azzam told AFP after being wounded, "I didn't know it was explosive, but suddenly it detonated."
- Demining experts estimate it could take 14 years to clear Gaza of UXO, and, meanwhile, people are dying daily.
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Thelocalreport.inUnexploded Bombs Threaten Children In Gaza
War has left Gaza littered with unexploded bombs that will take years to clear, with children drawn to metal casings maimed or even killed when they try to pick them up, a demining expert said. Nicholas Orr, a former UK military deminer, told AFP after a mission to the war-battered Palestinian territory that "we're losing two people a day to UXO (unexploded ordnance) at the moment." According to Orr, most of the casualties are children out of sc…
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Jerusalem - "A weird thing, they play with it, and it's the end": the Gaza Strip is littered with unexploded ordnance that will take years to be cleaned, exposing its inhabitants, especially children, to a danger of death or injury of "absolute brutality"
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varmatin.com"At the moment, two people are being lost a day as a result of unexploded ordnance, and most of them are children who do not have school," said AFP Nicholas Orr, former British deminer returning from Gaza where he visited Handicap International.
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