UN: 300 kilograms of rubble per square meter in the Gaza Strip
Published: Friday, Apr 26th 2024, 14:30
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According to United Nations estimates, there are already around 300 kilograms of scrap metal per square meter of land lying around in the heavily destroyed Gaza Strip.
With 100 trucks, it would take 14 years to remove all this, said Pehr Lodhammar from the United Nations Mine Action Service (Unmas) in Geneva on Friday. There is also the danger of unexploded ordnance. There are no concrete estimates of how much live ammunition that did not explode on impact is lying in the ground, said Lodhammar. However, it is known that typically ten percent of the ammunition fired did not explode initially and remained behind as unexploded ordnance.
Israel is responding to the devastating attacks by terrorists from the Gaza Strip on October 7 in the south of the country with massive military strikes. According to the health authority in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamist Hamas, more than 34,000 people have died in the past six months and tens of thousands of houses and apartments have been destroyed.
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