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It takes 14 years to clean up Gaza from the garbage

2024-04-26 13:59:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

It takes 14 years to clean up Gaza from the garbage

Aerial views show the extent of destruction in the central part of the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli war.

It could take up to 14 years to clear the Gaza Strip of debris, including unexploded ordnance, left by Israel's devastating war, a United Nations official said Friday.

Israel's ground and air war against Hamas — the group designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union — has devastated most of the tiny coastal territory of 2.3 million people, leaving most civilians homeless, hungry and vulnerable. from diseases.

Pehr Lodhammar, the UN's top mine action official (UNMAS), said Friday in Geneva that the war has littered the overpopulated Palestinian territory with 37 billion tons of debris.

He said that although it is not possible to know the exact number of unexploded ordnance in Gaza, it is estimated that it could take 14 years under certain conditions to remove the debris, including the rubble of destroyed buildings.

"We know there is a 10 percent failure rate of ground munitions that are being fired and not exploding," he said.

"We are talking about 14 years of work with 100 tractors", he added.

Israel's war in Gaza against Hamas began after members of the group killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped about 250 others during that attack in southern Israel.

More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, two-thirds of them children and women, as a result of Israel's war in Gaza since then, according to Palestinian health officials./ REL 





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