75 thousand tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on Gaza

Today, Monday, the Government Information Office in Gaza warned of the explosion of remnants of the Israeli occupation army in Palestinian homes, saying: We condemn the occupation’s crime of deliberately booby-trapping the remnants it leaves behind, as if it were not satisfied with killing our people with direct bombing, so it uses the deception of booby-trapped cans to increase the number of martyrs. And the wounded, especially children, who cannot distinguish these remnants.

He said in a statement that about 10% of the shells and bombs dropped by the Israeli occupation army, which are estimated at more than 75 thousand tons of explosives, did not explode, according to UN estimates confirmed by reports of Gaza Strip institutions.

The head of the office, Salama Maarouf, said in press statements that about 7.5 thousand tons of shells and bombs are present in the streets, lands, houses, among the rubble and under the rubble in various areas of the Gaza Strip, warning that these tons of explosives pose an extreme danger that will not end even with the end of the aggression. Unless they are removed and the risk of explosion is neutralized.

Marouf called on the people of the Gaza Strip not to tamper with these wastes and to pay close attention to the canned food that the occupation army leaves behind, and to communicate with civil defense crews and authorities specialized in explosives engineering.

Marouf called on the international community to bring in specialized engineering teams and explosives experts and provide local competent authorities with the necessary technical capabilities.

It is noteworthy that many residents were injured as a result of the explosion of such unexploded cans. Among them is the child Muhammad Yasser Samour (14 years old) in the Al-Zana area in Khan Yunis, who was seriously injured while searching for his personal belongings inside his bombed house and found cans of food left over from the occupation, and after opening them they exploded, leading to the amputation of some of his limbs and the injury of others along with him.