LONDON, (PIC)
The United Nations estimated the volume of debris that must be removed from the war-torn Gaza Strip at 37 million tons, noting that these huge quantities require many years to be cleared.
An official at the United Nations Mine Action Service, Pehr Lodhammar said, Israel’s war in Gaza has created 37m tons of debris with an average of 300kg of rubble per a square meter of land in Gaza, noting that 65% of the destroyed buildings in the Strip were residential buildings.
“Based on the current (amount of) debris in Gaza, with 100 trucks we are talking about 14 years of work … to remove it,” Lodhammar said at a United Nations news conference in Geneva.
He stressed that clearing the debris will be dangerous work because of the threat from the unexploded ordnance such as shells, missiles or other weapons buried in collapsed or damaged buildings. On average about 10% of weapons failed to detonate when they were fired and had to be removed by demining teams, Lodhammar said.
For the 204th day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces have been committing crimes of genocide in the Gaza Strip by launching dozens of airstrikes and artillery shelling and carrying out bloody massacres and horrific crimes against civilians in the areas of incursion, amid catastrophic humanitarian conditions as a result of the siege and the displacement of most of the population.
