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Four children injured by unexploded Israeli ordnance in Gaza
Four children injured by unexploded Israeli ordnance in Gaza
Al Qassam
website
07/07/2012
- Gaza- Four Palestinian
children were wounded on Saturday morning after an
unexploded Israeli ordnance blew up in the besieged Gaza
Strip.
Israel's lethal trash still harming
The explosion took place in the Central Gaza Strip east of Deir Al Balah City as the children were playing.
The father of the four children said that they were palying near home at the time of the explosion.
Mediacal sources reported that the children were moderately and lightly injured.
Blasts caused by unexploded Israeli ordnances have killed or injured many Palestinian children and farmers in Gaza and the West Bank.
Gaza is currently riddled with unexploded ordnances, left over from Israel's war on the blockaded coastal strip at the turn of 2009.
Unexploded ordnance (UXOs) are explosive weapons such as bombs, bullets, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines that did not explode when they were employed and still pose the risk of detonation, potentially many years after they were used or discarded.
The UXOs hinder the already-difficult task of reconstructing homes and essential infrastructure.
Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, a situation which has caused a decline in the standards of living, and has triggered unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
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