Thursday 23 January 2025 - 13:15
Gaza bombs clearance could take 10 years: UN

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that it requires $500 million and a decade-long process to clear mines and buried explosives.

Hawzah News Agency- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that one of the significant challenges in rebuilding Gaza is the clearance of landmines and other unexploded ordnance left behind from fifteen months of the Israeli war in the enclave.

OCHA cited a recent report from the Global Protection Cluster, a group of UN and other humanitarian organizations, which estimated the explosives buried in the rubble in Gaza would take “$500 million over 10 years to clear” from some 42 million tons of rubble which also contains asbestos, other hazardous contaminants, and human remains.

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