The Red Cross warns: Wars waste is a time bomb that threatens the lives of children
Regional spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Suhair Zaqout, warned today that the waste of war is a time bomb that threatens the lives of children and constitutes a real challenge to the population in the Middle East region that witnessed armed conflicts and violence acts over more than 5 decades. To remove the waste of wars scattered in many places in the Middle East, especially in the most affected areas such as Gaza, Syria and Iraq stems from the needs and pours these efforts to raise awareness of the dangers of those waste that does not harm the population only when they return to their homes, but the greatest danger is on the most vulnerable children & quot;
and added: Our efforts are focused on changing behavior and raising awareness of the dangers of these waste Which represents a silent threat to the life of the innocent, the information is the first way to survive the danger .. A counselor that awareness of the dangers of war waste in Gaza began more than a decade ago and continued until before the seventh of October, and today after the ceasefire after the war and the aggression on the Strip for more than 15 months and the start of the civilians returning to their areas where they were displaced from which the danger of these waste is widely spread, especially on Ali Children. To carry out awareness campaigns and cooperate with the authorities that carry out removal operations & quot;
It is noteworthy that the war waste has killed 169 people in Syria since 2025, including 31 children and 6 women. It is estimated that there are 320,000 unexploded ammunition from the devastating war waste, which poses a threat to 5 million children who live in Syria, while the number of victims of war waste in Iraq reached More than 30,000 people since 2003 and there are more than 2000 km/m still needed mine cleansing. & nbsp;
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