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The United Nations estimated the volume of rubble and debris that must be removed in the Gaza Strip at approximately 37 million tons.
“We estimated that there were 37 million tons of rubble, or about 300 kilograms of rubble per square meter, in the Gaza Strip, which before the war was densely populated and urban,” said UNMAS official Per Lodhamar.
He pointed out during a regular press statement to the United Nations in Geneva that “removing these rubble will take 14 years, assuming the use of about 100 trucks,” stressing that “unexploded ordnance has been mixed with the rubble, which will greatly complicate the task.”
Lodhamar considered that “no less than 10%” of the munitions fired in the conflict do not explode, and thus constitute a constant threat to the population, to the teams responsible for searching the rubble to recover the bodies of the victims, and to the workers tasked with removing the rubble.
He talked about a recent meeting held in Amman with the United Nations Development Program and non-governmental organizations, which was devoted to searching for the best ways to deal with this rubble mixed with explosives, and this comes in preparation for what might happen and for intervention in Gaza.
Source: Agencies
2024-04-28 02:39:19