“Among the 45,000 bombs, 3,000 of them have not exploded and they are the ones that will cause, at the time of returns, at the time when humanitarian aid should be distributed, an additional risk, especially for civilians,” he told Radio France internationale Jean-Pierre Delomiere.
These figures are an estimate by the Mine Action Area of responsibility – a working group made up of NGOs active in the area, including Handicap International – for the period between October 7 and mid-January, when the bombing continue in the Gaza Strip.
Jean-Pierre Delomierre, deputy director for international operations at Handicap International, spent several days in Rafah, on the Egyptian border, where 1.5 million Palestinians, most of them displaced, have taken refuge.
He believes that only a cease-fire could give further “visibility” to Handicap International, in order to “start mine clearance operations without fear and reclamation of the land from the explosive remnants of war”.
Since early March, Handicap International has sent two experts for 15 days to begin assessing demining needs in the Gaza Strip.
In addition to access for the civilian population, this assessment will “also allow other humanitarian actors to be able to deploy in the areas in the north (…) that remain cut off today from this humanitarian aid,” Delomierre continued.
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