KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip — The most violent Israeli war on Gaza did not settle for the destruction and misery that civilians were left to bear. Israel also left unexploded ordnance (UXO) that can detonate with any unwise movement, thus continually killing people as if the war had not ceased.

The explosion of a device in northern Gaza, while Palestinian experts were attempting to disable it on Aug. 13, led to the death of six individuals, including journalists, one of whom was an Italian reporter working for the Associated Press in the Gaza Strip.

Medhat al-Batash, a technical department official for the explosives engineering unit in Gaza, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Interior, said that the UXOs of the current war are more dangerous than in any previous war.

According to several members of the unit, 150 rescue missions were conducted around Gaza during the cease-fire and around 70 missions during the war. These missions were being conducted with extremely limited capabilities, since the unit lacked protective shields, the necessary disabling tools, in addition to the limited number of available explosive ordnance disposal experts.