Gaza bomb squad handles ordnance with scant equipment
The Gaza Strip's bomb squad is working with severely limited resources to neutralize the deadly ordnance left behind after the latest Israel-Gaza fighting.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The bomb disposal squad in the Gaza Strip has neutralized 1,200 unexploded bombs and shells fired by Israel during the recent escalation in Gaza, Mohammed Miqdad, an explosives engineer at Gaza’s Interior Ministry, told Al-Monitor.
On May 21, Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire agreement, after the escalation that erupted on May 10.
Miqdad explained that the explosives included artillery shells, smoke shells, guided missiles and bombs. According to the Environmental and Water Quality Authority in Gaza, Israel dropped 700 tons of explosives during the recent fighting, leaving 275,000 tons of rubble behind.
“Israel targeted our headquarters and destroyed it completely and we lost the scarce equipment that we had, but we did not stop working,” Miqdad stressed.
