A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and sustained limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food found while looking for his belongings in his house that had been shelled by Israeli forces in Khan Younis,” the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said, citing the Strip’s authorities.
The young victim who reportedly sustained life-changing injuries on Monday is just one of “many people recently injured” from supplies rigged with hidden explosive charges, OCHA said in its latest update on the emergency.
UN mine action experts have estimated that some 7,500 tonnes of unexploded ordnance could be “scattered” throughout Gaza which could take up to 14 years to clear. To mitigate the risk for civilians and aid teams in the meantime, the UN Mine Action Service, UNMAS, has issued increasingly urgent appeals for assistance from the international community to remove explosive remnants of war.
Link throws an access denied error. Do you have an alternative source?
Also TIL the UN mostly uses a .org instead of their .int domain.
A lot of their URIs predate
.intand they don’t want to break those linksun.int has been around for decades. Digging into the Internet Archive it looks like the very first cached version of un.int seems to redirect to un.org, but I doubt there were that many URIs on un.org back in 1997.
Looks like they use both and have different uses?
Yup. That’s what people generally do. If you get custom special domains you’ll use it for new stuff and the old stuff will continue on old patterns
Here’s an alternative link: https://www.eurasiareview.com/02052024-gazans-face-new-terror-threat-from-booby-trapped-cans-of-food
BUT: It seems that the UN deleted the article.
When looking for an alternative link, I found also this: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/feb/01/instagram-posts/no-viral-footage-doesnt-show-explosives-disguised
I’m sorry, seems that you can’t trust the UN news?
It’s possible whoever wrote for the UN fell for fake news. Good thing they deleted the article when they found out!
Everyone on here was falling for it too.