This Palestinian boy lost his eyes for an unexploded bomb. There are thousands of tons of explosives in Gaza

Mohamed Hijazi leaps as his father opened a bandage for him. He cries and hits his feet, but his father ends the bandag to put the bandage over the eye.

“It’s nothing,” he said. But the guy is not fit.

Seven-year-old, in April, his family played outside the house with his cousins ​​in Cabalia, where he was taken by his family, when children did not blow up.

“Exploded in front of” he said. “We fell and we were full of blood.”

It was transferred to a hospital with an ophthalmology department that could be treated for children and then a hospital in the central Gaza in Gaza. The right eye was removed. He can still lose his left, and his father said.

Children who are drawn into shiny objects

For children like Muhammad, there are no dangers in Gaza, air attacks, sickness and nutrition, nutritional skills that have become regularly in the distribution places. But all newspapers, mine, booby traps and other weapons and other weapons lying around Gaza are especially insidious.

“They are different; they are literally bright,” said Luka Irving, the head of the UN Mina Action Program in the occupied territories. “A child would be involved immediately.”

According to the Office of Hamas in Gaza, 6,800 tons of unexploded orders can be an unexpected order Scattered throughout Gaza. This is based on the United Nations Organization Estimates that there are about five or 10 percent Failed to detonate from all weapons fired in the area.

Irving was 73 years old, 222, which was not approved by 222 of the 222 orders of 222 in 2023, 2023, said that 1200 people killed and another 250 hostages.

Most likely, hundreds have such encounters, but such incidents are not always considered official, Irving said. Most of the medical infrastructure in Gaza, instead of evaluating the cause of doctors, injuries or deaths in Gaza, they want to stabilize patients, he said.

The matches with part-time ammunition are not always fatal, but people with disastrous injuries and lifelong disabilities can be controlled by a health system that is weighted in a war zone.

17 of the 17’s of 17 Hospitals It was partly functional and without lifeless doctors, he was killed by December 2024, 2024.

‘Time bombs’

In the case of Muhammad, doctors said that his left eye could be saved, but was to be medically evacuated from Gaza for the operation. Until then, his father holds his hand and guides every step, it is used to fulfill its simple actions and tasks without thinking before.

“As a father, Hamoud (potential), who did not lose my life and normal life,” he said, “son Mohammed, using his nickname of his son. “I play his cousins ​​and players play with them. It is very difficult for me.”

Operations to clear the untreated order, until a war in Gaza and Israel continues to be in various parts of the enclave and return to various parts of the enclave, and the ammunition remains a sustainable threat.

And it’s not easy to find the place. The war not only claimed the lives of about 54,000 Palestinians; About is left 70 percent According to the United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian work, the structures of the enclave were destroyed or damaged. Hundreds of “tick tick bombs” mixed with this demolition, said irving.

“Because he left off work and an effective release mechanism is ready to explode, or it’s designed to shoot something, or it’s a timer, and it will explode.” “There’s an exploded and this risk.”

UN Mine Action Service was assessed last year UXO may take 14 years to clean the Gaza.

‘Dreams have not left’

Prior to the war, Mohammad was in a kindergarten, and his father at the beginning of the class. He had a picture of a child who took eight or nine months after the accident. At that time, the family moved to Southern Gaza for fighting north. Mohamed black dressed in a spool and took refuge by his family and his family. Great smiles for the camera.

When CBC met with him, he sat in partially destroyed houses in the war. There were wounds visible from the explosion. The elbow was wrapped with a dock; The rest of his eyes were saved with tears.

Muhammad always wanted to learn engineering, his father said. Initially, the accident encouraged him only; He told his father that he would be an engineer who could help rebuild Gaza. However, the prospect of losing the sight is strongly weakened.

“This explosion has destroyed the dreams of Hamoud,” he said. “And now he lost one’s eyes and could lose the other, no dreams left.”