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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.

Palestinian police bomb squad
Palestinian bomb squad police officers search for pieces of Israeli missiles in the rubble of the office of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine following an Israeli airstrike on May 17, 2004, in Gaza City. — Getty Images

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.

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