Meithalun - ميثلون: Awareness of the dangers of mines and explosive remnants of war and suspicious objects - حرب ربايعه

Awareness of the dangers of mines and explosive remnants of war and suspicious objects

"It is the right of everyone to live in a safe environment ... your life is more precious than 1 kg aluminum or copper or lead to the sale does not close, do not touch any foreign object ... The competent authorities immediately."


Because of the difficult situations experienced by the Palestinian people, as a result of frequent accidents caused by explosive remnants of war was necessary to conduct a campaign to raise the risk of explosive remnants of war, he felt the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the basis of its humanitarian role to take their campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of this waste in all segments of Palestinian society, where the campaign was launched since 1999 and is still going on so far.

Objective of the campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of mines explosive remnants of war: to reduce the occurrence of many accidents due to explosive remnants of war, despite the community's awareness and knowledge of the seriousness of the waste.

** Mine: is an object containing an explosive substance designed to kill or wound a person who is less than or Elamsh, mine may be visible on the surface of the ground or hidden, and these mines are different in their design and the degree of injury or damage caused by depending on the volume of material the explosive.


History on the Use of Mines:

Began the use of landmines in the First World War when it began to use the tanks for the first time in the war and that the Anti-tank was a major threat to the tanks, with special units searching for the mines and remove them, was the invention of anti-personnel landmines in order to prevent the soldiers the clearance of anti-tank mines were laid anti-personnel mines on the anti-tank protection to them. This was the beginning of the use of anti-personnel mines.

** Where's mine to Palestine

1 - Ottoman presence: it ended with the end of the First World War.
2 - British colonial rule: the existence and ended the year 1948.
3 - the Zionist invasion of Palestine in 1948.
4 - Jordan during its presence in the West Bank until 1967
5 - the Gaza Strip was under Egyptian control.
4 - the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967.

The main problem is not the most important and in the presence of the surface is surrounded by minefields and barbed wire installed by the warning signs, but the main problem is the presence of minefields, which are areas of open training the Israeli army and ammunition from the very volatile.

** Why use mines

1 - in order to protect military bases and installations task.
2 - in order to guide the enemy forces or diversion.
3 - in order to prevent the enemy from the behavior of some roads.
4 - in order to delay the movements of the enemy.
5 - in order to protect the border between the States.
6 - with a view to injury and kill the largest number of enemy forces.

** Types of devices: hazardous materials

1 - anti-personnel landmines. It is (mines buried under the earth's surface) (mines placed on the surface of the ground and hide very well, making it difficult to see and often are linked at the wire to touch the mine to explode.)

2 - Anti-armor (tanks, armored vehicles) (designed to blow up military vehicles and is in need of considerable weight to explode, but with the passage of time, corrode and become dangerous to people)

3 - unexploded ordnance (remnants of the army). And them (grenades, artillery shells, mortar shells, rockets, bullets)

4 - Booby Traps (Massa principles dupes). (Known to be in the form of people and of them. Hours. Pen. Cameras. Played)

5 - People's packagings manufactured locally. (Manufactured home)


** Minefield: an area of land cultivated by more than mine.
In the light of the signing of the Oslo agreement between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, said the Israeli army on the presence of 15 minefields scattered in different parts of the West Bank.


** What is the nature of the damage caused by mines and remnants of war

1 - the physical impact: the explosion of mines lead to death or amputation of one of the parties, or arson, mutilation or loss of vision, which prevents a person's life.
2 - Psychological Impact: (the self-confidence and a sense of inferiority)
3 - Economic impact: the cultivation of land mines in the agriculture and farming to prevent the explosion of mines and remnants of war may lead to the killing of livestock, leading to the loss of their owners and, if the injured or the victim is the head of the family has become a family without a breadwinner.

** Why do people get when a mine and munitions of war? . . . It is not a matter of luck. . .

1 - the risk of unintended: find people on the mines and remnants of war by accident or intent is never to enter a dangerous area.

2 - unintended risk: most of the accidents resulting from the misconduct and take risks in order to, as some people are well aware of the risk involved in the entry area or touch certain substances.
Why risk the lives of these individuals
? extent: there are those who believe that the inevitable fate of a member of this group of older persons who do not wish to change their behavior. (If God will be with me something writer Baasyir)
? giants: those who survive the risk of what he thought that the coming times will also belong to this category of young people who have military experience. It must also remind them that (not every time the receipt of the pot). They must be role models for others, especially children.
? Researchers from the adventure: a member of this group of young adolescents who are aware of the dangers resulting from their actions, but they do not understand how serious, and these remnants of war had been collecting military anniversary.
? Economic needs: this category belongs to the family members who are middle age for economic reasons, find themselves forced to collect aluminum, copper and scrap metal in general. Memories of your life is more precious than a kilogram copper.
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** What are the dangerous areas
? destroyed houses.
? orchards and fields.
? dirt roads, especially a place to throw waste from settlements and place of the dumping of waste in general.
? All areas that were the scene of fighting, or those declared dangerous.
? all areas of income and the army withdrew from school, such as apartment buildings, etc. ... all of the area to be searched.
? on the borders of the apartheid wall and settlements and the areas near the border and near the training camps.

** Warning signals: square, rectangle, triangle prevailing languages written on it.

** What are the main evidence for the existence of mines or explosive objects are in the absence of a warning signal
1 - sick or dead animals.
2 - open a mine in part.
3 - wire attached to a mine.
4 - prominent people of the land.
5 - safety valves lying on the ground.
6 - an unusual pile of dust.
7 - blank bullets or fragments are scattered.
8 - anything that seems to be not related to the relevant area (unusual area).

** What is the safe disposal of others in areas known
? Ask the local population or of those responsible for the safe places.
? Take the road or used or paved walkways.
? noted the obstacles in the path or corridor.
? do not try to never check a foreign object.

** How to act in the event of a suspicious object
1 - not to approach.
2 - Non-touch.
3 - Not to throw any object, such as a fire or set fire or throw rocks or spray water on it.
4 - Check "on the children if it was difficult to put a sign on the child is not required to do so."
5 - the communication of the competent authorities.

** How to act if you are in a minefield
1 - Calm down ... the hours are better than to lose your life.
2 - stop.
3 - Do not touch.
4 - Request to scream for help if you are in a populated area.
5 - wait as long as possible up to days and if the return would be the personal responsibility and we recommend that the same road.
6 - was the competent authorities.

** A reminder: --
1 - does not mean the end of the fighting in any way the end of the danger.
2 - does not mean an explosion of the mine the first time that he would not explode at a later date.
3 - is the danger even in the parts and pieces of the remaining ordnance.
4 - to cross the cattle in the fields affected did not mean to be safe or free of mines or ordnance.
5 - the burning of plants, however, one hundred percent effective.
6 - Tricks of the film does not reflect the truth and in fact the subject of remnants of war.

** Facts mine and suspicious objects:
1 - More than a third of patients of mine is cutting at least one limb.
2 - The cost of the removal of the mine far outweigh the cost of manufacturing.
3 - about 80% of mine victims are civilians, including innocent women and children.
4 - mines remain active (volatile) to decades of years.