Explosives clearance enables aid to reach victims of war in Gaza

FILE - People walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, on April 16, 2024. Rubble throughout Gaza is probably contaminated with unexploded ordnance, say landmine and explosives experts at a U.N. conference in Geneva on May 1, 2024. FILE - A drone view shows landmines in the desert left over from the Iraq-Iran war, at the Shatt al-Arab border region with Iran, in Basra, Iraq, April 2, 2024.

More than 800 mine action leaders attending a U.N.-sponsored conference in Geneva this week are warning of the ongoing dangers from unexploded ordnance and landmines in countries affected by conflict.