Idlib- Heba was not a bare, you know that she would wear the protective shield to be one of the workers in removing the waste of war, after she spent years guiding people to prevent them.
However, with the emergence of the great danger to mines after the liberation of Syria from the previous regime, its spread everywhere and caused by many deaths and cases of amputation and distortions, especially children, the gift of the process of removing these waste despite the seriousness of this task.
Heba Kadah, 29, says that she started an awareness volunteer from the remnants of the war, its effects and its damages in field campaigns on the areas of seam lines with the previous regime, and in schools, camps and areas that were bombed, especially by internationally prohibited cluster bombs.
Because of its disasters
She adds to Al -Jazeera Net, that a large and real catastrophe caused by the remnants of the war after the people returned to their towns and their lands, and still harvested the lives of hundreds of them, and frightening them from death or amputation, which is what prompted them to participate in removing them and nullifying them.
She explained that the greatest danger of waste affects the children who tamper with it without realizing its seriousness, which leads to its explosion and thus their killing or their harm is great.
Heba Begin – as she says – underwent extensive courses in dealing with the remnants of the war, how serious and types, and how to remove them properly, in addition to following the safety protocols, and still training on Arab and foreign specialists to develop their skills more.
And you see that her work is not limited to men, and that everyone is men and women in front of the responsibility for restoring security and peace to the country, and that they should all seek to protect the population and children from death, which requires them – men and women – to work to restore reassurance and safety and sow joy in the eyes of children, she said.
Disguise
He pushed her more to move forward towards this work, that children who were aware of their awareness of the war remnants. And she says, “This is why I have been confident without hesitation, although the work of the war remnants in Syria is very dangerous, due to the diversity of unexploded munitions, including what is internationally forbidden, and the difficulty of dealing with these ammunition.”
She says that the war does not end with the end of the fighting between two parties, and that the resulting effects are the most dangerous on the population, especially the warships that are hidden or unclear, such as those used by the previous regime and its supporters, as they appeared in the form of games, stones or mines planted inside the furniture of the houses and their devices such as the refrigerator and washing machine, or even clear such as missile or artillery shells.
The gift of the countries of the world appealed to the provision of technical and logistical support to help get rid of the remnants of the war that killed many of those who left the displacement camps and returned to their lands and villages that have witnessed violent fighting in the past years.
She noted that the danger of these waste lies in the way of dealing with it who do not know about it, its type and the size of its danger, warning against approaching, touching, or dealing with any foreign body, and called for informing the engineering teams and specialists to remove them.
Need and density
In turn, he says Ahmed Al -Jadou, which is A team leader of the International Organization concerned with mine removal Halo TrustThey started removing the remnants of the war for about a year and a half. But after the liberation of Syria, the work was doubled due to the heavy spread of the waste, which prompted women to volunteer and work in this very dangerous field.
He adds to Al -Jazeera Net, that the gift of a bidding and others volunteered within his team in light of the urgent need to remove the waste, and what encouraged them to do this wrong task, their work years in raising awareness of war remnants.
These teams specialized in removing the remnants of war, men or women, underwent extensive training and at a high level of foreign, Arab and local experts, and trained in the field and on the ground within very cautious measures, “because the first mistake is the last and the person costs his life,” according to Al -Jadou.
Although 6 months have passed since the liberation and the end of the war, the danger of its waste is continuing and large, and led to the killing of dozens, including children, and hundreds, most of whom were amputated or distorted, according to Al -Jadou, who explained that the waste is widely spread in the areas of the existence of the former regime forces or those that were constantly bombing.
Prohibited waste
For his part, the non -explosive ammunition official in the Syrian Civil Defense, Muhammad Sami Al -Muhammad, said that they had responded since November 26, 2024 until March 31, 2025, for 69 explosions of war waste, killing 72 people, including 17 children, 7 women and 48 men, and 108 others were injured, 33 children and 4 women.
He pointed out that millions of civilians in Syria live in “infested” areas of mines and unexploded ammunition, as a result of 14 years of bombing the Assad regime and Russia.
The remnants of the war – according to the official, Muhammad, also pose a major threat to the lives of the population, and a long -term time, and directly affects the stability of civilians, education and agriculture, and the lives of future generations, especially children, for their ignorance of what these ammunition is, their forms and their danger to their lives.
He concluded by saying that the civil defense teams provided awareness to civilians, and, since the beginning of their work, have been able to remove more than 28,000 ammunition of war remnants, including more than 23 thousand cluster bombs. While the ammunition teams in the Syrian Civil Defense documented the use of the Assad regime and Russia more than 70 species of various ammunition in killing civilians, of which 13 species of internationally prohibited cluster bombs.