Four children in Syria die or are injured by mines and weapons every day • TV4 News on site
13-year-old Zain Yousef jumps into the room on one leg and arm close to the body. His left hand is in bandage and they have recently taken skins from the leg, to use on the hand, and it hurts. But he still smiles big when he shows us his drawings.
– I can’t go to school right now because of my hand. I do as best I can here at home, he says.
“I would go over to my friends”
Zain is one of the many children affected by the undetected weapons and bombs that came to the surface after the dictator Bashar Al Assad’s fall on December 8 last year. When people have started to return to the villages bombed for 13 years, they find cluster bombs, mines and rockets.
In the regime -controlled areas, weapons, hand grenades and the like that the fleeing regime soldiers have left behind them in roads and fields. According to UNICEF, four children die per day because of this right now.
Zain lives near the coastal city of Tartus and has been spared the war, but has been hit by the aftermath.
– I would just go over to my friends and play football. On the way there I saw something like a pen with a hook. I picked it up and then it exploded in my hand.
His mother Rania Yousef heard the explosion and ran out of the apartment.
– Somehow I realized that it was Zain who was affected. When I arrived, I saw him lying on the ground. It was full of blood and I just screamed.
Dreaming of getting back hand again
Zain was rushed to the hospital and since then he has, with the help of UNICEF, received help with several surgeries and physiotherapy. But several of Fingarnara are gone forever, because of part of a hand grenade he picked up.
– I dream of getting my hand back again but I know it’s gone forever, he says.
The need to clear Syria from undetone is huge, especially in the areas bombed by the regime. The Vita helmets organization has received thousands of calls in recent months. Most often it is about cluster bombs in the racial masses, but at least 155 minutes have also been found that need to be departed.
– The bombs and the split are scattered everywhere. This is our main job to save souls and help people. We will continue to do this to Syria is clean from these cluster bombs and are safe again, says Yasin Al Yasin, from the white helmets.