They may take years, decades even, to be cleared, preventing the safe return of populations. Yet even after the guns have fallen silent, displacement can continue for years, as homes and infrastructure are destroyed and landmines, improvised, unexploded and abandoned explosive devices litter residential areas. It then usually falls to local communities to help those who have been displaced while they may themselves be suffering from the effects of conflict. People are often forced to flee their homes, overturning their lives and exposing themselves to greater risks, such as sexual and gender-based violence, as they lose their livelihoods and support networks. They significantly affect civilians, causing deaths, injuries and trauma.Īs neighbourhoods become front lines, the basics of life - water, food, health care, jobs, education, decent accommodation – suddenly become hard to find. Heavy explosive weapons, such as large bombs, missiles, rockets, mortars and artillery shells, are more likely to hit the military target, but their wide, inaccurate and all too often indiscriminate blast areas take down everything around them too. In urban centres, civilians and military objectives are often found in the same areas. #GenevaConventions /IXfby2lgtz- ICRC April 9, 2022 This is the reality when explosive weapons are used in cities. Unfortunately, digital warfare looks set to become the new normal in the years ahead. Sieges, tunnels, booby traps and snipers now meet drones and digital warfare in a new form of protracted urban conflict. Images in recent years – from Aleppo, Mosul and Sana'a to Marawi, Mogadishu, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Mariupol – confirm that towns and cities will remain primary battlegrounds in future armed conflicts. Join our community to reduce the human cost of urban warfareĬities have featured as the centerstage for violence since humans began building them. The northern governorate has witnessed several episodes of violence since 2006 that left behind immense destruction. © Karrar AL-MOAYYAD / ICRC A group of children play football against a backdrop of destroyed houses.
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