The explosive engineering teams of Gaza’s interior ministry are continuing to diffuse and safely dispose of explosive remnants left by the Israeli army following the ceasefire agreement, Al Jazeera reports.

An Anadolu reporter identified items left by the Israeli army, including unexploded munitions like artillery shells, grenades, exploded ordnance and the remains of weapons.

Speaking to Anadolu, Mohammad Meqdad, head of the explosive engineering division, said that since the start of the ceasefire, the division “carried out 170 missions to identify and remove unexploded ordnance in residential areas of Rafah city” in the southern Gaza Strip.

He added that the division’s teams first locate unexploded munitions in homes and residential areas, carry out initial inspections, and then either safely dispose of them on-site or remove them to be dismantled in safe areas far from residential areas.

Meqdad, however, noted that a severe lack of proper equipment — including protective vests, helmets and equipment to lift heavy weights — was impeding their work.