{"id":26406,"date":"2025-01-05T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26406"},"modified":"2025-01-05T08:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T08:53:52","slug":"over-500-afghan-children-killed-injured-by-explosive-remnants-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/01\/over-500-afghan-children-killed-injured-by-explosive-remnants-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 500 Afghan children killed, injured by explosive remnants in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan has said that over 500 children were killed or injured in 2024, due to landmines and unexploded ordnance left behind from the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Sunday, January 5th, UNICEF reported that in the past year, they provided education on the dangers of unexploded ordnance to three million children.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan is one of the most heavily contaminated countries in the world by remnants of war, and civilians, particularly children, continue to be its victims.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) had stated that more than 1,000 square kilometers of Afghan territory are contaminated with war remnants, including landmines.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan has said that over 500 children were killed or injured in 2024, due to landmines and unexploded ordnance left behind from the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":91,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26408,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406\/revisions\/26408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}