Explosive Weapons Monitor

We’re horrified to hear reports that three children have been killed in Kyiv after an airstrike hit a residential building overnight.

A home should be a safe haven, not a target.

No child should ever have to experience this.

Explosive weapons contributed to food insecurity in at least nine countries and territories in 2024, affecting civilians’ ability to access and produce food, according to #InsecurityInsight.

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2/2 #InsecurityInsight recorded incidents affecting aid operations and workers in 16 countries and territories - 90% of which occurred in Palestine.

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1/2 #Explosiveweapons were used in at least 1,631 attacks affecting humanitarian aid operations, aid workers and camps in 2024 - nearly five times more than the previous year. #EWIPA

The use of #explosiveweapons by armed forces of 28 states caused harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure in 30 countries and territories in 2024. #EWIPA

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2/2 The highest numbers of incidents affecting schools and teachers were recorded by #InsecurityInsight in Ukraine, Palestine and Myanmar. 

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1/2 The use of #explosiveweapons in attacks on education more than doubled in 2024 with at least 861 incidents recorded in 22 countries and territories by #InsecurityInsight.

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2/2 About 90% of all incidents affecting health facilities, workers and ambulances were recorded by @InsecurityInsig in Lebanon, Myanmar, Palestine and Ukraine.

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1/2 The use of #explosiveweapons in attacks on healthcare increased by 64% in 2024 with incidents recorded in 26 countries and territories by #InsecurityInsight

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2/2 About 90% of all incidents affecting health facilities, workers and ambulances were recorded by @InsecurityInsig in Lebanon, Myanmar, Palestine and Ukraine.

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2/2 About 90% of all incidents affecting health facilities, workers and ambulances were recorded by @InsecurityInsig in Lebanon, Myanmar, Palestine and Ukraine. 

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Almost two-thirds of all civilian deaths globally from explosive weapons in 2024 occurred in Palestine where civilians continued to be killed at a high rate following a year of unprecedented civilian death and injury in 2023. #EWIPA

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📢 Bruk av eksplosive våpen mot sivilbefolkning og sivil infrastruktur nådde et alarmerende høyt nivå i 2024, viser siste utgave av Explosive Weapons Monitor. Minst 74 land og områder ble rammet, og rapporten peker på både statlige og ikke-statlige aktører.

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📢 Der neue @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social (mitverantw. durch HI) zeichnet ein düsteres Bild: 2024 wurden in 74 Ländern und Gebieten weltweit Zivilist*innen durch den Einsatz von Explosivwaffen in bevölkerten Gebieten #EWIPA getötet, verletzt oder wichtige zivile Infrastruktur zerstört.
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It remains a critical humanitarian priority to bring the #EWIPA Declaration into effect to prevent and reduce harm to civilians, finds @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social #EWM2024.

To do so, states should endorse and implement the Declaration and avoid the use of #EWIPA.

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@WeaponsMonitor finds alarming levels of civilian harm from the use of explosive weapons in 2024, with harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure occurring in at least 74 countries and territories.

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🔔 New Report! Explosive Weapons Monitor 2024

This report takes stock of harm to civilians from the use of explosive weapons across the globe in 2024 and identifies state and non-state actors reportedly responsible for this use.

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3/4 @alma_osta of @HI_Advocacy examines the impact of #EWIPA on healthcare access and underscores the need for coordinated advocacy, innovative healthcare solutions, and sustainable funding to address them.

2/4 @WeaponsMonitor explores the use of air- and ground-launched explosive weapons by Israeli armed forces in densely populated areas in Lebanon, in response to rocket fire from Hezbollah and other armed groups, since 7 Oct. 2023.

📢 1/4 Vol. 3, Issue 1 of Fragments: Explosive Weapons Monitor Quarterly is out now!

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1/6 Today marks two years of conflict in #Sudan where civilians continue to bear the brunt.

The indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas has further exacerbated the humanitarian crisis, leading to destruction of civilian infrastructure and provision of essential services.

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🔔 NOW UPDATED! STATE POSITIONS

Explosive Weapons Monitor tracks state positions on the use of #EWIPA and the Political Declaration.

Read more in the state profiles updated through 31 December 2024 ➡️ explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/state-position

5/5 Read “I Am Still Alive” from Fragments Vol. 2, Issue 4 here ⬇️ explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/fragments/vo...

4/5 “The planes and missiles ripped away all my dreams and possessions, but they could not take away my passion and love for drawing. I have been drawing every day, and I still do, sending a message that challenges death, destruction, and the machinery of killing.”

3/5 “Like many others, I have been displaced from Gaza City to the far south for the fifteenth time, moving between the city’s narrow spaces in an attempt to survive the massacre, searching for lost safety and escaping death.

I lost everything I owned.”

2/5 “The occupation destroyed everything beautiful in my small city, leaving things trapped in a disfigured memory beneath the rubble.”

1/5 Maisara Baroud, a visual artist living in Gaza, has used art as a way to document the war as he experiences it.

Every day he draws, frequently posting his art on social media, to reassure his friends that he is still alive.

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