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Explosive Weapons Monitor

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A civil society initiative that conducts research and analysis on harms from and practices of explosive weapon use in populated areas for the International Network for Explosive Weapons.

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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The use of #EWIPA had severe consequences for water systems in 2025. Insecurity Insight recorded 87 incidents in which #explosiveweapons damaged water infrastructure and affected civilian access to safe drinking water in 15 countries and territories. ➡️ bit.ly/EWM-2025
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The use of #explosiveweapons in attacks affecting aid operations, workers and camps increased by 52% in 2025, to 2,541 incidents recorded by Insecurity Insight. ➡️ bit.ly/EWM-2025
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Explore the report's data and view country-specific analysis in a new interactive dashboard: ➡️ explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/global-figur...
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🔔 NEW REPORT Civilians around the world continued to experience severe harm from the use of explosive weapons in 2025, as widespread bombing and shelling extended a three-year pattern of elevated harm. ➡️ bit.ly/EWM-2025
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🔔 NOW UPDATED! STATE PROFILES @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social tracks state positions on the use of #EWIPA and the Political Declaration. Read more in state profiles updated with statements through 31 December 2025: explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/state-positi...
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
📢 Vol. 3, Issue 3 of Fragments: Explosive Weapons Monitor Quarterly is out now. Read here: bit.ly/4uEc0tB
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📢 Vol. 3, Issue 2 of Fragments: Explosive Weapons Monitor Quarterly is out now! Read here: bit.ly/4ajmO78
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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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.
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
2/2 #InsecurityInsight recorded incidents affecting aid operations and workers in 16 countries and territories - 90% of which occurred in Palestine. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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 ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
2/2 The highest numbers of incidents affecting schools and teachers were recorded by #InsecurityInsight in Ukraine, Palestine and Myanmar.  ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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. #EWIPA @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
2/2 About 90% of all incidents affecting health facilities, workers and ambulances were recorded by @InsecurityInsig in Lebanon, Myanmar, Palestine and Ukraine. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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 #EWIPA
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
2/2 About 90% of all incidents affecting health facilities, workers and ambulances were recorded by @InsecurityInsig in Lebanon, Myanmar, Palestine and Ukraine. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
2/2 About 90% of all incidents affecting health facilities, workers and ambulances were recorded by @InsecurityInsig in Lebanon, Myanmar, Palestine and Ukraine.  ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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 ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu
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Norsk Folkehjelp @norskfolkehjelp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
📢 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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Handicap International e.V. @hi-deutschland.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
📢 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. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024
Ein Mädchen mit amputierten Bein sitzt auf Polstern am Boden und lehnt gegen eine Wand. Sie schaut ernst.
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@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. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu #InsecurityInsight
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🔔 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. ➡️ bit.ly/ewm2024 @ec.europa.eu #InsecurityInsight
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
4/4 Join the Explosive Weapons Monitor mailing list to receive research and updates, including Fragments and data bulletins: explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/about/subscr...
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The Explosive Weapons Monitor is a civil society initiative that conducts research and analysis on harms from and practices of explosive weapon use in populated areas for the International Network on ...
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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.
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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.
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📢 1/4 Vol. 3, Issue 1 of Fragments: Explosive Weapons Monitor Quarterly is out now! bit.ly/4iZpaua
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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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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INEW @explosiveweapon.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
📢 INEW is looking for a Global Campaign Lead! If you are motivated by the prospect of leading an international network of NGOs that work to prevent human suffering from the use of #EWIPA, read the job description here and apply by April 11 ➡️ www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/article...
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Apply now for Global Campaign Lead. , £60,000 - £65,000 per year, find a career with meaning today
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🔔 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
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
5/5 Read “I Am Still Alive” from Fragments Vol. 2, Issue 4 here ⬇️ explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/fragments/vo...
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The Explosive Weapons Monitor is a civil society initiative that conducts research and analysis on harms from and practices of explosive weapon use in populated areas for the International Network on ...
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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.”
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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.”
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
2/5 “The occupation destroyed everything beautiful in my small city, leaving things trapped in a disfigured memory beneath the rubble.”
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
5/5 Join the Explosive Weapons Monitor mailing list to receive research and updates, including Fragments and data bulletins: explosiveweaponsmonitor.org/about/subscr...
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The Explosive Weapons Monitor is a civil society initiative that conducts research and analysis on harms from and practices of explosive weapon use in populated areas for the International Network on ...
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
4/5 Rowena De Silva shares the open-source investigative methods of @airwars.bsky.social used in their recent investigation of IDF strike footage in Gaza, where more than 400 civilians were likely killed in just 17 strikes.
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
3/5 Maisara Baroud, a visual artist living in Gaza, has used his art to document his experience of the war - a daily exercise of humanity, perseverance and documentation. This article shares some of his 500 artworks published alongside a letter to the reader, penned by Baroud.
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
2/5 Kaya Nadesan of @explosiveweapon.bsky.social shares testimonies of civilians under bombardment in Gaza. These stories help contextualise casualty figures, underscore the reality of this data and highlight the human impact of bombing and shelling in densely populated areas.
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Explosive Weapons Monitor @weaponsmonitor.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📢 1/5 Vol. 2, Issue 4 of Fragments: Explosive Weapons Monitor Quarterly is out now! This issue shares the impacts on civilians of #EWIPA during nearly 500 days of conflict in Gaza, including life-changing injuries, devastating losses and destroyed civilian infrastructure. ➡️ bit.ly/41aa3Hz
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