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UN warns that children are particularly vulnerable but Abdelkarim, 10, still wants to help his family, even though he is “scared one could blow up”.
Metres away, a younger child walks unsteadily, an empty missile in his arms, on his way to throw it on a heap of scrap metal.
On a break, Malik and two other children rest inside a rusty old truck, clutching empty mortar shells in their hands.
Malik’s father Hassan Jneid, 37, runs the scrapyard in Syria’s last major rebel bastion of Idlib with his brothers.
“Weapons of war that used to bombard people have now become a means to make a living,” said the father of four near the town of Maaret Misrin in Idlib province.
More than four years ago, Jneid, his brothers and their families came to the area after they were forced to flee regime bombardment on their hometown of Latamneh in Hama province further south.
