MAG’s work in southern Lebanon was featured in an article in today’s Daily Star, the pan-Middle East English language newspaper and website.
“Deminers clearing Israeli-dropped cluster bombs in South Lebanon are turning up an average of 10 new sites per month, while Israel continues to ignore requests for data that would assist clearing the estimated one million unexploded bomblets, which continue to kill and maim civilians and decimate rural livelihoods. A single cluster bomb can disperse hundreds of bomblets.
“'All these weapons systems are computerized and grid references are entered before the bombs drop. Not receiving the cluster-bomb strike data from the Israelis remains our biggest obstacle to clearance,' Dalya Farran, a spokeswoman for the UN Mine Action Coordination Center for South Lebanon (MACC), told IRIN.
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“At the Zawtar West site, 12 kilometers southwest of provincial capital Nabatieh, Lebanese deminers from MAG painstakingly work their way through 70,000 square meters of farmland, cutting back precious olive trees in their search for bomblets…”
» Click here to read the full article at The Daily Star website [Please note: the article’s reference to MAG (Mines Advisory Group) as the 'Mine Action Group' is a typing error]
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| MAG's Mine Action Team 'MAT 3' at work in Zawtar West [photo: Angela Catlin] |
Links:
» More on MAG's work in Lebanon
» Tackling the lethal legacy of conflict - photo gallery
24 January 08
