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Israel's sowing of land mines exposed

Whilst there is news overnight that some sort of truce has been declared between Israel and the Palestinians, this latest news, as reported in The Daily Star newspaper [in Lebanon] isn't going to help things in the on-going issues in the Middle East:

"The UN agency in charge of de-mining operations in South Lebanon has released the first evidence that the Israeli military planted a new crop of land mines during the July-August war, in addition to approximately 4 million cluster bombs spread by the Israeli military during the fighting.

The discovery came after a land-mine explosion Friday wounded two European de-mining experts and a Lebanese medic in the Southern village of Deir Mimas, 3 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border. A fourth de-miner was wounded in a second mine explosion at Deir Mimas the following day.

"This is the first evidence we have that the Israeli forces laid new mines in South Lebanon in 2006" declared the statement issued by the United Nations Mine Action Co-ordination Center in South Lebanon (UNMACC) over the weekend."

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