OUTLOOK: Legacy of War in Lebanon still lethal

by Actual News Geezer | September 18, 2006 at 06:18 am

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This article published today in The Independent looks into the daily slaughter caused by more than a million "bomblets" dropped by Israel in the final days of the war. For more on landmines and other related issues, please see ClearPath International.

Lebanese villagers must risk death in fields 'flooded' with more than a million Israeli cluster bombs - or leave crops to rot

The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more.

The casualty figures will rise sharply in the next month as villagers begin the harvest, picking olives from trees whose leaves and branches hide bombs that explode at the smallest movement. Lebanon's farmers are caught in a deadly dilemma: to risk the harvest, or to leave the produce on which they depend to rot in the fields.