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UN peacekeeper killed by IDF bomb from Second Lebanon War
By Reuters
Tags: Israel, Lebanon, UN

A Belgian peacekeeper was killed on Wednesday while clearing cluster bombs that Israel dropped on southern Lebanon during its 2006 war with Hezbollah guerrillas, witnesses said.

There are some 370 Belgian soldiers in the UN peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, that is helping the Lebanese army patrol a border zone in the south under a UN Security Council resolution mandate that ended the 34-day war.

The witnesses said a second Belgian peacekeeper was lightly wounded.
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The chief of public information for UNIFIL, Neeraj Singh, confirmed that a peacekeeper had died but would not disclose his nationality.

"A member of a UNIFIL explosive ordnance disposal team died from an explosion around midday today while carrying out an unexploded ordnance clearance recce mission in the vicinity of Aitaroun," he told Reuters.

An investigation was under way, he said.

Cluster bombs are fired from the air or ground in canisters which burst to release the bomblets.

The United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre says Israel dropped a "few million" cluster bombs on Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands of the bomblets failed to explode.

Israel says it uses cluster bombs in accordance with international law. More than 100 countries meeting in Ireland in May formally agreed to ban the use of cluster bombs under a draft treaty. But Israel has said it will go on using them.

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      2.   Raymond 18:09  |  Sam 03/09/08
      3.   Sam you`re ignorant, the IDF offered to it and was turned down 18:22  |  x-ray 03/09/08
      4.   Sam - Don`t forget who to start this.. Hezbollah, by 18:24  |  BF 03/09/08
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      6.   SAM Israel cleared up the explosives fired by Lebanon alone 18:25  |  PETER SM 03/09/08
      7.   A good job for captured IDF men 18:28  |  Natallie Durson 03/09/08
      8.   UN peacekeeper killed by bomb dropped by IDF in Second Lebanon Wa 18:28  |  Joe 03/09/08
      9.   #8 Joe 18:45  |  Raymond 03/09/08
      10.   Let hezbollah clean it up 19:00  |  Joey 03/09/08
      11.   bf 5 19:37  |  potobac 03/09/08
      12.   UN peacekeeper killed by bomb dropped by IDF in Second Lebanon Wa 20:11  |  Joe 03/09/08
      13.   Most of the Cluster bombs were dropped 20:37  |  Lee Kaplan 03/09/08
      14.   Israel should provide maps of the areas bombed 20:58  |  Maki 03/09/08
      15.   Cluster bombs in Georgia. 21:03  |  Maureen Ann 03/09/08
      16.   Why complain about cluster bombs? 21:34  |  Lou Medel 03/09/08
      17.   KEEPING THE "PEACE" 21:55  |  Brant 03/09/08
      18.   It Should Be Hezbollah Job To Clear Cluster Bombs 22:05  |  Joseph.E 03/09/08
      19.   Cluster bombs 22:47  |  fran?ois JADOUL 03/09/08
      20.   Joe from Belgium ask Nat Durson the War Mongerer 22:57  |  John 03/09/08
      21.   Lee Kaplan, try getting Russia there first as they kill millions 23:00  |  John 03/09/08
      22.   In accordance with international law 01:56  |  Anthony 04/09/08
      23.   #7 Natallie, ake a bow, then the jews wouldn`t be 02:15  |  lydia 04/09/08
      24.   Belgium was the first country to ban cluster bombs 03:07  |  Cedricvd 04/09/08
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