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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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