UN: Clearing Lebanon cluster bombs will take over a year

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From Ha'aretz:

Up to a million unexploded cluster bombs from Israel's war with Hezbollah are now the biggest threat to civilians in south Lebanon, where they litter streets, homes and orchards, UN agencies said on Tuesday.

Fourteen people have been killed and 90 wounded by unexploded ordnance since the end of the war in mid-August, with all the fatalities and most of the injuries caused by cluster munitions, the UN Mine Action Coordination Center said.

So far, the Lebanese Army, United Nations peacekeepers, the UN Mine Action Coordination Center and its contractors have cleared almost 40,000 unexploded cluster bombs, but up to a million more remain.

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Clark said Israel had also yet to provide detailed information on the amounts of cluster bombs fired or the coordinates of the strikes, which would help munitions clearance teams identify the main areas on which to focus their efforts.

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PB

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1. Make Israel pick up every one