Young Lebanese Killed by Israeli Cluster Bomb
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - An 18-year-old boy was killed Saturday when an Israeli cluster bomb exploded in Hasbaya, south of Lebanon.
Hisham Abdel-Al, a young shepherd, was working on a farm in the Hallat village when he stepped on a cluster bomb, dying instantly, Daily Star reported.
Israel dropped some 4 million cluster bombs in Lebanon during the July-August 2006 war, most during the last 48 hours of the conflict, according to the United Nations.
Hundreds have been wounded in cluster-bomb related incidents since 2000 and 2006.
The Army’s Lebanon Mine Action Center along with the UN and other international organizations have been working since 2006 to remove the deadly ordinance from the south.
