LEBANON: Tyre fisherman wounded when bomb exploded underwater

Fisherman Mohammad Jaffal was wounded on Sunday (September 10) when a bomb exploded while he was trying to untangle his net underwater along the Lebanese coastline in the south of the country. Jaffal was brought to Jabal Amel hospital in Tyre by his brother, his hand and eye badly wounded. "The net got stuck in the sea so he went down to untangle it from the rocks. There was a cluster bomb and it exploded underwater. He lost his hand. We brought him to the hospital," Ali Jaffal, the brother of the wounded fisherman, said. Fishermen in Tyre just started going back to the sea on Saturday (September 9), after Israel lifted its sea blockade of Lebanon on Friday (September 8) handing control of the Lebanese coastline to an international naval task force. The fields and areas around the villages of the south are littered with bombs, making many farmers too scared to tend to their crops. The deminers from the Mine Action Group (MAG) estimated that thirty percent of all ordinance fired, launched or dropped during the war failed to explode. Two Lebanese soldiers were killed on Wednesday (September 6) when they tried to defuse Israeli landmines in southern Lebanon. The United Nations has confirmed nearly 400 Israeli cluster bomb strikes across south Lebanon and says the bomblets have killed

ITN Source | September 11, 2006

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