UN says Israel laid anti-personnel mines in Lebanon

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"The U.N. said on Tuesday Israel used anti-personnel landmines, banned by most countries, as well as cluster bombs during its July-August war in Lebanon.

It said four deminers, two British and a Bosnian were seriously wounded, and a Lebanese expert slightly hurt, at the weekend when they stepped on mines.

Israel is not among the 152 countries that have ratified the 1997 Ottawa pact banning the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel landmines, which activists say kill and maim long after conflicts have ended.

But it is a party to a protocol of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons, which requires they be placed within a demarcated area to ensure that civilians are not harmed.

The incidents near the village of Deir Mimas were the "first evidence we have that the Israeli forces laid new mines in south Lebanon in 2006," the United Nations Mine Action Co-ordination Centre South Lebanon (MACCSL) said."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28169926.htm

[madrchsod]

1. if they deem it necessary

then they should mine their land not another country`s. under what international laws do they claim that it is legal to do so?

[everythingsxen]

2. I would like a little more evidence...

that the mine wasn't put there by Hezbollah. Or that the Lebanese "expert" was not leading them into the mine to cause more trouble for Israel. The UN has a long history of turning a blind eye to every atrocity in the world except Israel defending itself, that is apparently the greatest crime in the known world.