A Hizbullah member martyred by leftover ordnance

Source: Daily Star, 21-12-2006
NABATIYEH: A Lebanese man was killed and two others were wounded in the Nabatiyeh region in Southern Lebanon late Tuesday when unexploded ordnance left behind by "Israeli" forces during the July-August war blew up, the National News Agency (NNA) said. The deceased man, Ali Adnan Milhem, was a Hizbullah fighter, the group said in a statement Wednesday. The NNA reports said a land mine killed Milhem, but the resistance described the ordnance as a cluster bomblet that had failed to explode on impact during the war.
Milhem, 20, was the son of a Hizbullah fighter who was killed in fighting against "Israeli" troops in South Lebanon in 1987, Hizbullah said.
The names of the two wounded men were not available.
The United Nations and human rights groups have accused "Israel" of laying mines and dropping as many as 4 million cluster bombs on Lebanon during the summer war. UN ordnance-clearing experts have said that up to 1 million cluster bombs failed to explode.
In a separate incident, three men - identified as Wissam Tabaja, 35, Mohammed Yassin, 37, and Maarouf Wahbe, 36 - were wounded in two cluster bomb explosions in the southern town of Marjayoun on Wednesday, security officials said.
Last week, two Lebanese soldiers were killed in an explosion in Southern Lebanon while they were trying to dismantle a land mine left behind by "Israeli" troops.
At least 28 people have died in cluster-bomb and land mine explosions in Lebanon since the 34-day war ended on August 14 following a UN-brokered cease-fire.
The South is riddled with land mines laid earlier by retreating "Israeli" soldiers on their pullout from the region in 2000 after an 22-year occupation.