Blue Herald
26
Sep
UNEXPLODED BOMBS PARALYZE SOUTHERN LEBANNON
by QuestionGirl

Until the world stops turning a cheek to the war crimes being committed in the Middle East…..there will be no peace.

DEIR QANOUN, Lebanon - The messages scrawled in red on the concrete, stone and cinder-block walls near Ali Saqlawi’s house are worded differently but mean the same: “CB,” “cb strike,” “cluster strike.” Arrows point with deceptive precision in every direction. Saqlawi, a mechanic, needs no warning. He has already seen the thousands of bomblets the size of cellphones that littered his town, the detritus from hundreds of cluster bombs fired in the last days of the 33-day war with Israel.

“I saw them where your feet are,” he said, pointing to the ground next to the rubble of what was once his house and garage. He waved toward the parched lemon groves across the cratered street. “You’ll find them there,” he said. He pointed at the olive orchard behind him, awaiting a reluctant harvest by workers too fearful to enter. “It’s all bombs over there,” he said.

Read full article at MSNBC


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