[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: "Israel's unexploded ordnance endangers Jordan Valley residents"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Here's another place where technologies developed for domestic range  
clearance could make a big difference. - LS]

Israel's unexploded ordnance endangers Jordan Valley residents

by Ahmad Melhem
Al-Monitor (DC)
December 3, 2014

RAMALLAH, West Bank - On Nov. 23, Ahmed al-Sheikh from the village of  
Bardala in the occupied Jordan Valley, near the Jordan River, was  
killed by an exploding mine left behind by the Israeli army following  
military maneuvers in the region. Sheikh was the head a family of  
five, his youngest son being only 5 years old.

Mahmoud Saleh Sawaftah (Abu Saed), the head of Bardala's village  
council in Area C, told Al-Monitor that Sheikh was a shepherd and  
died of head and chest wounds when the mine detonated while he was  
trying to bury it, fearing for the safety of the children and other  
shepherds in the region.

The Israeli army holds periodic military exercises in the Jordan  
Valley involving the use of warplanes and live ammunition.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/12/israeli-uxo-jordan- 
valley-deaths.html#

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