They wear a UN blue helmet... And clean up the mess made by other a'holes
In this case a US made M-77 cluster bomblet, fired by a US made Lockheed Martin M-270 MLRS fired by the Israeli's at a field near Ajt Arun, about 15 kilometer from Tibnin, Lebanon.
It was only one of 4 million sub munitions dropped by Israel during the last big 3 day conflict...
To put that in perspective : the US dropped 2 million of them in 3 weeks during the 2003 Iraq invasion...You can take Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo... put all the used cluster ammo together, and you'de still not get close to the 4 million dropped on Lebanon in those 3 days...
with a dud rate of anywhere between 1 or 5 % ( depending on if Israel had early model M77's or late), you do the maths on how many of em are left in the fields.
Sure, the arms agreement with Israel prohibited them from using it against non military targets... i guess they forgot about that..It's not like they would intentionally forget such a clause in the agreement... would they? surely Israel always does what it says it will do?
Stefaan Vanpeteghem (35), was that hero , he lived just a mile or 2 away from my house...worked for Dovo, the Belgian military's Bomb squad, taking care of unexploded WW1 and WW2 ammo... and now sent to Lebanon to clean up the aformentioned mess... He's the 4th one to die there.. He was trained for M-77 bomblets, yet this one just exploded when he took his first look at the thing.
The school year for Lisa (7) en Sara (8), didn't get off to a good start.