Southerners risk life and limb to work bomb-laden lands
With hundreds of sites occupying ordnance-clearing teams, anxious farmers brave hazards in order to feed their families
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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For weeks Ali Nasser waited for the bomb-disposal team. But the arrival of spring left him no choice but to go to his fields, sown with hundreds of unexploded cluster bombs by the Israeli military last year. The alternative is to lose the tobacco crop which provides the means of feeding his 11 children each year.
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