| 12/06/2008 A Lebanese man was martyred on Thursday by a dropped landmine by Israeli forces during the 2006 war against Lebanon, a police official said.
Hisham el-Ghossein, 36, was martyred in the village of Qantara, near the southern town of Marjayoun, after stepping on the mine while working in his field, the official said.
The munitions dropped by Israel during its war against Lebanon in July-August 2006 included at least a million cluster bomblets, according to the United Nations. Unexploded ordnance has martyred or injured 257 people since the conflict ended in August 2006, according to the UN Mine Action Coordination Centre (MACC). Of those martyred, at least 30 were civilians.
Cluster munitions spread bomblets over a wide area from a single container. The bomblets often do not explode on impact, but can do so later at the slightest touch, making them as deadly as anti-personnel landmines. | 
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