BETHLEHEM (PIC)– Israel has been refusing to clear a minefield in the village of Husan west of Bethlehem for decades the village’s municipal council chairman Jamal Sabatin said.
He told Quds Press on Saturday that the minefield which was planted in 1950 had killed six citizens and seriously wounded 15 others who had their limbs amputated.
Sabatin said that the American society “Roots of Peace” had set up a plan on Friday to remove those mines but the plan was pending Israeli approval charging that Israel has been adamantly refusing all plans to demine that field.
He said that international reports indicated that hundreds of thousands of mines were planted by the Israeli forces in various Palestinian areas.
