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Israeli landmines threaten Golan people
Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:56PM
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Residents of the Israeli occupied Golan Heights live under the fear of Israeli landmines that threat the lives of the civilians in the area, Press TV reports.


On Saturday, a landmine went off in a village on the Golan Heights, but no casualties were reported.

A Golan resident told Press TV that landmines are not a new thing in their life and they have got used to them.

“To the Israeli authority, we have no right to demand anything and they force us to sign papers to prove that,” he added.

Israel planted new landmines in the UN-monitored buffer zone of the Golan Heights bordering Lebanon following a deadly incident on May 15, 2011, in which Israeli soldiers killed at least 13 pro-Palestinian protesters during a demonstration against the Israeli occupation.

May 15, known as Nakba Day, marks the anniversary of the occupation of Palestine by the Israeli army and the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948.

Israel annexed the Syrian territory on the strategically important Golan Heights on December 14, 1981.

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