Page 6 news (in a 10 page paper)

Two headlines:
De-Mining Team Clears 87,000 square meters of land
and
Israel Buying Safer Bomblets to Avoid Repeat of Casualties during Lebanon War*

"...The de-mining team handed over 87,00 square meters of arable lands to their owners in the Marjayoun area after three months of mine clearing operations." There was a ceremony, with the Canadian Ambassador. Apparently Canada had sponsored this bit of de-mining. The article said that "4,596 mines planted by Israeli forces were cleared... Since the 2006 war with Israel 195 civilians have been wounded from unexploded munitions and 20 killed." (these numbers are higher in the other article)

The other article said that "The Israeli army is stocking up on self-destruct cluster bombs ... The army has reduced its purchases of U.S.-made cluster bombs, instead buying Israel-made M-85 cluster bombs, which contain a mechanism to destroy themselves if they fail to explode immediately on impact, according to the report. Cluster munitions spread bomblets over a wide area from a single container."

"The United Nations estimates that a million cluster bombs were dropped on Lebanon by Israel between July 12 and August 14 in 2006 in the conflict with Hizbullah. About 40 percent of these did not explode on impact and are spread among villages and orchards in south of Lebanon.
According to a U.N. report in June, at least 38 people have been killed and 217 wounded by bomblets exploding since the end of the fighting."

"In May, delegates from 111 countries agreed a landmark treaty in Dublin to ban the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions by its signatories. However, the agreement lacked the backing of major producers and stockpilers including Israel, China, India, Pakistan, Russia and the United States."

* is this good news?