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/ 29 September 2006

Children face perils of bomblets in Lebanon

From a hospital bed, 14-year-old Hassan tells how half his foot was blasted away by one of the million bomblets that Israel rained on south Lebanon during its war with Hezbollah. "I ran across a small object hidden in the vegetation," the teenager says from his bed in the southern town of Nabatiyah, as he struggles to come to terms with how dramatically his life has been changed.