A family of American tourists sparked pandemonium at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday when they tried to pass through security with an unexploded shell they had found while touring the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The device, presumably a remnant of fighting with Syria in 1967 or 1973, is one of many incidents of unexploded ordnance discovered in a region where locals know to use caution whenever straying from known paths.
Mine clearing operations are ongoing at many places along the war-torn Israeli, Syrian and Lebanese borders. And in January, the Israeli military detonated hundreds of munitions from a Syrian arms bunker abandoned after the 1967 war and recently discovered in the Golan.The clearing of explosives is part of Israel’s efforts to promote population growth and tourism in the area of rich valleys and open fields.
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