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Explosives cleared from an old Syrian military position in the Golan Heights that is now open to the public in a photo published on September 29, 2025. (Defense Ministry)
September 29, 2025, 2:29 pm
Former Syrian base in Golan to open for visitors for 1st time after being de-mined
Visitors will be able to tour Ein Almin, view munitions and take part in mock mine-detection activity after over 600 explosive devices and old weapons cleared from area
By Stav Levaton
Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, with his siblings from left to right, Sakina, 8, Nahla, 9, and Aya, 5, at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, April 9, 2025. (Ghaith Alsayed/AP)
April 20, 2025, 12:05 pm
‘There were days I didn’t want to live anymore’: Land mine horrors persist in Syria
Watchdog finds that since 14-year civil war ended in December with fall of Assad, munitions have killed 249 people, including 60 children, and injured 379
By GHAITH ALSAYED and Sally Abou Aljoud
Illustrative: A warning sign of a mine field near the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights, August 20, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
August 21, 2023, 1:20 pm
Man lightly hurt in blast during landmine clearing operation on Jordan border
IDF says engineering vehicle damaged while driving over old mine near Sha’ar HaGolan
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli troops are seen carrying a wounded soldier on the border with Lebanon after an old mine exploded, March 21, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter)
March 21, 2023, 6:02 pm
Two soldiers hurt in explosion of old mine on Lebanon border
Military says incident not an attack, occurred during routine engineering work along northern frontier; one hurt moderately, one lightly
By Emanuel Fabian
Anastasiia Minchukova attends a demining training near the town of Peja on April 25, 2022. (Photo by AFP)
April 28, 2022, 10:31 am
‘Not afraid’: Ukraine women learn to demine in Kosovo
Trainees anticipate ‘decades’ of clearing mines in their home country following Russian invasion
By Ismet Hajdari
Defense Minister Benny Gantz seen during a visit on the Israel-Lebanon border, northern Israel, on November 17, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
November 17, 2020, 1:30 pm
Israel finds explosives planted on Syrian border; Gantz holds Damascus to blame
Defense minister warns army ready to respond to any incident, won’t ignore bombs uncovered, disarmed in Israeli-controlled buffer zone on southern Golan Heights
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative photo of a minefield in northern Israel (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 10, 2020, 5:20 pm
Lebanon fires cause mine detonations along the Israeli border
No casualties reported; regional heatwave leads to blazes throughout Middle East, including in Syria, where two people are killed
By AP and ToI Staff
A man searches for mines near the site of Qasr al Yahud, the place where Jesus is believed to have been baptized, near the West Bank town of Jericho, on December 9, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 12, 2020, 10:44 am
Just in time for Easter: Jordan River baptismal site is mine-free after 53 years
‘It was like walking into a time capsule, with beer still on the shelf, the tables still laid for dinner,’ says head of UK group who oversaw project at Qasr al-Yahud
By Melanie Lidman
In this Sept. 18, 2019 photo, a Lebanese deminer from Humanity and Inclusion, a French-based international non-governmental organization, uses a mine detector at a cedar forest, in Hadath El-Jebbeh, north Lebanon (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
September 28, 2019, 3:27 pm
Lebanese clear wartime mines from famed cedar forests
Decades of internal fighting as well as war with Israel have left woodlands strewn with hundreds of thousands of deadly bombs
By Bassam Mroue
Iraqi mine clearers working for Halo Trust, a non-profit organization specialized in mine removal, scan an agricultural area on August 25, 2019 near Iraq's Baiji, an oil-rich region ravaged by fighting against the Islamic State group (IS) in 2014. (SABAH ARAR / AFP)
September 3, 2019, 8:40 am
In Iraq’s Baiji, mines turn farms into killing fields
Though Islamic State terror group has been cleared out of area, booby-trapped orchards and homes continue to claim lives
By Maya Gebeily
Ornate and colorful frescoes are mostly intact despite the decades of neglect in the Romanian Monastery, the last church building in the Land of the Monasteries to be cleared of landmines, in a photo released by the Ministry of Defense on June 20, 2019. (courtesy Ministry of Defense)
June 20, 2019, 2:49 pm
Stunning Romanian church is final monastery cleared of mines at Qasr al-Yahud
Six months of work still remaining at Christian pilgrimage site until area is deemed landmine-free
By Melanie Lidman
The IDF Combat Engineering Corps released photos on May 26, 2019, showing the simultaneous detonation of 900 landmines during demining work at the Land of the Monasteries near Jericho. (IDF)
May 27, 2019, 4:21 pm
900 landmines detonated in Qasr al Yahud on the Jordan River
IDF Combat Engineering and NGO Halo Trust are in the process of demining 6,500 landmines from church compounds near Jericho
By Melanie Lidman
File: A Jordanian deminer uses a detector to clear a minefield in the northern Jordanian- Syrian border area, near Ramtha city, June 28, 2011 (AP Photo/Nader Daoud)
February 15, 2019, 8:16 am
Mine blasts kill farmer, 3 security personnel in Jordan near Israeli border
Security source says investigation underway to clarify if deadly ordnance dates back to conflicts with Jewish state
By AFP
A man searches for mines near the site of Qasr al Yahud, the place where Jesus is believed to have been baptized, near the West Bank town of Jericho, on December 9, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 10, 2018, 4:28 am
More than 1,500 landmines cleared at Jesus baptism site on Jordan River
After years of negotiation, 22 sappers clear mines from land of first 3 of 7 churches; goal is to clear all 6,500 mines and open area to the public by January 2020
By Melanie Lidman
A Defense Ministry unit detonates mines near the Karnei Shomron settlement in the northern West Bank. (Screen capture/Defense Ministry)
April 3, 2018, 7:33 pm
Defense Ministry clears minefield near settlement, pledges new housing on site
Detonation of buried bombs near Karnei Shomron part of broader project to blow up some 2,200 landmines across West Bank, ostensibly making way for more building
By Jacob Magid
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