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Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian appears on the Daily Briefing podcast with host Jessica Steinberg (Courtesy)
October 14, 2026, 1:32 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 14 – IDF, police, Education Ministry spar over deadly school trip blast
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian on funding for new Apache gunships, the ongoing question of who’s responsible for unexploded ordnance, and an air force probe into a UFO
By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian
Israeli security and rescue forces evacuate injured people near the site where suspected unexploded ordnance detonated during a school trip, killing a teenage student and injuring 19 others near Kibbutz Yiftah in the Ramim Ridge area, close to the Israeli border with Lebanon, October 12, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
October 13, 2026, 5:00 pm
Deadly blast on school trip exposes lurking explosive threat after years of war
Despite concerns around unexploded ordnance left across country after missiles stopped flying, questions remain over who’s responsible for clearance and whether public awareness has been sufficiently raised
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli security and rescue forces evacuate injured people near the site where unexploded ordnance detonated during a school trip, near Kibbutz Yiftah in the Ramim Ridge area, close to the Israeli border with Lebanon, October 12, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
October 13, 2026, 2:51 pm
Students made tourniquets out of belts, socks after ordnance exploded during hike
Father instructed his son over video call on how to stop bleeding after deadly blast on school trip near Lebanon border; MDA says 15-year-old provided CPR to wounded classmate
By ToI Staff
Elazar Yair Wilensky, killed in an explosion near the Lebanon border on October 12, 2026. (Courtesy)
October 13, 2026, 10:01 am
Student killed in blast near Lebanon border ID’d as 9th grader Elazar Yair Wilensky
More than a dozen hospitalized, five kids in serious condition, as Education Ministry says the route it approved didn’t cross into restricted area, group may have gone off-trail
By ToI Staff and Diana Bletter
Israeli security and rescue forces evacuate injured people near the site of a deadly explosion of an unexploded Hezbollah ordnance during a school hike in the Ramim Ridge area in northern Israel, close to the border with Lebanon, October 12, 2026. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
October 12, 2026, 7:40 pm
Teen killed, 24 injured by Hezbollah munition found on hike near Lebanon border
Students, teachers from ORT Ma’alot school injured after teen picks up previously unexploded ordnance, sparking detonation; two boys in serious condition, others moderately or lightly hurt
By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton and Lazar Berman
Members of a bomb disposal unit, Dieter Schwaetzler, left, and Rene Bennert sit next to 1.8 ton World War II bomb after defusing it in Frankfurt, Germany, September 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
August 22, 2026, 10:16 am
Amid European wildfires, buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII resurface
Fires, fueled by climate change, are uncovering, exposing, and in some cases exploding, long-buried munitions across the continent, posing a threat to crews responding to flames
By Sam McNeil
Route 90, Jordan Valley, October 18, 2025. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
February 17, 2026, 4:39 pm
IDF says Palestinian child killed in West Bank while playing with unexploded ordnance
Palestinian Red Crescent says 13-year-old killed by ‘mine’; army says ammunition exploded as kids handled it in shooting range, troops treated two others hurt in incident
By Emanuel Fabian and AFP
Syrian children play on an damaged tank in Homs, on December 20, 2024. (Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP)
January 14, 2025, 4:10 pm
Unexploded ordnance in Syria killing children at ‘alarming’ rate, UN warns
Over 100 kids killed or injured in last month, UNICEF reports, as explosives litter country after almost 14 years of civil war; tens of millions of dollars needed to clear them
By AFP
An unexploded shell found along the light rail route under construction in Jerusalem, September 19, 2023. (Israel Police)
September 19, 2023, 2:26 pm
2 unexploded shells found during Jerusalem light rail construction
Origin of decades-old 90-millimeter mortars unclear; capital most recently scene of battle during 1967 Six Day War, 1948 Independence War
By Michael Horovitz
A view of Lublin, Poland. (YouTube screenshot)
August 12, 2023, 5:50 am
Thousands evacuated after builder uncovers a WWII bomb in a Polish town
Some 14,000 moved out in Lublin to allow military experts to take away unexploded ordnance
By AP
Hundreds of pieces of ordnance that were abandoned in a Syrian bunker following the 1967 Six Day War are detonated in a controlled explosion on January 2, 2021. (Defense Ministry)
January 2, 2022, 2:39 pm
Defense Ministry detonates Syrian munitions from decades-old Golan Heights bunker
National mine-clearing organization found the various bombs in an underground bunker in November, decided to blow them up for safety instead of moving them
By Judah Ari Gross
Firefighters, police officers and railway employees stand on a railway site in Munich, Germany, December 1, 2021. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
December 1, 2021, 4:43 pm
World War II-era bomb explodes in Munich, wounding four
German authorities say one of those hurt is in serious condition; blast disrupts train service at busy station
By AP
An explosive shell dating back to World War I uncovered at a building site in Ganei Tikva in central Israel, November 15, 2021. (Israel Police)
November 15, 2021, 8:18 pm
Unexploded World War I-era shell discovered at building site in central Israel
British munition said to have contained ‘active explosives’ detonated by police sappers in controlled explosion
By ToI Staff
The area of Jaffa Port where a missile was discovered, September 30, 2021 (Israel Police)
September 30, 2021, 2:19 pm
Diver finds missile under the water near Jaffa Port
Police seal off area as sappers called in
By ToI Staff
A handout photo from police shows an unexploded bazooka round discovered at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem on August 1, 2021. (Israel Police)
August 1, 2021, 5:11 pm
Unexploded bazookas found at site of Six Day War battle in Jerusalem
Police sappers safely remove pair of shells likely used by Jordanian forces during some of the fiercest fighting of 1967 conflict
By Emanuel Fabian
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