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Casualties and Victim Assistance
Casualties
Casualties in 2009
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Casualties in 2009 |
2 (2008: 2) |
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Casualties by outcome |
2 injured (2008: 1 killed;1 injured) |
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Casualties by device type |
2 antipersonnel mines |
At least two mine casualties, from two separate incidents, were reported in 2009; both were adult men who were injured. One was a Thai national.[1] In 2008 two explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties were identified.[2]
Casualties continued to occur in 2010. In February, two children (one boy and one girl) were injured by a landmine when a family unknowingly entered a snow covered military area in the Golan Heights.[3]
Seven mine/ERW casualties were recorded in Israel between 1999 and the end of 2009.[4]
Victim Assistance
The total number of mine/ERW survivors in Israel is not known. Mine/ERW survivors are not treated differently from other persons with disabilities. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services is responsible for disability issues.[5] “Victims of hostile activities,” including mine survivors, are entitled to benefits, rehabilitation, and grants under the Benefits for Victims of Hostilities Law of 1970.[6] The two children injured in February 2010 were evacuated via helicopter by an emergency medical response team and treated at Rambam hospital.[7]
Israel signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 30 March 2007 but had not yet ratified it as of June 2010.
[1] “Went to pick up mushrooms and stepped on a landmine,” Local, 1 March 2009, www.local.co.il; Sharon Roffe-Ofir, “Rescue gone awry: Man falls to death from medevac,” Ynetnews (Tel Aviv), 11 March 2009, www.ynetnews.com; and Eli Ashkenazi, “Man hurt in minefield dies after falling off rescue helicopter,” Haaretz, 11 March 2009, www.haaretz.com.
[2] Fadi Edayat, “11-year-old killed by unexploded IDF ordinance near Ramat Hovav,” Haaretz, 24 May 2008, www.haaretz.com.
[3] Initial reports of this incident reported five casualties but it was later determined that only two of the five sustained injuries. Email from Dhyan Or, Israel Country Program Manager, Survivor Corps, 1 June 2010; “11-year old seriously hurt in Golan land mine blast,” Haaretz, 6 February 2010, www.haaretz.com; and “5 hurt as mine explodes in Golan Heights,” Jerusalem Post, 6 February 2010, www.jpost.com.
[4] These were identified as: 2 in 2009; 2 in 2008; 2 in 2007; and 1 in 2000.
[5] See Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, www.molsa.gov.il; and US Department of State, “2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Israel and the occupied territories,” Washington, DC, 11 March 2010.
[6] Telephone interview with Meir Handelsman, Director, International Cooperation Department, Yad Sarah, 6 August 2008.
[7] “11-year old seriously hurt in Golan land mine blast,” Haaretz, 6 February 2010, www.haaretz.com.
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