‘My wife thinks I will come home in a box’ – and three days later Gaza bomb disposal expert was dead

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Rahed Taysir al-Hom has died after a 500kg bomb he tried to defuse exploded.

The 43-year-old father of seven lies next to his brother, a Hamas fighter killed in an Israeli air strike two weeks ago. But the Hom who died on Wednesday was not a warrior. He was head of the sole bomb disposal unit of Gaza’s northern governorate and his job was to protect several hundred thousand people from the unexploded ordnance that now litters the streets, fields and rubble of many homes.

Hom, who died when a 500kg bomb he was trying to defuse exploded at 10.30am on Wednesday, was an incidental casualty of a month-long war that no one seems able to stop.

Three of his colleagues and two journalists were killed with him. He was well aware of the risks he was taking but believed in his work.

One day last week, while the last tenuous ceasefire held in Gaza, Hom received 70 calls. In this conflict alone, he had dealt with 400 “objects”.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/-sp-gaza-bomb-disposal-expert-bomb-dead

Wherever Israel invades it leaves behind land mines and or unexploded bombs for the children to find.

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1. Do munitions have right of return?

Maybe they should just slap a "return to sender" on them and leave them at the border.
Israel will probably be wanting to return them to the US as defective product anyway.