Women in Lebanon are busy these days with demining stuff. Nearly seven women are clearing about one million cluster of bombs sprinkled across the south because of the 2006 Israeli offensive.
These seven women have been selected from 30 applicants who have had applied for the job, selected by a Swedish demining team.
A few of the women left their earlier jobs to join the foreign teams helping in demining areas across southern Lebanon.
There are nearly 100,000 bomblets in the region and about 1.2 million clusters have been anticipated across southern Lebanon.
Israel had launched a land, sea and air offensive into Lebanon after the Lebanese Shia militant movement Hezbollah snatched two Israeli soldiers during a cross-border attack. The war ended in mid-August with an UN-sponsored ceasefire and these clusters of bombs are the aftermath of that attack.
The newly hired women de-miners are mainly Shia Muslims from southern Lebanon.
