Ahmad Mustafa’s hands are trembling. Standing in the middle of an olive grove in the village of Kfarmelki, he holds out a row of his own disfigured fingers – memories from a cluster bomb that tore through his body after the 2006 Lebanon War.

‘During my recovery in hospital, I heard about a lot of accidents happening,’ he tells Metro, just metres away from where a large ‘demining site’ sign has been propped up in the ground.

‘Many children were maimed or killed by cluster munitions. So this was my motivation to get better and to go back on the ground.’

Now, nearly two decades later, he is still in the field, combing through earth and rubble for the same kind of explosive that nearly killed him at the age of 21.

The work of people like Ahmad, a field operations manager with the Mines Adv

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