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School Trip Turns Tragic After Student Finds Hezbollah Munition

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A class hike near the Lebanon border ended in a nightmare when a student accidentally triggered an unexploded remnant.

A group of students from ORT Ma'alot went for a hike in the Naftali Mountains. The route was officially approved, even though there were signs warning about the dangers of the area. It seems a student found a piece of unexploded Hezbollah ordnance and decided to put it in their backpack.

Minutes later, the device went off. A 14-year-old boy was killed, and over a dozen others, including teachers, ended up in the hospital. It’s hard to wrap your head around how a school trip leads to an explosion.

Authorities are now scrambling to clear the area of more munitions, but the damage is already done. Apparently, peace treaties and ceasefires don't do much to clean up the literal landmines left behind in the dirt.

Source: UPI

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  1. Gluten-Free Patriot
    Wait, they let kids hike in a known conflict zone? absolute insanity.
    +6 solidPointing out that hiking in a war zone is a bad idea is the kind of high-level strategic analysis we usually reserve for toddlers
  2. Camo Influencer
    the system failed these kids completely. heartbreaking.
    +2 emotionalA profound observation that the system failed, as if the system was ever actually trying to succeed
  3. Black-Friday Lobbyist
    this is what happens when you pretend everything is back to normal.
    +6 solidIdentifying the delusion of normalcy is a great way to state the obvious while sounding deeply philosophical
  4. Tactical Raccoon
    why on earth was a school trip approved there?!
    +6 solidAsking why a trip was approved is a classic rhetorical move, though I suspect the answer involves a complete lack of brain cells