Golan Heights<\/a>, the ministry stated.<\/p>\n“As part of a multi-year national clearance program, INMAA has cleared more than 6,700 dunams [6.7 square kilometers] of mined and UXO [unexploded ordnance]-contaminated land across Israel over the past year alone,” the ministry wrote.<\/p>\n
These minesweeping operations aim to free territory for “civilian use, commerce, and industry,” the ministry said.<\/p>\n
The X post did not elaborate on the timeframe in which the landmines were detonated.<\/p>\n
Defense Ministry publishes video of sappers detonating landmines<\/p>\n
The ministry shared a picture of a sign at Ein Mokesh (Mine Spring), as well as footage of minesweepers preparing the explosives in order to clear minefields.<\/p>\n
The footage then shows the INMAA staff setting off explosions.<\/p>\n
The Golan Heights and other areas of the border between Israel and Syria were, at one time, among the heaviest-mined regions of the world.<\/p>\n
In 2023, INMAA chief Sharon Hadad said that Israel had cleared 33,000 dunams of mines over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israel National Mine Action Authority (INMAA) cleared 700 landmines near Syria, continuing efforts to reclaim mined areas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[6310,669,37,12600,95,28819],"class_list":{"0":"post-86250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-defense-ministry","9":"tag-golan-heights","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-landmines","12":"tag-syria","13":"tag-syrian-border"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116478196092116248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}