TYRE , Lebanon ( CNN ) -- Diab Diab lost an eye and part of a leg trying to clear unexploded bombs from the fields of southern Lebanon . But now he is going to lose his job , too . Despite the dangers of clearing mines , Diab Diab wants to continue his work . For though there are possibly thousands of unexploded bombs and shells littering the landscape , the money for cleanup operations has disappeared in the global recession . Diab knows the dangers all too well , but said he wants to continue working for British specialist clearance company BACTEC . `` It 's hard to lose one 's job -- despite the risks and the dangers you run , you get used to it , '' he said . Countries such as the United States , Saudi Arabia , the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates all pledged to help Lebanon clear the landmines , cluster bombs and other unexploded ordnance left by Israeli forces as they withdrew from their conflict with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 . More than $ 43 million in international donations has been spent so far on clearing the region . Britain and the Netherlands have been the largest single donors , each giving more than $ 5 million . The United States gave $ 2 million soon after the conflict and Saudi Arabia 's contributions are now at $ 1.5 million , a report by the United Nations Mine Action Service shows . But with the economic crisis sweeping around the globe , some of the donor cash has dried up , and BACTEC , which had been responsible for a quarter of the clearing work , has to shut down its operations in Lebanon . There are some areas that BACTEC operations manager Johan Hann can mark as `` cleared '' on a map in his office . Elsewhere , the map shows areas that have not been touched and a vast swath of land where no one knows what lies in the ground . Watch mom cry for her daughter , maimed by a bomb » . Cluster bombs leave huge craters but also spread bomblets over a wide area . Not all the bomblets will necessarily detonate on impact , and those that do not explode are left , like ticking time bombs in the ground . The United Nations Mine Action Service says Israel has provided no information as to where bombs were dropped . Nor has Israel contributed to the funding for the U.N.-led mine clearance effort . Land has to be cleared field by field , section by section and yard by yard . A piece of red and white tape fluttering across a piece of land shows how far Hann 's team got before they had to stop . Mohammed Cheaito looks to the other side of the tape , to the land that he should be farming but that could be full of hidden danger . `` If they are going to stop now , it means we will stop planting and working , too ; we ca n't get to our land anymore , '' he said . `` Of course , I am upset . They 're supposed to finish their work so we can walk freely and cultivate our land in order to make a living . '' But the risks of straying onto uncleared land are all too obvious . At least 328 people have been killed or wounded by bombs left in the soil of the region that borders Israel . One of them is Naimah Ghazi , who stepped on a cluster bomb in her garden in 2007 and lost half a leg . She used to provide for her family by farming tobacco , but now she spends most of her day sitting in the very garden that hid the weapon that injured her . Her mother , Khadija , finds it almost unbearable to look at her . `` I cry so much I can barely see with my eyes . I cry when I look at the state my daughter is in , '' the 86-year-old wails . Phone calls asking for jobs are still coming in to BACTEC 's offices , Hann said , even as the mine clearers pack up their tents and climb into their trucks for the last time . They leave behind thousands of acres of land around the villages that they have n't been able to check and an untold number of bombs , perhaps still waiting for a victim .
Bomb disposal teams leave Lebanon as funding dries up in economic crisis . Hundreds of unexploded bombs litter landscape around British villages . Thousands have been killed , hurt by deadly remnants of 2007 Lebanon -Hezbollah conflict .