Editor 's note : The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE , an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn , New York . VBS.TV is Vice 's broadband television network . The reports , which are produced solely by VICE , reflect a transparent approach to journalism , where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process . We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers . Lebanon 's southern border with Israel ( VBS.TV ) -- Deposited along Lebanon 's southern border with Israel are vast numbers of American-made cluster bombs buried beneath the grasses of the region 's valleys . Originally used by the Israeli military to combat Hezbollah forces firing rockets across the border , the bombs impacted in the soil were being ferreted out by a small U.N. team from the French battalion . Eddy Moretti , VBS 's creative director , and a small film crew donned camouflaged PPO -- protective personal equipment -- and tagged along on one of their minesweeping missions in October 2007 . We were brought first to an abandoned soccer field . Yellow rope was strung around the field and the surrounding forest , indicating areas that had already been cleared . One soldier stood over a patch of grass and a small pile of scrap metal . `` This morning , we started here at 6:00 . Two hours later , '' he said , pointing to a the yellow rope four feet farther into the forest , `` we are here . '' The team estimates that it has scanned about 18 percent of the area that the Israeli army blanketed in cluster bombs during the conflicts with Hezbollah . Every time a single bomb is launched , it releases dozens of submunitions that fall across the landscape , many of which fail to detonate and now cover about 12,500 square meters of the region . By the time we met up with the team , it had retrieved 53 submunitions . They believe that approximately 1 million of the parent bombs are hidden in Lebanon 's southern valleys alone . Procedurally , the task is daunting : Inch by inch , they push forward , chopping the long grasses with garden shears to increase ground visibility and then running over the area slowly with minesweepers . The minesweepers are handheld devices that look like typical metal detectors , emitting a variety of high-pitched whines that vary depending on the density of the ground . This day , the team pushed on together slowly , sensitive to each of the various frequencies and graciously telling us as soon as they found something . By the end of the afternoon , they had unearthed a single submunition -- not a bad haul by any stretch . It was a 155-millimeter explosive about the size of a fist . This represents just one of 88 submunitions that are held inside each American-made cluster bomb . The team detonated the explosive , surrounding it with sandbags and standing a safe distance away . After the explosion , Eddy surveyed a large hunk of detonated submunition : `` Two lives saved ? '' The French U.N. team leader nodded . `` Yes , two lives . Or two legs . '' See more of this story at VBS.TV .
Bombs buried in the ground along Lebanon 's southern border with Israel were taken out . Small ##er ##s from the French battalion assigned to remove cluster bombs . Team says it 's been about 80 percent of the area blanketed in cluster bombs .