“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,”

Israeli commander: “We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon”
“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
Full story at Meron Rappaport in Haaretz
Quoting his battalion [...]

Cluster Bombs Attacked by Victims

Countries affected by cluster bombs most recently used in Lebanon met in Belgrade Tuesday for an international conference to push for a ban on the lethal weapons.
The first meeting to bring together most countries affected by cluster bombs aims at ensuring that a new treaty will include victims’ concerns.
“The rights and needs of [...]

Israelis airdrop an occupation

Simba Russeau, Electronic Lebanon, Aug 20, 2007

Near the border with Lebanon and Israel, a Lebanese wheat farmer struggles to harvest his crops since Israel fired cluster bombs throughout southern Lebanon during the end of last summer’s war, June 2007. (George Haddad)

BEIRUT, 17 August (IPS) - With an estimated one million unexploded land ordnances meaning lack [...]

Cluster Bombs: A Weapon out of Control - Human Rights Watch

Short film documenting the lethal effects of the use of cluster munitions worldwide, with commentary, new statistics and analysis from military experts at Human Rights Watch. Footage shows how cluster munitions have endangered civilian populations from the Vietnam era through current conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon. During the last THREE DAYS of the War on [...]

Israeli cluster bomb slays Lebanese woman

TYRE, Lebanon: A Lebanese woman was badly wounded in the South of the country on Friday in the explosion of a cluster bomblet dropped by Israeli forces during last summer’s war, police said. The woman, Abdeh Mohammad Khanafer, 70, was gathering herbs in a field at Aynata village near Bint Jbeil, six kilometers from the [...]

Pledge to seek cluster bomb ban

US forces have used cluster bombs in Afghanistan

Forty-six nations, including the UK, have pledged to work towards a new treaty banning cluster bombs.At the end of a two-day conference in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, the countries signed a declaration committing themselves to a ban.
They aim to prohibit by 2008 the use, production, transfer and stockpiling [...]

Chomsky: attack on Iran and the Lebanese deadlock

The following is an extract from a Chomsky interview.  I recommend reading the full text which can be found here - http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3999
Shank: How is the political deadlock in Lebanon impacting the U.S. government’s decision to potentially go to war with Iran? Is there a relationship at all?
Chomsky: There’s a relationship. I presume part of [...]

Israel ‘broke US arms deal terms’

 

Thousands of bomblets have been found across Lebanon

Israel probably violated the terms of its arms deals with Washington by using US-made cluster bombs in Lebanon last year, a US government report says.The state department looked into Israel’s use of cluster bombs in civilian areas of southern Lebanon during its conflict with Hezbollah.
US-made weapons are sold [...]