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• YemisrachBA - Jul 23 2007 | People, Film, Conflict, Humanitarian

  A great video illustrating how cluster bombs not only have put lives at risk, but the livelyhood of Lebanese. For many Lebanese in southern Lebanon a normal life remains a distant reality.

  Quoted: In July 2006, war reared its ugly head once more in Lebanon when Hezbollah fighters stole across the border and kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.

  Israel’s response was immediate and furious. Huge amounts of ordnance were dropped on southern Lebanon leaving village after village in ruins. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets into civilian areas of northern Israel. But the cruelest legacy of the conflict was the widespread use of cluster bombs by Israel – an estimated one million of which now sit unexploded on the ground, lying in wait for the unsuspecting. Ninety percent of them were dropped in the last 72 hours of the conflict when the ceasefire was imminent. Children in particular are at risk.