Cluster bombs injure 5 in Lebanon

Source: AP, 25-12-2006
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Cluster bombs injured five people in southern Lebanon over the weekend, the latest casualties from ordnance left over from a summer war launched by "Israel", officials said Monday.
In the southern port city of Tyre, three men were being treated for wounds from a cluster bomb explosion on Sunday, said Dr. Jawad Najem, the owner of Najem Hospital. He did not say what caused the bomb to detonate. Officials said two other people were injured in a village near Nabatiyeh when a cluster bomb exploded.
At least 28 people have died in cluster bomb and land mine explosions in Lebanon since "Israel's" war with Lebanon ended in a U.N.-brokered cease-fire on Aug. 14.
The rights group Amnesty International and U.N. human rights experts have accused "Israel" of deliberately targeting civilian areas and indiscriminate use of cluster bombs during the July-August war. The groups allege "Israel" laid mines and dropped as many as 4 million cluster bombs on Lebanon.
Cluster bombs scatter scores of tiny explosives over an area the size of a football field and many of the small bombs failed to explode, in effect littering Lebanon with thousands of small land mines. U.N. ordnance clearing experts have said that up to 1 million cluster bombs failed to explode and continue to threaten civilians.