Hezbollah Used Cluster Bombs, Group Asserts
A rights group reported for the first time that Hezbollah fighters fired cluster bombs at civilian areas in northern Israel during this summer’s war, although the number of such strikes was a fraction of those Israel made on Lebanon with the same munitions.
Human Rights Watch said three Israeli civilians were injured in July when cluster munitions landed between three homes in the Galilee village of Maghar.
The New York-based group and the United Nations have accused Israel of firing as many as 4 million cluster bomblets into Lebanon.
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