1m Israeli cluster bombs in Lebanon

Saturday, 6 October 2007
Press TV

A cluster bomb dropped by Israeli forces during last year's attack on Lebanon has exploded, killing a Lebanese man, police have said.

Abdallah Fuani, 45, was killed instantly when he stepped on the bomb near his house in the southern village of Kounine Friday, police say.

Accorging to official UN figures, at least 37 people have been killed by unexploded ordnance and 217 wounded since the conflict ended in August.

The UN Mine Action Co-ordination Centre had earlier condemned the Zionist regime for not cooperating in a full and impartial investigation into its use of such munitions during last summer's conflict.

The organization also says Israel refused to help prevent further civilian casualties by providing maps of the areas of Lebanon into which they had fired cluster bombs.

The munitions dropped by the Zionist Regime in the Lebanon war last year included at least a million cluster bombs, 90 percent of which were dropped in the last 72 hours of the war when a ceasefire was in sight, according to the United Nations.