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Thread #92618   Message #1792390
Posted By: Peace
25-Jul-06 - 02:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
Subject: RE: BS: Gaza Strip 28/9 June 2006
I have to ask: Is your last name First?

Also, if the Israelis are using WP against civilians, the people who gave the order for their use deserve to be tried for crimes against humanity.

"NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - A U.S.-based human rights group accused Israel on Monday of using artillery-fired cluster grenades against a Lebanese village last week during its assault against Hizbollah.

Human Rights Watch said it had taken photos of cluster grenades stored by Israeli artillery teams on the Israel-Lebanon border and that a cluster grenade attack on Wednesday killed one and wounded at least 12 civilians in the village of Blida.

"Cluster munitions are unacceptably inaccurate and unreliable weapons when used around civilians," Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said in a statement. "They should never be used in populated areas."

Israeli officials in the United States were not immediately available for comment.

Human Rights Watch said it had photographed M483A1 artillery shells stored on the Israeli side of the border, which deliver 88 cluster submunitions per shell and have a failure rate of 14 percent, often leaving behind dangerous unexploded shells.

It said it believes the use of cluster grenades in populated areas could violate a ban on indiscriminate attacks contained in international humanitarian law.

"Our research in Iraq and Kosovo shows that cluster munitions cannot be used in populated areas without huge loss of civilian life," Roth said. "Israel must stop using cluster bombs in Lebanon at once."

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Notice, however, that the article says 'indiscriminate attacks' are a violation of international law. Hezbollah's rockets fall in the same category. Look at both sides, Hugo.