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51 Human Rights Watch February 2008
Salimah Barakat, a 65-year-old tobacco farmer in Yohmor, stayed in her home during the war to care for her disabled son and daughter. She told Human Rights Watch that she heard cluster munitions falling throughout the night during the last four to five days of the war, though she received no warning of an impending attack. When the ceasefire commenced on August 14, Barakat finally emerged from hiding to begin clearing the path to her home, trying to remove the large rocks so her blind daughter could safely walk around the house. She remembers moving a large rock blocking the stairs down to her home when a submunition exploded; she later learned that she had accidentally hit an unexploded dud. The explosion sent her to the hospital for shrapnel wounds to her chest, lower abdomen, and right arm. She has returned to work in her tobacco field and olive groves, which as of October 2006 remained littered with cluster submunitions. 147 During its visit, Human Rights Watch found an M77 submunition and several ribbons in the backyard of her downtown home. Unlike Barakat, the Hattab family left during the war, returning to their home in the center of Habboush at 9:30 a.m. on August 14. Musa Hussein Hattab, 33, and several family members began to clean the space adjacent to his house when Musa picked up a submunition that exploded, killing him and his 13-year-old-nephew, Hedi Muhammad Hattab. The blast injured four other family members, including Àli Hattab, 46, who remained in the hospital until late October, and his brother Ibrahim Hattab, 38, who had three operations to repair his right leg. 148 The doctors estimated it would be another year before Ibrahim Hattab would be able to resume work. MACC SL reported 45 civilian casualties like these in the first week following the ceasefire, as civilians returned home. 149 Simple efforts to rebuild and construct a home, however, continued to threaten civilians even after late August. On September 12, with clearance efforts well underway, Raghda Idriss returned home and began removing the rubble that fell into her olive grove next to her home on the outskirts of Baràchit. 150 In the course of her cleaning, she tossed a rock aside that hit a 147 Human Rights Watch interview with Salimah Barakat, farmer, Yohmor, October 26, 2006. 148 Human Rights Watch interviews with Hassan Àbbas Hattab, mukhtar, Habboush, and Ibrahim Hattab, Habboush, October 25, 2006. 149 Human Rights Watch interview with Chris Clark, program manager, MACC SL, Tyre, September 14, 2006. 150 Human Rights Watch interview with daughter of Raghda Idriss, Baràchit, October 24, 2006. Flooding South Lebanon 52
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Lebanon Flooding South Lebanon Isra
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Civilian Harm......................
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Acronyms BLU CBU CCW COI DPICM ICRC
Page 8 and 9: Summary The Israel Defense Forces (
Page 10 and 11: Israel’s strikes in 2006 were the
Page 12 and 13: leaving behind vast numbers of haza
Page 14 and 15: compensate for the cluster rockets
Page 16 and 17: immediately before a negotiated cea
Page 18 and 19: knowingly or recklessly indiscrimin
Page 20 and 21: production, transfer and stockpilin
Page 22 and 23: numerous men, women, and children w
Page 24 and 25: To the Secretary-General of the Uni
Page 26 and 27: Cluster Munitions and International
Page 28 and 29: At least 14 states and a small numb
Page 30 and 31: • Refraining from launching attac
Page 32 and 33: This does not just mean immediate c
Page 34 and 35: Israel is a major producer and expo
Page 36 and 37: Types of Cluster Munitions and Subm
Page 38 and 39: An unexploded M77, a US-made dual p
Page 40 and 41: This CBU-58B cluster bomb casing, s
Page 42 and 43: likely that the MZD-2s found in Leb
Page 44 and 45: contaminated by submunitions. 89 Ho
Page 46 and 47: Timing and Targets: When and How Cl
Page 48 and 49: with 500-pound bombs. The increase
Page 50 and 51: Human Rights Watch field research c
Page 52 and 53: percent, and dismissed the problem
Page 54 and 55: A UNIFIL deminer holds an Israeli-m
Page 56 and 57: Civilian Harm Cluster munitions hav
Page 60 and 61: submunition causing it to explode.
Page 62 and 63: Dr. Àbdel Nasser Farran told Human
Page 64 and 65: Agriculture Perhaps the most danger
Page 66 and 67: exploded, and a young woman was pic
Page 68 and 69: from the war. 180 Tragedy struck wh
Page 70 and 71: injured in my legs. I still can’t
Page 72 and 73: in operation for many years, includ
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Page 78 and 79: the grove of fruit trees. Though sh
Page 80 and 81: of the fighting. Although no one is
Page 82 and 83: oad to visit his cousin when his br
Page 84 and 85: Four-year-old Àli Muhammad Yaghi w
Page 86 and 87: place.” 237 Assessing the monetar
Page 88 and 89: especially because we needed to irr
Page 90 and 91: conflict interrupted existing clear
Page 92 and 93: An engine from a US-made M26 Multip
Page 94 and 95: duds around villages. 268 With the
Page 96 and 97: Various reasons exist as to why com
Page 98 and 99: Lack of Israeli Assistance Perhaps
Page 100 and 101: checkpoints. Similarly, UNIFIL has
Page 102 and 103: Israel’s Statements on the Use of
Page 104 and 105: This statement followed the finding
Page 106 and 107: investigations into Israel’s appa
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that would confirm that these weapo
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specific to the weapons. When conce
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disregard of that character, they g
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employed, the way that they were us
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are antipersonnel, area denial weap
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emain to take care of elderly or si
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early 2007 aimed at identifying the
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the United States, there is little
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Conclusion Israel’s use of cluste
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kidnapped IDF soldiers, and so aver
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Proportionality A further legal req
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In practice, this requires that the
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neutralization offers a definite mi
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it is more brutal. If Hizbullah had
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Another issue of humanitarian conce
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Acknowledgements This report was wr
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