Dr. `Abdel Nasser Farran told <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> that Hassan was suffering from a shrapnel wound caused by a piece that entered at the waist and exited through the stomach. 157 It shredded his intestines and damaged his liver and stomach. He was in critical condition when <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> saw him. Sukna had shrapnel injuries to her liver and other light wounds to her body. Marwa had minor leg injuries and was released from the hospital a few days later. In late August, <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> researchers returned to Blida, which Israel attacked with clusters on July 19. `Abbas Yousif `Abbas, a 6-year-old boy, was injured on August 30, suffering shrapnel wounds to the stomach, bladder, left lung, and right hand. He said that he was on the road in front of a friend’s house when another friend picked up a submunition and threw it, and it exploded. “It looked like a perfume bottle,” he said. 158 Despite education efforts, many children remained unaware of the danger of submunitions into the fall of 2006. In Halta, Rami `Ali Hassan Shebli, 12, died on October 22 when he picked up a submunition while playing with his brother, Khodr, 14. Khodr, who suffered shrapnel wounds as a result of the incident, sat on a tree branch outside of his neighbor’s home, dropping pinecones on his brother on the ground below. Rami picked up something to throw back at his brother. When a witness noticed that Rami had picked up a submunition and yelled at him to put it down, Rami raised his hand to throw it away. The dud exploded when his hand was behind his ear. 159 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> arrived in Halta several hours after the incident and saw the Lebanese Army destroy about 15 unexploded cluster duds in a backyard next to the village in the course of an hour. 157 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> interview with Dr. `Abdel Nasser Farran, Jabal Amel Hospital, Tyre, August 18, 2006. 158 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> interview with `Abbas Yousif `Abbas, Najdeh Sha`biyyah Hospital, Nabatiyah, August 30, 2006. 159 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> interview with witness (name withheld), Halta, October 22, 2006. 55 <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> February 2008
Two men collect the final remains of 12-year-old Rami `Ali Hassan Shebli, who was killed by a DPICM submunition in Halta on October 22, 2006. Rami unwittingly picked up the submunition while playing with his brother only a couple hours before this picture was taken. © 2006 Bonnie Docherty/<strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Watch</strong> <strong>Flooding</strong> <strong>South</strong> <strong>Lebanon</strong> 56
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kidnapped IDF soldiers, and so aver
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Acknowledgements This report was wr