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injured in my legs. I still can’t walk. The shrapnel tore through muscle and tendons. 188 The gathering of scrap metal for income also caused casualties. Fifteen-year-old Àli Muhammad Jawad had just returned from the hospital when Human Rights Watch visited his home in al-Hallousiyyeh. From his bed, he described how on October 17, 2006, around 4 p.m., he spent the afternoon picking up pieces of shrapnel and metal with his cousin Hamdid Àli Jawad, 18, to sell for 1,000 or 1,500 Lebanese pounds (the equivalent of 66 cents or $1) per kilo. Hamdid found something unusual on the ground, marked by a painted red stick that he used to poke at the item. Àli stood two to three meters away from Hamdid when the cluster exploded, killing Hamdid and injuring Àli. 189 The ambulance was slow in coming; Àli’s family speculates that if it had arrived earlier, they might have been able to save Hamdid. Àli remained bedridden and did not know when he would be able to return to his job as a blacksmith’s apprentice. Case Studies The following three case studies are highlighted because they represent a special circumstance (Tebnine) or egregious examples of the types of civilian harm discussed above (Yohmor and the Zawtars). Tebnine On Sunday, August 13, 2006, Israeli forces struck Tebnine Hospital with cluster munitions. Approximately 375 civilians and military noncombatants, including medical staff, patients, and people who had sought refuge, were in the hospital during the attack. Because “this whole area was infested with cluster bombs,” the civilians were trapped in the hospital until a path was cleared to allow them to escape. 190 The hospital is a very large, multistory, multi-wing complex that has been 188 Human Rights Watch interview with Hussein Àli Kiki, construction worker, Èin Baàl, September 22, 2006. When asked whether Hezbollah had been firing rockets from the fields, he said, “The field I was in at the time I got injured did not have launching pads. However, fields next to it did. At the beginning, the Israelis were firing most of the clusters on places where there were rocket launchers. But after that, they started throwing them everywhere.” Ibid. 189 Human Rights Watch interview with Àli Muhammad Jawad, al-Hallousiyyeh, October 21, 2006. 190 Human Rights Watch interview with Dr. Ahmed Hussein Dbouk, Tebnine Hospital, Tebnine, October 24, 2006. 63 Human Rights Watch February 2008
An Israeli cluster munition caused damage to the Tebnine Hospital in an attack on August 13, 2006. Hundreds of Israelimanufactured M85 submunitions were removed from the roof, parking lot, and streets in front of the hospital. The damage was still visible on August 18, 2006. © 2006 Marc Garlasco/Human Rights Watch Flooding South Lebanon 64
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Acronyms BLU CBU CCW COI DPICM ICRC
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Summary The Israel Defense Forces (
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Israel’s strikes in 2006 were the
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leaving behind vast numbers of haza
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compensate for the cluster rockets
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immediately before a negotiated cea
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knowingly or recklessly indiscrimin
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Page 42 and 43: likely that the MZD-2s found in Leb
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Page 48 and 49: with 500-pound bombs. The increase
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Page 52 and 53: percent, and dismissed the problem
Page 54 and 55: A UNIFIL deminer holds an Israeli-m
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Page 60 and 61: submunition causing it to explode.
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Page 64 and 65: Agriculture Perhaps the most danger
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Page 86 and 87: place.” 237 Assessing the monetar
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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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