Editing Cluster munition (section)

=== Lebanon, 1978, 1982 and 2006 ===
{{Seealso|Allegations of war crimes in the 2006 Lebanon War}}
[[File:Lebanese girl injured by cluster bomblet.jpg|thumb|right|Lebanese girl wounded by a cluster bomblet in 2006]] 
* Extensively used by Israel during the [[1978 South Lebanon conflict|1978 Israeli invasion]] of Lebanon, the [[South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)|1982–2000 occupation of Lebanon]] and also by [[Hezbollah]] in the [[2006 Lebanon War]].

During the Israeli-Lebanese [[1982 Lebanon War|conflict in 1982]], Israel used cluster munitions, many of them American-made, on targets in southern Lebanon. Israel also used 4.6 million cluster bombs in the [[2006 Lebanon War]].<ref name="mcc.org">[http://mcc.org/clusterbombs/news/lebanon/thenandnow.html MCC | Cluster Bombs<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061121035747/http://mcc.org/clusterbombs/news/lebanon/thenandnow.html |date=November 21, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/28/world/use-of-cluster-bombs-is-confirmed-by-israel.html | work=The New York Times | title=Use of Cluster Bombs Is Confirmed by Israel | date=1982-06-28 | access-date=2010-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/Reagan_News1982.html|title=President Reagan News Conferences & Interviews on the Middle East/Israel (1982)|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org|access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Khayyat |first=Munira |title=A Landscape of War. Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon |publisher=University of California Press |year=2022}}</ref>

Two types of cluster munitions were transferred to Israel from the US The first was the CBU-58 which uses the BLU-63 bomblet. This cluster bomb is no longer in production. The second was the MK-20 Rockeye, produced by Honeywell Incorporated in Minneapolis.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} The CBU-58 was used by Israel in Lebanon in both 1978 and 1982.<ref name="mcc.org"/> The Israeli Defense company [[Israel Military Industries]] also manufactures the more up-to-date M-85 cluster bomb.

[[Hezbollah]] fired Chinese-manufactured cluster munitions against Israeli civilian targets, using 122&nbsp;mm rocket launchers during the 2006 war, hitting [[Kiryat Motzkin]], [[Nahariya]], [[Karmiel]], [[Maghar, Israel|Maghar]], and [[Safsufa]]. A total of 113 rockets and 4,407 submunitions were fired into Israel during the war.<ref name="hrw.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2006/10/18/lebanonisrael-hezbollah-hit-israel-cluster-munitions-during-conflict|title=Lebanon/Israel: Hezbollah Hit Israel with Cluster Munitions During Conflict|date=18 October 2006|access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3443979,00.html|title=State snubbed war victim, family says|access-date=13 July 2008|date=30 August 2007|work=[[Ynet]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602073716/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3443979%2C00.html|archive-date=2 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to the [[United Nations Mine Action Service]], Israel dropped up to four million submunitions on Lebanese soil, of which one million remain unexploded.<ref name="cfr-2011-11-14">{{cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/campaign-ban-cluster-bombs |title=The Campaign to Ban Cluster Bombs|last=Beehner|first=Lionel|date=2006-11-21|website=cfr.org|publisher=[[Council on Foreign Relations]]|access-date=2020-02-17}}</ref> According to a report prepared by Lionel Beehner for the Council on Foreign Relations, the United States restocked Israel's arsenal of cluster bombs, triggering a State Department investigation to determine whether Israel had violated secret agreements it had signed with the United States on their use.<ref name="cfr-2011-11-14" />

As Haaretz reported in November 2006, the Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff [[Dan Halutz]] wanted to launch an investigation into the use of cluster bombs during the Lebanon war.<ref name="haaretz-2006-11-20">{{cite news |last1=Hasson |first1=Nir |last2=Rapoport |first2=Meron |date=2006-11-20 |title=Halutz Orders Probe Into Use of Cluster Bombs in Lebanon |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4933286 |work=Haaretz |location=Tel Aviv |access-date=2020-02-17}}</ref> Halutz claimed that some cluster bombs had been fired against his direct order, which stated that cluster bombs should be used with extreme caution and not be fired into populated areas. The IDF apparently disobeyed this order.<ref name="haaretz-2006-11-20" />

[[Human Rights Watch]] said there was evidence that Israel had used cluster bombs very close to civilian areas and described them as "unacceptably inaccurate and unreliable weapons when used around civilians" and that "they should never be used in populated areas".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/24/isrlpa13798.htm|title=Israeli Cluster Munitions Hit Civilians in Lebanon|date=2006-07-24|publisher=[[Human Rights Watch|HRW]]|access-date=2016-12-04|archive-date=2008-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113070829/http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/24/isrlpa13798.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of using cluster munitions in an attack on Bilda, a Lebanese village, on 19 July<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/07/1e054faa-dbad-4810-b5f4-4052663eec42.html | title = Middle East: Rice Calls For A 'New Middle East' | date=2006-07-25 | publisher=[[Radio Free Europe]]}}</ref> which killed 1 civilian and injured 12, including 7 children. The Israeli "army defended ... the use of cluster munitions in its offensive with [[Lebanon]], saying that using such munitions was 'legal under [[international law]]' and the army employed them 'in accordance with international standards{{'"}}.<ref>"EXTRA: Israel defends use of cluster munitions". ''[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur]]''. 25 July 2006. LexisNexis Academic.</ref> Foreign Ministry Spokesman [[Mark Regev]] added, "[I]f [[NATO]] countries stock these weapons and have used them in recent conflicts – in [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|FR Yugoslavia]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq]] – the world has no reason to point a finger at Israel."<ref name="Friedman">Friedman, Ina. "Deadly Remnants". ''[[The Jerusalem Report]]''. 13 November 2006: 20–22</ref>