Rubble and a burnt-out car after Israeli strikes on Nabatieh, South Lebanon, Oct. 13, 2024. (Credit: Abbas Fakih/AFP)
On Sunday, Hezbollah accused the Israeli army of having bombed the localities of Hanin and Tiri, in the southern Lebanese district Bint Jbeil, with ”missiles loaded with cluster bombs.”
It was not immediately possible to verify whether such munitions had in fact been launched by the Israeli air force.
According to the U.N., the term “cluster munitions” refers to any weapon system that fires a cluster of small explosive submunitions at a target. They are prohibited under the Oslo Convention, which was signed in May 2008 and came into force in 2010. Israel is not a signatory to this convention.
In its press release, Hezbollah described the use of such weapons as “a new barbaric crime, adding to the series of atrocities against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples” carried out by Israel, which, in its view, has used these weapons “because it has realized the inability of the international community and organizations to deal with its crimes.”
