In a large, mountainous country. Iran will just keep rolling them out.

Generates an amazing amount of silence.

Exclusive: Images are first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly 20 years

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/19/israel-used-widely-banned-cluster-munitions-in-lebanon-photos-of-remnants-suggest



Wed 19 Nov 2025 14.00 GMT

Israel used widely banned cluster munitions in its recent 13-month war in Lebanon, photos of munition remnants in south Lebanon seen by the Guardian suggest. The images, which have been examined by six different arms experts, appear to show the remnants of two different types of Israeli cluster munitions found in three different locations: south of the Litani River in the forested valleys of Wadi Zibqin, Wadi Barghouz and Wadi Deir Siryan.


The remnants of what is believed to be a Barak Eitan cluster munition, with ‘cluster’ written in Hebrew on the shell.

The evidence is the first indication that Israel has used cluster munitions in nearly two decades since it employed them in the 2006 Lebanon war. It would also be the first time that Israel was known to have used the two new types of cluster munitions found – the 155mm M999 Barak Eitan and 227mm Ra’am Eitan guided missiles. Cluster munitions are container bombs which release many smaller submunitions, small “bomblets”, over a wide area the size of several football fields. The use of cluster munitions is widely banned as up to 40% of submunitions do not explode upon impact, posing a danger to civilians who might later stumble upon them and be killed when they explode.

To date, 124 states have joined the convention on cluster munitions, which forbids their use, production and transfer. Israel is not a party to the convention and is not bound by it. “We believe the use of cluster munitions is always in conflict with a military’s duty to respect international humanitarian law because of their indiscriminate nature at time of use and afterwards,” said Tamar Gabelnick, the director of the Cluster Munition Coalition. “Their wide area impact means they cannot distinguish between military and civilian targets and the cluster munition remnants kill and maim civilians for decades after use.”

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Lebanon in particular has a painful history with cluster munitions. Israel blanketed Lebanon with 4m cluster bombs in the final days of the 2006 war, with an estimated 1m failing to explode. The presence of unexploded cluster bombs continues to make life in south Lebanon dangerous, with more than 400 people killed by unexploded bomblets since 2006. The huge number of unexploded cluster bombs in Lebanon was a main driving factor for the drafting of the cluster convention in 2008.

If so then it seems both attacks should be condemned.

Or does Iran now have the Hamas shield "Everything we do is justified"?

hundreds of people have since been killed.

I think that that level of usage answers your question. Lebanon is a tiny tiny nation, densley populated, so 4 million cluster bombs are bound to have landed near many population centers.

And yes, of course both Iran and Israel should both be condemned, same as I condemned (and condemn still) both Hamas and Israel, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

There are no 'good guys' when it comes to the Hamas terrorist thugs and war criminal Hamas 'government', the Israeli terrorist thug settlers, and then war criminal, terrorist supporting Iranian and Israeli governments, plus, of course, as stated above as well, the terror thugs of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

A pox on ALL of their houses and a pox on Trump and his war criminal, terrorist supporting (in the US and abroad) government.

Use of cluster munitions on civilians. Do you notice the lack of condemnation by pretty much anyone else?

TBF, I do not believe every use of cluster munitions is criminal however the long term effects must be considered in their use. Indiscriminately scattering millions (I assume bomblets) is indefensible.