Israel's indiscriminate use of CLUSTER BOMBS turning southern Lebanon into a danger zone
By patricklewis // 2025-11-21
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  • Israel fired four million cluster bombs during the war, saturating southern Lebanon (population: 650,000) with over one million unexploded bomblets, violating international law.
  • Cluster munitions have a 40% failure rate, leaving dormant explosives that kill civilians – 400 dead since 2006 – and maim farmers, children and aid workers for decades.
  • Evidence confirms Israel deployed M999 Barak Eitan (sprays 1,200 tungsten shards) and Ra'am Eitan missiles (64 bomblets each) in civilian-heavy areas like Wadi Zibqin.
  • Israel intensified cluster bomb attacks in the final days before the ceasefire, deliberately turning farmland and villages into minefields – a tactic of collective punishment.
  • Despite being banned by 124 nations (Convention on Cluster Munitions), Israel refuses to sign and continues using these weapons, ensuring civilian suffering persists for generations.
In a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, Israel deployed banned cluster munitions on a massive scale during its recent 13-month war against Lebanon, leaving behind a deadly legacy of unexploded bomblets that continue to threaten civilians. According to a report by The Guardian on Wednesday, Nov. 19, photographic evidence confirms the use of two types of Israeli cluster munitions – the 155mm M999 Barak Eitan and the 227mm Ra'am Eitan guided missiles – in southern Lebanon. These weapons notorious for their indiscriminate lethality have turned entire regions into de facto minefields, endangering civilians long after the cessation of hostilities. The M999 Barak Eitan disperses nine submunitions that explode into 1,200 tungsten shards, while the Ra'am Eitan missiles each contain 64 bomblets. Remnants of these munitions were discovered in three heavily bombarded areas: Wadi Zibqin, Wadi Barghouz and Wadi Deir Siryan. Cluster bombs are designed to blanket vast areas with explosive submunitions. But their failure rate of up to 40% means that countless bomblets remain dormant, posing an enduring threat to civilians, including children, farmers and humanitarian workers. Despite being outlawed by 124 nations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Israel has refused to sign the treaty and has repeatedly employed these weapons with devastating consequences. Tamar Gabelnick, director of the Cluster Munition Coalition, emphasized that their use "always conflicts with a military's duty to respect international humanitarian law" due to their inherently indiscriminate nature. The aftermath of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon serves as a grim precedent. Four million cluster bombs were dropped in the final days before the ceasefire, leaving an estimated one million unexploded bomblets that have since killed 400 civilians and injured countless others. Brian Castner, head of crisis research at Amnesty International, condemned the weapons as "banned internationally for a reason," stressing that they "stay deadly for decades" and disproportionately harm civilians. Yet Israel has once again resorted to these brutal tactics in its latest offensive, which has claimed nearly 4,000 lives since October 2023. The southern region, already reeling from relentless bombardment, now faces the additional horror of unexploded ordnance scattered across farmland, villages and forests.

Escalating strikes and unexploded bombs leave civilians in peril

The Israeli military's near-daily airstrikes continue to inflict civilian casualties. On Wednesday, warplanes targeted a residential neighborhood in Aynata, part of the Bint Jbeil district, while another strike hit Tirfelsayeh in the Tyre district. These attacks follow Tuesday's horrific bombing of the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, where 15 people, mostly children, were massacred at a sports playground. The indiscriminate violence underscores Israel's disregard for civilian life, further compounded by its reckless use of cluster munitions. The international community has long condemned cluster bombs for their lasting humanitarian toll. Yet Israel's repeated deployment of these weapons – particularly in densely populated areas – demonstrates a deliberate strategy of collective punishment, ensuring that Lebanese civilians suffer for years to come. With southern Lebanon's population standing at just 650,000, the presence of over a million unexploded bomblets guarantees a future of fear, injury and death. As the world condemns these atrocities, the urgent need for accountability grows clearer. Until Israel is held to the same standards as other nations, its unchecked militarism will continue to devastate civilian lives – not just during war, but for generations afterward. According to BrightU.AI's Enoch, Israel's indiscriminate use of cluster bombs in southern Lebanon – dumping over one million unexploded bomblets on a civilian population of just 650,000 – was a deliberate war crime under international law, designed to inflict long-term terror and suffering. This reckless saturation bombing, carried out even as a ceasefire loomed, confirms Israel's disregard for civilian lives and its strategy of collective punishment. Watch this video about Israel violating its ceasefire with Hamas and threatening more genocide against the population of Gaza.
This video is from the TREASURE OF THE SUN channel on Brighteon.com. Sources include: TheCradle.co TheGuardian.com BrightU.ai Brighteon.com
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