UN denounces Israel cluster bombs

30 August 2006



The UN's humanitarian chief has accused Israel of "completely immoral" use of cluster bombs in Lebanon.

UN clearance experts had so far found 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets at 359 separate sites, Jan Egeland said.

Israel has repeated its previous insistence that munitions it uses in conflict comply with international law.

Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rebuffed UN chief Kofi Annan's calls for a swift end to Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon.

After talks with Mr Annan, Mr Olmert said the siege would only be lifted once the ceasefire terms were fully implemented.

This included the release of two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah militants sparked the conflict.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5299938.stm

Just like the U.N. resolutions demanding compliance with international law that Israel routinely ignores, it has violated the ceasefire in Lebanon from the very beginning.

sprinkled across a country continue to go off when and where they choose.

and neither does our GOP dictatorship.

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per linked article:

"What's shocking and completely immoral is: 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution."

WTF are we doing supporting terrorism?!?!?!

Jan Egeland said civilians were facing "massive problems" returning home because of as many as 100,000 unexploded cluster bombs, most of which were dropped in the last days of the war.

"What's shocking - and I would say to me completely immoral - is that 90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution," Mr Egeland said. "Every day people are maimed, wounded and are killed by these ordnance."

Earlier, the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, called on Israel to end its closure of the Gaza Strip and to halt the fighting that has claimed the lives of more than 200 Palestinians in the past two months.

Yesterday Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians in air strikes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1861606,00.html

Bastards

"We can't just depend on our massive oil profits, we republicons & assorted corrupt cronies need massive munitions profits as well."

- koMMander George AWOL Bush

Amy Goodman interviewed the Israeli Ambassador to the UN and asked him about Israel's use of cluster bombs in Lebanon. At first, he tried to deny it, but then Amy told him that an IDF commander had already admitted to it during the Lebanon invasion.

I brought this up on the General Discussion board, but the topic was then locked promptly.

"90% of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution"

An IDF official on Thursday defended the IAF's air force's use of cluster bombs during the war against Hizbullah in Lebanon as completely legal, responding to criticism by a UN official who labeled the use of such ordnance immoral.

The UN humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, told a news conference in New York on Wednesday that a large proportion of the bombs had failed to explode on impact and were continuing to maim and kill civilians every day. He said he was particularly disturbed that Israel used them even as a cease-fire loomed.

Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said all war was regrettable but Israel had acted in accordance with international norms.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525980419&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

and photoshopped!!!!

NT!