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U.S. Urged to Stop Selling Cluster Bombs to Israel

HeadlineJan 30, 2007

Human Rights Watch is urging the United States to stop selling cluster bombs to Israel following the widespread use of U.S.-made cluster munitions during the war in Lebanon last year. On Monday, State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack acknowledged that Israel likely violated U.S. arms export agreements when it dropped cluster bombs among villages in Lebanon.

Marc Garlasco of Human Rights Watch: “As a comparison, in the war in Iraq in 2003, the United States over three weeks dropped two million cluster submunitions. Israel, in the war in Lebanon, dropped four million in three days. It dwarfs any use of cluster bombs prior. You can take Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo and put them together, and you’re not going to come close to what happened in southern Lebanon.”

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