Israel cluster bomb use in Lebanon "outrageous": U.N.
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Israel dropped at least 350,000 cluster   bomblets on south Lebanon in its war with Hizbollah guerrillas,   mostly when the conflict was all but over, leaving a deadly   legacy for civilians, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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The fighting stopped two weeks ago, but it's still too dangerous for Abdullah Ziaeddine to move back into his war-blasted home, much less start to rebuild. Like hundreds of fields, houses and roads across Lebanon, his yard is littered with unexploded bomblets from an Israeli cluster bomb attack that spewed the small and deadly metal canisters.
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The United Nations has documented 13 incidents of illegal weapons in southern Lebanon since early September, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday, calling Beirut's border monitoring deficient.
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Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Israel's third-largest city Sunday. Israel faced tougher-than-expected ground battles and bombarded targets in southern Lebanon, hitting a convoy of refugees.
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The United Nations said on Sunday the   week-old truce between Israel and Hizbollah could easily   collapse, a day after it condemned an Israeli raid on the   guerrillas in Lebanon as a violation.
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Lebanon said on Sunday that a U.N.  report saying Syria had failed to meet a Security Council  demand to withdraw its troops from its tiny neighbor was  exaggerated.
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Clearing unexploded cluster bombs used   by Israel in Lebanon during the month-long war, many of them   U.S.-manufactured, could take 10 years, a British-based   demining group said on Friday.
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Israel is using photographs and video to buttress its accusation that Hezbollah systematically fired from civilian neighborhoods in southern Lebanon.
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Israel used a precision-guided   bomb to launch a direct hit on four U.N. peacekeepers killed in   southern Lebanon last July, the United Nations said on Friday   of its probe into the incident.
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KHIYAM, Lebanon  - A car bomb, "most likely" driven by a suicide bomber, killed five U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Sunday, a police source said.
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The State Department is investigating whether Israel misused American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas of Lebanon.
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A top U.N. peacekeeping official on Friday said he feared the war in southern Lebanon would continue until late August and voiced fears Israel would flatten Lebanon's southern villages and destroy Tyre "neighborhood by neighborhood" if Hezbollah rockets keep landing in the Jewish state.
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A human rights group issued a report Wednesday accusing Hezbollah of firing rockets indiscriminately at civilian areas in Israel during last summer's war, prompting swift condemnation by the militant group and even its Lebanese opponents.
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Israel admits the bombing of a UN post in southern Lebanon that killed four peacekeepers was a "tragic error".
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The UN humanitarian chief denounces Israel's heavy use of cluster bombs in the final days of the Lebanon conflict.
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The State Department notified Congress yesterday that Israel may have violated U.S. rules prohibiting the use of American-made cluster bombs in civilian areas during last summer's war in Lebanon.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 17 -- The U.N. General Assembly voted 156 to 7 on Friday to condemn Israel for "indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force" in its military offensive in Gaza, during an emergency session that provided scores of U.N. members with a familiar platform to excoriate the Jewish...