Weapons & Arms Trade
Cluster bombs and flechette shells
Cluster bombs are heavy ordinance which, when detonated, release hundreds of darts (flechettes) or other fragments of metal shrapnel. They are designed to target human beings and have been used on several occasions by Israel against Palestinians, with many civilian casualties. (Added 12 August 2003)

Use of cluster bombs in Lebanon
  • Unexploded bombs hamper rural recovery, IRIN (5 September 2006)
  • OCHA: 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets in south Lebanon, OCHA (30 August 2006)
  • Israel's immoral use of cluster bombs in Lebanon poses major threat, UN News (30 August 2006)
  • OCHA: 359 individual cluster bomb strike locations recorded, OCHA (28 August 2006)
  • OCHA: Unexploded ordnances the most urgent threat, OCHA (25 August 2006)
  • ADC Welcomes State Department Inquiry into Israeli Use of Cluster Bombs, ADC (25 August 2006)


    Flechette shells
  • PCHR: Israeli High Court considers use of flechette shells (15 April 2003)
  • PCHR: Israeli High Court rules to permit Israeli army's use of flechette shells (27 April 2003)
  • Human Rights Watch: "Israel should stop using flechettes" (29 April 2003)
  • Dart shells pose civilian threat, Human Rights Watch (16 June 2001)
  • Israel's military debates use of flechette round, Steve Rodan, Jane's Defence Weekly (22 May 2001)

    Israeli High Court
  • Full text High Court Ruling 8990, Human Rights Watch (27 April 2003)


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