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The Ugliness of the Hezbollah-Israeli Conflict

munaeem | 15 September, 2006 02:14

On the Hezbollah side, we have (via Reuters): Hizbollah guilty of war crimes, Amnesty says

Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah committed war crimes in its conflict with Israel by targeting civilians with rockets packed with metal ball bearings, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.It said around a quarter of the nearly 4,000 rockets that Hizbollah launched into Israel during the 34-day war were fired directly into urban areas.

On the IDF side (via Haaretz as noted by F&Vs the other day):

“What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs,” the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.

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