LEBANON: Leftover Israeli cluster bombs kill civilians

"I have never seen anything like it before. It is far more widespread than in Iraq," said Sean Sutton, spokesman for the Nabatiyeh office of the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), a UK-based NGO.Sutton said the group was struggling to cope with the quantities of cluster bombs lying around Nabatiyeh. "We've got a team working around the area clearing at the moment but there is such huge contamination that teams are just clearing inside houses and pathways. Fields and gardens are a second priority." The leftover bombs are hampering the delivery of relief food. "The threat is enormous," said Matt Hollingworth of the United Nation's World Food Programme. "We have to take MAG people with us for on-the-spot assessments before our convoys can travel some roads."