"Israel dropped more than 4 million cluster bombs on South Lebanon during the war, 90% of which in the last 72 hours before the ceasefire went into effect. But more than 40% of the submunitions Israel dropped that summer failed to detonate, making them a lethal risk to anyone in the affected area.
Despite the known dangers, many Lebanese in the South go to places where cluster bombs still lie in order to cultivate the land. More than 50% of the areas affected by cluster bombs have yet to be cleared, according to Dalya Farran, the spokesperson for the UN Mine Action Coordination Center (UNMACC), and Israel has so far denied Lebanon’s repeated requests to access maps of where the bombs were dropped."
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