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Amnesty: Hezbollah Committed War Crimes in Rocket Attacks on Israel

HeadlineSep 14, 2006

A leading human rights group is accusing Hezbollah of war crimes during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. In a new report, Amnesty International says Hezbollah deliberately targeted Israeli civilian areas in violation of international humanitarian law. Hezbollah fired nearly 4,000 rockets into northern Israel, killing forty-three civilians and forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to flee their homes. Around a quarter of all rockets were fired directly into urban areas. One-tenth of those were packed with thousands of ball bearings that sprayed out across a wide distance. Hezbullah maintains the rockets were aimed at stopping Israel’s attacks that killed more than one thousand Lebanese civilians.

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