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During the 34-day conflict between Israel and the Shiite militia Hezbollah, more than a million cluster bomblets are believed to have been dropped on south Lebanon. The United Nations estimates that 40 percent of them did not explode upon impact. Now they are a lethal legacy of the war -- the slightest touch could set them off, sending bomblets flying. Deadly as anti-personnel mines, they've killed at least 22 people since the war. Though some countries ban their army's use of cluster munitions in populated areas, there is no international convention requiring the disclosure of their use. A report on the effects of the mines outside the devastated city of Tyre, in southern Lebanon.
