UN slams Israel as unexploded cluster bombs discovered

The UN humanitarian chief has accused Israel of “shocking” and “completely immoral” behaviour for dropping large numbers of cluster bombs on Lebanon when a ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah was in sight.

Jan Egeland told a news briefing yesterday that Israel had either made a “terribly wrong decision” or had “started thinking afterwards”. The remarks were unusually harsh, even for Egeland, who often ignores an unwritten rule that UN officials should not criticise member states too severely.