On the morning of an apparent cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah militants, 11-year-old Hadi Hattab played in the street for the first time since the monthlong war began in July 2006.
Seconds later, an explosion of ball bearings shot into his skull from one of more than 4 million cluster bombs fired into southern Lebanon by the Israeli military. The boy died a few hours later.
Since the end of the conflict, Hadi and 29 other Lebanese civilians have been killed and more than 200 injured by triggering some of the unexploded cluster bombs in southern Lebanon. The United Nations estimates that about 1 million of these bombs - mostly produced in the United States - failed to explode on impact, leaving roads, schools, homes and fields littered with lethal explosives. Most of the bombs were fired by the Israeli military in the last three days of the conflict after a cease-fire had been declared.
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