cluster bombs: sbs tv

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The United Nations estimates that in the final 72 hours of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict last year, the Israeli army fired up to FOUR MILLION cluster bombs into southern Lebanon.

While many detonated on impact, up to *40 per cent* didnt. Instead, they lay on the ground or hung from tree branches by their fabric loops: thousands of individual tragedies, just waiting to happen.

And inevitably, tragedy struck: as Dateline's David Brill discovers, a young girl picking oranges accidentally dislodged a cluster bomb hanging from a tree branch. It hit the ground, detonated and blew off her leg.

Join David Brill on Dateline as he travels through southern Lebanon, witnessing the ongoing suffering that cluster bombs bring to the civilian population. He films a dangerous treasure hunt, as aid volunteers try to locate and detonate remaining bombs, and he's in Norway when Australian munitions expert John Rodsted gets the good news: a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs is on its way.