Unguided ‘dumb bombs’ used in almost half of Israeli strikes on Gaza
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Israel’s extensive use of unguided munitions, revealed in a new U.S. intelligence assessment, may explain the war’s enormous civilian death toll, experts say.

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We should give them some of those cluster bombs we gave to Ukraine.

Legally possible because Israel is not a party to the convention on cluster munitions. Neither Ukraine nor Russia are either.

I can’t imagine cluster bombs being useful in urban warfare though.

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