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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, July 14, 2023. (Aleksey Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
July 16, 2023, 2:57 pm
As Ukraine gets US cluster bombs, Putin says Russia also has controversial munition
Russian leader warns his military has ‘sufficient stockpile’ of such weapons, has right to take ‘reciprocal’ action if targeted
By Elise Morton
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in video of visit to Snake Island, released on July 8, 2023 (Screen grab)
July 8, 2023, 2:16 pm
Zelensky marks 500 days of war with video of visit to symbol of defiance Snake Island
Ukrainian president visits Black Sea land mass where defenders famously defied a Russian warship at the beginning of the invasion; Turkey’s Erdogan backs Ukraine joining NATO
By FELIPE DANA
A photograph taken on July 3, 2022 shows an tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher embedded in the ground after shelling in Kramatorsk, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP)
July 8, 2023, 9:21 am
US to send cluster bombs to Ukraine; Biden defends supplying controversial munition
Washington says Kyiv vowed to use weapons carefully; US to send version with reduced ‘dud rate,’ meaning fewer smaller bomblets fail to explode, later cause unintended deaths
By Zeke Miller, TARA COPP and Lolita C. Baldor
A photograph taken on July 3, 2022, shows the tail section of a 300mm rocket that appeared to contain cluster bombs and was launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher, embedded in the ground after shelling in Kramatorsk, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP)
August 25, 2022, 7:07 pm
Monitor blasts Russia’s ‘horrendous’ use of cluster bombs in Ukraine
Ukraine is only place in the world where such munitions are currently deployed, Cluster Munition Coalition says, adds that Kyiv also used cruel weapon at least 3 times during war
By Robin MILLARD
In this photo, members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, known as the White Helmets, inspect cluster bombs in the Khan Sheikhoun neighborhood of Idlib, Syria, September 29, 2016. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
November 30, 2017, 2:48 pm
Syrian military used banned cluster bombs in besieged area — Amnesty
Regime forces committing war crimes on ‘epic scale,’ says human rights body
By AP
Yemeni men walk past a building, damaged during an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition, in the capital Sanaa on November 29, 2015. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)
May 29, 2016, 1:34 am
US blocks cluster-bomb sales to Saudis: report
Move comes amid concerns over civilian casualties in year-long Saudi intervention in Yemen
By AFP
In this file image made from video posted online on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, by Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, a volunteer search and rescue group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, a paramedic rescues a child from the site of what witnesses said was a Russian airstrike in Douma, Syria. (Syria Civil Defense via AP video, File)
December 24, 2015, 1:01 am
Accusations grow against Russia over Syria civilian killings
Hundreds of innocents dying in indiscriminate cluster munitions strikes, say rights groups; Moscow rejects claims
By Zeina Karam
Smoke billows as supporters of exiled Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi clash with Shiite Houthi rebels near the International airport in the port city of Aden, on May 2, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/SALEH AL-OBEIDI)
May 3, 2015, 7:36 pm
Saudi-led troops launch ‘limited’ ground deployment in Yemen
Coalition denies major ground operation underway; rights group claims controversial cluster bombs used
By Nabil Hassan and Fawaz al-Haidari
An illustrative photo of cluster bomb munitions found in Syria (photo credit: image capture HumanRightsWatch/YouTube)
December 26, 2013, 11:09 am
Lebanese hunter injured in blast blamed on IDF
Dog reportedly triggered cluster bomb in southern Lebanon left over from 2006 conflict with Israel
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of cluster bomb munitions found in Syria (photo credit: image capture HumanRightsWatch/YouTube)
From the WebAugust 24, 2013, 8:52 am
US shipping thousands of cluster bombs to Saudis, despite global ban
Foreign Policy: US sells $640 million worth of the incendiary weapon, capable of killing large groups of people, to the Gulf regime — despite its being banned by 83 nations
A WE117B nuclear missile, developed by the UK in the 1960s (illustrative photo: CC BY Cloudsurfer_UK/Flickr)
June 3, 2013, 3:25 pm
Israel now has 80 nuclear warheads, report says
Think tank: Total number of atomic weapons dropping worldwide, but possession is ‘still a marker of international status’
By Gavriel Fiske
A Syrian boy waves the Syrian revolutionary flag during a commemorative celebration of the second anniversary of the Syrian revolution, in Amman, Jordan, March 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
March 16, 2013, 9:17 am
Syria expands use of widely banned cluster bombs, group says
Human Rights Watch: At least 156 of the devices, which scatter small bomblets, used in 119 locations in past 6 months
Israeli firemen wear gas masks as they take part in a drill simulating a chemical missile attack in the industrial zone of the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi in 2009 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
December 7, 2012, 11:45 am
Assad is already using chemical weapons, Syrian opposition claims
Sarin and mustard gas utilized in battle, says defecting officer; last week’s internet blackout was cover for transport of arms to Damascus, according to opposition
By Elhanan Miller
An illustrative photo of cluster bomb munitions found in Syria (photo credit: image capture HumanRightsWatch/YouTube)
From the WebNovember 6, 2012, 11:23 pm
UN cites ‘credible reports’ of Syrian army using cluster bombs
Top diplomatic official says both regime forces and rebels committing atrocities, Reuters reports
Spanish UN troops in southern Lebanon patrol under the Hezbullah flag (Photo credit: Flash 90)
From the WebOctober 30, 2012, 6:11 am
Israel to limit cluster bombs in possible war with Hezbollah
Senior IDF officer speaks to Reuters, suggests detailed plans for possible future conflict in Lebanon
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