A/HRC/2/7 page 25 Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction - to take urgent action to add cluster munitions to the list of weapons banned under international law. 107. The mission makes the following recommendations to the international Commission of Inquiry: (a) Within the framework of resolution S-2/1, the Commission should examine a cross-section of Israeli attacks to evaluate whether they were directed against legitimate military objectives and respected the principle of proportionality. It should also investigate reported attacks against fleeing civilians, ambulances and health facilities, large-scale displacement and the destruction of housing and property, and determine whether any such acts amounted to war crimes; (b) While cluster munitions do not per se violate international law, the manner in which they were used by Israel appears to have been inconsistent with the principles of distinction and proportionality. If proven, the widely reported claim that the great majority of these bombs were dropped in the final 72 hours of the campaign, when a ceasefire was imminent, would indicate an intention to inhibit and prevent the return of civilians and a reckless disregard for the predictable civilian casualties that have occurred. These issues warrant in-depth analysis by the Commission. 108. The mission makes the following recommendations to the international community: (a) The international community should ensure that necessary support continues to be provided to the Lebanese authorities in the reconstruction process; (b) The international community, including all relevant United Nations agencies, is encouraged to increase its support to the health and housing sectors in Lebanon; (c) The international community should significantly increase funding for UNMACC in order for it to more expeditiously complete the destruction of unexploded ordnance and allow the population to return to normal life; (d) The international community – especially donors, United Nations agencies and relevant international non-governmental organizations – must attach a high priority to addressing, in close cooperation with the Governments of Lebanon and Israel and with their respective domestic civil societies, the mental and psychosocial health impacts of the conflict. Notes 1 This is not a complete list of those whom the mission met. For example, it met the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Lebanese Red Cross, Magen David Adom, the National Committee for Local Authorities in Israel, the World Health Organization (WHO), the

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