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However, once a transportation artery has been severed, future attacks on that artery will
provide, at the most, severely diminished military advantage. The only area in which a more
general degradation of the transportation infrastructure could plausibly have been legitimate is in
the area of ground confrontation between Israeli and Hezbollah forces.
62
http://www.maccsl.org/reports/Leb%20UXO%20Fact%20Sheet%2023%20September
%202006.pdf. According to a map prepared by UNMACC of the 482 sites, cluster bomb use
was concentrated in two bands away from the border area: from southeast of Rashidiyah on the
coast (south of Tyre) to the northeast of Tyre; with a second band from southwest of Brashit and
south of Tibnin extending northwards through Qabrikha into the Bekka valley to the west of
Marjayoun. The only significant uses in the border zone were in the Yarun area south of
Bint Jbeil and opposite (west of) the Israeli town of Metula.
63
One of the Rapporteurs visited Tibnine Governmental Hospital. During the conflict, this
hospital provided medical services, shelter for 1,800 IDPs, and support (e.g. food) for over
10,000 transiting IDPs. The Rapporteur was informed that, in the last days of the conflict,
between 50-100 cluster bomb sub-munitions hit the hospital and fell in the hospital grounds or
the immediate vicinity; some exploded, some did not. Two unexploded bomblets hung in trees
within the hospital grounds. One exploded within three or four metres of the door to the
emergency clinic. A hospital fuel tank was hit (it did not explode) and windows broken.
Installed on the roof, the systems for air conditioning and lifts were hit and malfunctioned. More
than ten cars, parked within a few metres of the hospital, were hit and burnt, blackening the
hospital’s wall. The hospital’s occupants were sheltering in an underground floor at the relevant
times and none was injured. UNMACC has now cleared the hospital and its immediate environs
of unexploded ordinances.
64
On the question of the adequacy of the provision of maps by Israel, see the conclusions
addressed to the Government of Israel below.
65
ICRC Study, see note 21 above, p. 340.
66
Ibid., pp. 568-603 (Rule 156).
67
OCHA, Situation Report - Lebanon response, No. 23, 15 August 2006.
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Jihad al-Bina, the Hezbollah construction arm which has carried out extensive damage
assessment on the ground, estimates that 5,000 housing units were completely destroyed in
Dhahiya, with 17,000 having endured some level of damage. They further estimte that presently
14,000 families are without homes in Dhahiya, equaling over 60,000 persons. (Based on local
demographic realities, the quantification method applies a multiplication factor of 4.7 for family
units to arrive at a total population figure. Thus, 14,000 families would approximate
65,800 persons.) Rapid Preliminary Damage Assessment, see note 52 above, p. 11,
http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/Documents/rapidpreliminarydamageassessment.pdf, refers
to 195 residential buildings “collapsed or destroyed” in all of Beirut, of which 144 are located in
the cadastral limit Haret Horaik, the most impacted area of the Dahiye (132 of thesebuildings
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