RE: https://mastodon.social/@Vittoria/116291732136297809

It’s worth noting that ‘banned weapons’ never stoped the #US from using #ClusterBombs nor #Israel from using #WhitePhosphorous bombs in their illegal aggressions.

Iran is continuing its retaliatory strikes against Israel, with some damage to homes in central Israel this Tuesday. Israel says Tehran is using cluster munitions, which explode mid-air and indiscriminately scatter bomblets across a wide area. FRANCE 24's Carys Garland reports.
#Iran #Israel #ClusterBombs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGopalke0M

Human Rights Groups Call on Congress to Stop Purchase of Israeli Cluster Bombs

https://murica.website/2026/02/human-rights-groups-call-on-congress-to-stop-purchase-of-israeli-cluster-bombs/

#Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase from #Israel — For Banned #ClusterWeapons

The no-bid deal for arms internationally banned for high civilian death tolls is the biggest purchase from Israel in available government records.

Dan Glaun, February 6 2026

"The Department of Defense has quietly signed a $210 million deal to buy advanced cluster shells from one of Israel’s state-owned arms companies, marking unusually large new commitments to a class of weapons and an Israeli defense establishment both widely condemned for their indiscriminate killing of #civilians.

"The deal, signed in September and not previously reported, is the department’s largest contract to purchase weapons from an Israeli company in available records, according to an online federal database that covers the last 18 years. In a reversal of the more commonly seen direction for weapons transfers between the countries — in which the U.S. sends its weapons to Israel — the U.S. will pay the Israeli weapons firm Tomer over a period of three years to produce a new 155mm munition. The shells are designed to replace decades-old and often defective cluster shells that left live explosives scattered across #Vietnam, #Laos, #Iraq, and other nations.

"The terror of cluster weapons persists long after the guns that fired them have quieted, as civilians return to fields, forests, and settlements laced with bomblets that can explode years later without warning."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pentagon-israel-cluster-munitions-weapons-sale/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/0HVzN

#USPol #WorldPol #USWarCrimes #IsraeliWarCrimes #ClusterBombs #BannedWeapons #BibiIsAWarCriminal #TrumpIsAWarCriminal #NoWar #CorporateColonialism #DoD #DepartmentOfWar #WarCriminals

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pentagon-israel-cluster-munitions-weapons-sale/

The DOD has awarded a no bid, solo source contract to an #Israeli military contractor for $200 million to buy cluster bombs.

#Clusterbombs. Y’all remember me saying that #Palestine was being used as a marketing test bed for military contractors? These cluster bombs are the ones the #IDF unleashed in #Gaza, #Lebanon and #Syria.

The DOD awarded the contract without public competition under a “public interest” exception to federal contracting law, using recent amendments that loosened rules for awarding no-bid defense contracts involving Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.

“I found this to be rather unusual,” said Julia Gledhill, a military contracting researcher for the Stimson Center, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank. “I have not seen something like this before — a sole source contract to a foreign military contractor for $200 million.”

Preliminary findings indicate Houthi missile was cluster bomb

A preliminary investigation into the Houthi missile launched towards Israel Friday evening indicated that the projectile was likely…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #clusterbombs #Houthis #SwordsofIron #World #Yemen
https://www.newsbeep.com/80728/

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Ukrainian naval drone explosion in Novorossiysk Bay kills 5 elite Russian divers — Ukraine shoots down Russian Orlan mother drone carrying FPVs for first time — Putin visits center for nuclear weapons research day after Trump says Ukraine can’t win without striking Russia — Enticing Trump: Europe and Ukraine’s $90 billion gambit to win over the White House … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/saturday-august-23-2025/

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Russia increasingly targets Ukraine’s cities with cluster munitions, raising civilian toll — [vlog,video] Failed US peace effort left Ukraine worse off, expert argues — Military aid delays will ‘encourage Russia to continue war — Russia cannot launch 500 drones every day … and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/thursday-july-3-2025/