00:01Alongside police, residents of this home in central Israel
00:05assessed the damage after an Iranian attack.
00:08We were sitting in the safe room after having an alarm.
00:12After around four minutes, we heard a loud boom.
00:17We got really nervous. There was a sound of running water.
00:21We saw a really big hole in the ground.
00:24There was a lot of damages from really tiny rockets.
00:28But it wasn't the only impact Tuesday.
00:31Vehicles and a train station suffered heavy damage at several sites across central Israel,
00:36hit by what Israeli media say was a cluster warhead.
00:40Since the start of the war, Israel has repeatedly accused Iran of dropping the banned weapons.
00:46Cluster munitions explode mid-air or on impact and scatter smaller bombs across a wide area.
00:52On Sunday, at least eight people were injured in Israel following repeated missile launches from Iran,
00:59including two which contained cluster bombs according to Israeli authorities.
01:04Then on Monday, officials reported another site struck by a cluster bomb in the city of Rishon Lezion.
01:10One of the most problematic aspects of cluster bombs is that many of the bomblets fail to detonate upon impact.
01:17And Israel is particularly worried about unexploded ordnance.
01:22When the war is over, probably we find in the hotel, in the hospital, in the schools area,
01:31a lot of small bombs that we do not see or heard about them during the war.
01:38During the 12-day war between Iran and Israel last June,
01:42Amnesty International said the Islamic Republic used cluster munitions at least three times.
01:48Israel, too, has used the weapons.
01:50And in 2007, a U.S. government investigation found that it had probably violated arms export agreements
01:57when it dropped U.S.-made cluster bombs in Lebanon during its 2006 war with militant group Hezbollah.
02:04In 2008, the adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions banned the use,
02:09transfer, production and stockpiling of cluster bombs.
02:13It's since been ratified by more than a hundred countries,
02:16though neither Israel nor Iran is among them.
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