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#cluster munitions

Weapons that disperse submunitions over wide areas, posing extreme danger to civilians both during attacks and long afterward from unexploded ordnance. Banned by the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2008), which the U.S. has not joined.

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Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War
Serious Rights Violation Ongoing

Pentagon Signs $210M+ Deal to Purchase Cluster Munitions From Israel

The US contracted with an Israeli state-owned arms manufacturer for banned cluster munitions at industrial scale, reversing decades of declining reliance on these weapons and funding an Israeli weapons program while cluster munitions continue to kill and maim civilians worldwide.

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