"cluster munitions are being used"
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, told reporters on Monday that officials believed as many as 25 per cent of the 548 people killed in the fighting were civilians and that Gaza's health system, overwhelmed by the more than 2,500 injured, was "increasingly precarious".
"This is, in our view, a humanitarian crisis," Holmes said. "It's very hard for me to see any other way you could describe it, given the conditions in which the population are living."
Holmes added that "cluster munitions are being used", and that it was "a fair presumption" that most of the civilians killed were women and children.
Source:
english.aljazeera.net
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