UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. humanitarian chief on Wednesday accused Israel of �shocking� and �completely immoral� behavior for dropping large numbers of cluster bombs on Lebanon when a cease-fire in its war with Hezbollah was in sight.
Jan Egeland said Israel had either made a �terribly wrong decision� or had �started thinking afterwards.� The remarks were unusually harsh even for Egeland, who often ignores an unwritten rule that U.N. officials should not criticize member states too severely.
�What�s shocking and I would say, to me, completely immoral is that 90 percent of the cluster bomb strikes occurred in the last 72 hours of the conflict, when we knew there would be a resolution,� Jan Egeland said at a news conference.
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