Overview
- IDF spokesman Nadav Shoshani said Iranian forces have employed cluster munitions repeatedly and called their use against civilians a war crime.
- Israeli police reported bomb-disposal teams found physical evidence consistent with cluster submunitions at impact sites and sealed areas for clearance.
- AFP video from March 5 showed numerous flaming objects falling over central Israel, which an independent expert said matched cluster payloads from a medium‑range ballistic missile likely of Iranian origin.
- Authorities warn of unexploded bomblets that can endanger residents for years and note that dispersing submunitions complicate missile‑defense interception.
- Neither Iran nor Israel has joined the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, and Amnesty International previously documented Iranian cluster‑munition use during the June 2025 conflict.