We Need an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones
A Predator drone prepares for a nighttime surveillance mission on February 11, 2004, at Balad Air Base in Iraq.
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It was the summer of 2006, during a war referred to as the Israeli-Hezbollah war.
On July 30th, around 1:00 a.m., Israeli warplanes fired missiles at buildings in Qana, Lebanon, a small village in southern Lebanon. One missile, a bunker buster supplied by the U.S. corporation Raytheon, caused a three-story building to collapse, killing an extended family of 27 people. Fifteen of them were children.