Collecter's items from Syria found in Israeli cities

Paul Harris:

They have become the most sought-after souvenirs of an increasingly bloody war.

In towns and cities across northern Israel, young children collect them from the streets and smuggle them away in their pockets.

Watch the video of an Israeli air strike on a truck-mounted rocket launcher

They are the deadly ball-bearings that are packed inside Katyusha rockets, designed to spray out like a blunderbuss and cause maximum death and injury.

After every attack, you can usually gather them by the handful if you search hard enough. In the last two weeks I have picked up too many to count, and seen dozens of kids swapping them like miniature marbles at the scene of a blast.

I have also seen the damage they do. A pool of blood where two little brothers were blasted to death, so badly disfigured that their family could hardly tell them apart. A teenage girl's flesh on a living room wall, spattered there when a rocket came through her ceiling. A city bus so badly damaged by a Katyusha blast that it resembled a giant colander, riddled with holes as scores of ball bearings tore through the metal coachwork.

This, the military men keep telling us, is what Israel is trying to stop when it bombs Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. And although Israeli forces brought carnage and atrocity to civilians on the other side of the border today, I detected not the faintest sign of any immediate let-up here in its determination to smash the terrorists' ability to strike. The mood seemed to be one of trying to finish the job while they still had time.

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There is more. Hezballah needs to be called to account for its war crimes including using human shields and deliberate attacks against civilians.