BEIRUT — A nearly decade-old Israeli cluster bomb killed a nine-year-old Syrian boy and wounded three of his relatives in south Lebanon, on Thursday, June 25.

A security source said the cluster bomb, dropped by an Israeli warplane during the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, killed Khaled Barakat, 9, and wounded his two brothers, Hasan, 5, Mahmoud, 7, and father, Jamal, 33.

The incident took place near the public square in the Marjayoun district town of Majdal Selem.

The wounded were transferred to Tibnine Public Hospital for treatment.

Israel dropped roughly 4 million cluster bombs on Lebanon during the July-August 2006 war, most during the last 48 hours of the conflict, according to the United Nations.

When cluster bombs explode they eject small munitions designed to kill or maim people in the area.

Unexploded cluster bombs still litter much of the south, with the Army’s Lebanon Mine Action Center, the U.N. and other international organizations working to remove the deadly devices.