Israeli cluster bombs dropped during the month-long blitz against Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon are taking an increasing toll on people trying to return home.
"Every day we hear about casualties, it's a large number," said Dalya Farran, media officer for the UN Mine Action coordination Centre in southern Lebanon. "We're in an emergency situation."
Several children have been among the eight killed and 38 wounded by cluster bomb explosions since the ceasefire began on August 14, according to Lebanese military figures.
On Wednesday three Lebanese bomb disposal experts were also killed by a cluster bomb in the village of Tebnin, some 15 kilometres from the Israeli border.
185 cluster bomb sites have been found so far by assessment teams racing against a tide of displaced people scrambling to return to their stricken villages.
New ones are being discovered each day as assessment teams push deeper into Lebanon.
Hundreds of Israeli artillery shells containing nearly 200 explosive rounds each were fired into southern Lebanon during the fighting.
At each impact zone, hundreds of tiny bomblets burst from the shells, creating a huge killing field of shrapnel.
But the UN estimates that a dangerously high percentage of these failed to explode, leaving their targets strewn with deadly sub-munitions.
"Not all of these, a majority maybe, failed to go off," Farran said, adding that those intact bomblets are hard to find amid the rubble, and when they are spotted, "people assume that because of their small size that they are harmless".
According to Human Rights Watch military analyst Marc Garlasco, leaves "minefields in peoples' homes".
In response to criticism of cluster bombs the Israeli military said that "all the weapons and munitions used by the Israeli Defence Forces are legal under international law, and their use conforms to international standards."