The Fares Scale of Injuries due to Cluster Munitions is an anatomical and neuropsychological classification method to identify and describe injury scales for victims of cluster munitions.
[1] The scale assesses the severity of injuries resulting from cluster munitions based on functional impairment.
[3] During the 2006 Lebanon War, it was estimated that "Israel rained as many as 4.6 million submunitions [of cluster munitions] across southern Lebanon in at least 962 separate strikes, the vast majority over the final three days of the war when Israel knew a settlement was imminent", almost one million of which remained unexploded.
[4] These unexploded ordnances continued to injure and kill civilians after the war ended.
Injuries were polytraumatic and often led to disability and significant neuropsychological effects.