HILLA, Iraq, April 2 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Five-year-old Nader should not have been out playing last night. He now sits on a hospital bed with a bandage covering one eye after stepping on an explosive south of Baghdad.

Nader's mother suddenly jumps to her feet to promptly remove from his mouth candy offered by sympathetic journalists.

"Don't give him anything to eat please. He has to undergo an operation on his right eye at any moment now," lamented the grieved mother.

"He may not be able to see again with his right eye."

But Nader went out to play the next day. He stepped on one of the dozens of bomblets scattered all over the area, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Nader's mother then pointed at the other beds in the hospital room where six other children were lying, with blood-stained bandages and severe bruises on their bodies.

"What did these little children do to the Americans? What did they do to (U.S. President George W). Bush," she cried.

"May God avenge these children by sending Bush a cluster bomb," she shouted, while raising open palms into the air.

Two-year-old Hussein Ali Abed has a frightening fixed gaze.

"Since the bombing, he has been like this," said his father. With tear-soaking eyes.

"His mother, my wife, died in the bombing when several bomblets landed on us during the night. So I really do not know what to do to get him out of the shock," he lamented.

At the end of the hospital room an elderly woman with bandages on her head and arms lies without moving, gazing at a two year-year-old screaming boy with severe bruises over all his naked body on the bed next to her.

"Hamida Abed lost 15 members of her family when these bomblets landed on her home. She lost all her children, their spouses and her grandchildren," said a nurse, before whispering: "She does not know this, yet."

Human rights groups from around the world have long protested the use of cluster bombs, which they say cause undue risks to civilians.

The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday, April 2, that U.S. forces had Tuesday, April 1, dropped on Iraq "for the first time in combat history" a new version of cluster bombs.