Rights group, bitter Lebanese point fingers

No comfort to some
The findings did little to cheer some victims. Mohammed Abdullah was interviewed by the group about the deaths of his wife and two of his children, but he said it brings him no closer to what he wants — to see Israeli officials put on trial.

"What's the use?" he said. "They come and listen to us, but nothing happens. It's just talk. We're not getting anything out of it."

His wife, Zahra, was among hundreds of residents fleeing the border village of Marwaheen on July 15, 2006, after Israel told them to evacuate within two hours or face bombardment.

Zahra, 52, and her four children crowded into a Toyota pickup truck and headed out in a convoy headed for the coastal city of Tyre. But a few miles out of town, their truck broke down alongside another vehicle of fleeing refugees.

Zahra, holding her 6-year-old son Hadi in her lap, called out to her children to jump out of the truck. "Get out quickly. We'll walk to Tyre," she told them, according to her surviving children — 11-year-old Marwa and 15-year-old Wissam.

At that moment, a missile hit the truck, wounding Wissam in the thigh. An Israeli helicopter then opened fire with several missiles and machine guns at the two vehicles, Marwa and Wissam told AP. Zahra, Hadi and their 13-year-old sister Mirna were killed.

In its report Thursday, Human Rights Watch said the attack's final toll was 23 dead, including children.

Abdullah, 53, who was in Beirut at the time of the strike, has turned his apartment in the Lebanese capital into a shrine for his dead wife and children.

"We have rights, you know. Israel devoured our innocent children for no reason whatsoever," said Abdallah. "Look at this young child," he said, pointing at a framed photo of Hadi, laughing into the camera. "Why kill him?"

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