Human Rights Watch has issued a new report on last year’s Israel-Lebanon war. The group determined that indiscriminate airstrikes by the Israeli military caused most of the over 900 civilian deaths in Lebanon. Human Rights Watch said Israeli warplanes repeatedly targeted moving vehicles that turned out to be carrying only civilians trying to flee the conflict.

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch: “The Israeli government’s claim that civilian deaths in southern Lebanon were due mainly to Hezbollah hiding behind civilians is false. Mark Regev of the Foreign Ministry was the latest Israeli official to put forward that claim. You could read about it in the Jerusalem Post this morning. He said, you know, that it was all because Hezbollah was hiding behind civilians. He’s making that up. That is in no sense the major reason why civilians died.”

Kenneth Roth also criticized Hezbollah’s tactics during the war.