Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has released a major report saying Israel has systematically failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians in its attack on Lebanon. Human Rights Watch says some of these attacks constitute war crimes. The report analyzes nearly two dozen strikes that killed one hundred fifty three civilians — almost half of them children. Human Rights Watch Executive director Kenneth Roth said: “The pattern of attacks shows the Israeli military’s disturbing disregard for the lives of Lebanese civilians… In the many cases of civilian deaths examined by Human Rights Watch, the location of Hezbollah troops and arms had nothing to do with the deaths because there was no Hezbollah around.”