"Meanwhile, in a report on the devastating Israeli attack on Sunday on the village of Qana, New York-based Human Rights Watch said its re-examination of showed 28 people had died, half the number initially reported by Lebanese organisations. Thirteen were still missing.

Officials in the Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defence Corps reached the same conclusion – that only 28 people died. George Kitane, head of Lebanese Red Cross paramedics, said 19 children were among the dead."