A/HRC/2/7 page 26 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Jihad al-Bina (“Struggle to Reconstruct”) and others. It also visited hospitals in both Lebanon and Israel. 2 Cited in the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701(2006) (S/2006/730), para. 14. 3 See http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/english/F/Main/index.asp?, as of 26 September 2006. 4 UNICEF, Lebanese Situation Report for 1-8 September 2006. 5 Information provided by the Government of Israel. 6 The most commonly cited figures, appearing in news reports and reports by NGOs, are those disseminated by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs which indicate that “6,000 homes were hit, 300,000 residents displaced and more than a million were forced to live in shelters.” See http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+from+Lebanon+Hizbullah/Hizbullah+attack+in+northern+Israel+and+Israels+response+12-Jul-2006.htm. According to a report by the Police North District submitted to the mission, however, the killed civilians numbered 52, the seriously injured 39, the moderately injured 51 and the lightly injured 770, while an additional 1,466 persons were taken to hospital and treated for shock. With regard to the number of persons forced to live in shelters, the mission’s assumption is that the figure of “more than 1 million” provided by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs covers every person who at any time during the month-long conflict took refuge in a shelter. 7 This a matter with which the Security Council is seized. The the Presidential Statement issued by the Council (S/PRST/2006/34) which called upon “the Government of Israel to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into this incident”. 8 These include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). In addition, Israel has ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (CRC-OP-AC). 9 International Court of Justice, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, advisory opinion of 8 July 1996, I.C.J. Reports 1996 (I), p. 226, at p. 240, para. 25; Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, advisory opinion of 9 July 2004, I.C.J. Reports 2004, para. 106; Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), I.C.J. Reports 2005, para. 219 (finding substantive violations of human rights law during an armed conflict). Affirmations to the contrary by Israel are not persuasive. See concluding observations of the Human Rights