A/HRC/24/46 Torture and other forms of ill-treatment Pro-Government forces 41. Following a negotiated exchange of 34 seriously injured armed group fighters for the bodies of two Hezbollah fighters on or around 8 June, the injured hors de combat fighters were beaten by Hezbollah members prior to their transfer to the Lebanese Red Crescent for medical treatment. Such conduct is in flagrant disregard for the protections accorded to the sick, wounded and hors de combat fighters from ill-treatment. Massacres and other unlawful killings 42. Civilians were killed in the indiscriminate shelling of Al-Qusayr and its surroundings. It has not been possible to determine, beyond the requisite standard of proof, the circumstances in which those killed by gunfire died. Given the fierce fighting that took place in Al-Qusayr, there is a strong possibility that those killed may have been caught in crossfire between the warring factions. There is no evidence, as yet, to indicate that fighters on either side were killed in circumstances that would have deemed those killings unlawful. Investigations are continuing. 39