prisoners were put on trial, together with a third prisoner, Mahir Kourani, who was captured a few days later at the village of Shihin. The three were accused of a long series of criminal offenses, including "providing service to an illegal association," "weapons training in Iran and Lebanon without government permission," "conspiracy to commit a crime," and "conspiracy to commit murder" as well as participation in the kidnapping and attempted kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. Before the trial was concluded the three prisoners (including the fourth prisoner, Khadr Zaidan, who was captured at al-Ghandouriya) were released in the 2008 prisoner exchange. According to a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, only 100 of the 1300 houses in the town remained after the war. In spite of the widespread destruction in Ayta ash-Sha'b, there were surprisingly few civilian casualties. According to Lebanese sources only eight civilian residents were killed in the war. The main reason for this seems to have been that the great majority of the civilian population had been evacuated from the town early in the conflict. According to a Human Rights Watch report two of the civilian fatalities were actually killed outside the town. On 19 July Zaynab Salah Jawad, aged 7, and her brother Kawthar, 4, were killed when a 155 mm artillery shell struck the private home in the nearby Christian village of Rumaysh, where the family had sought refuge after being evacuated from Ayta ash-Sha'b. One man was killed 20 July by an missile fired by a helicopter. An elderly couple and their son in his forties were killed the day after when their home was destroyed by an air strike. The IDF announced that 28 Israeli soldiers, five of them officers, were killed in 33 days of fighting in and around the town. Five of them died in the illfated rescue attempt at the border on 12 July, thirteen fell inside the town of Ayta and ten were killed in the nearby village of Dibil). Islamic Resistance fatalities The Municipality of Ayta ash-Sha’b published the following casualty list. Fighters from Ayta ash-Sha’b al-Sayyid Yousuf Muhammad as-Sayyid Muhammad Ni’ma Rida Muhammad Kamal Surour Younis Ya’qoub Surour Shadi Hani Sa’d Muhammad Mousa Surour Wajeeh Muhammad Tuhaini al-Sayyid Hisham Muhsin Murtada Fighters from other Lebanese localities Hassan Qa’iq Ali Abdul-Muhsin Khalil Hasan Muhammad Muhsin Fighters from Ayta ash-Sha’b killed in other battles of 2006 war Commander