Immediately after the raid, the IDF said ten "terrorists" had been killed, all of them armed and wearing bulletproof vests, and five Hezbollah members had been kidnapped during a "precise surgical raid" that resulted in "no IDF or civilian casualties". The operation was publicly applauded by military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz. Hezbollah said that the five people captured by Israel were civilians and not members of Hezbollah. The captives initially described by the IDF as "known Hizbullah gunmen" were later identified as civilians and released after 3 weeks. According to Human Rights Watch and Lebanese authorities most of the fatalities were civilians.