In self-defense, according to US government and media: "According to witnesses and photographs from the scene of the worst incident, an Israeli missile incinerated a car and a small truck full of families leaving their Lebanese border village of Marwaheen near Tyre after the Israeli army used loudhailers to tell residents they had just hours to go. Pictures showed charred bodies of children strewn across the road.UN peacekeepers recovered the bodies. Half the passengers were children or teenagers, according to medical sources."