The Israeli army cut off electricity and water supply to West Beirut, depriving at least 300,000 civilians of water and electricity for about three months.[18] The MacBride Commission published a report in 1983 which said that the scale of the destruction showed that the Israeli Army had blanket-bombed areas instead of attacking defined targets.[19][18] Their bombardment of residential neighborhoods of West Beirut was extensive, and there was widespread destruction of civilian properties.[18] In cases of hospital destruction the commission said there were no weapons or ammunition in the establishments, yet the Gaza hospital was bombed heavily for three hours.[18]