Civilian Casualties

in a remote area in the vicinity approximately 45 km northeast of Kismayo, Somalia

LOCATION

Two al-Shabaab militants were reportedly killed by declared US airstrikes approximately 45 km northeast of Kismayo in Somalia on March 2, 2024. US Africa Command (USAFRICOM) released a statement on March 4th declaring their involvement: “At the request of the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted a collective self-defense against the al Shabaab

Summary

Unknown

Belligerents reported killed

الجمهورية, Fallujah, Jamhouriya, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Aircraft bombed a primary school and a hospital in the Jamhouriya neighbourhood of Fallujah, reportedly killing up to 12 civilians and injuring 9. Local media reported that children were among the dead, including 11-year old Suhaib Jassem Batawi. According to Arabi21, the attack was the work of the Iraq Air Force and had killed three

Summary

3 – 12

(1–3 children)

4–9

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

Suspected belligerents

1 named

Bariire, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

AFRICOM reported that the previous day it had “conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab militants in the early morning hours of Jan. 2, 2018, approximately 50 kilometers west of the capital [Mogadishu]”. It added: “We assess no civilians were killed in this strike.” However, AFRICOM claimed that the airstrike killed “two terrorists” and destroyed “one vehicle-borne improvised

Summary

Belligerents reported killed

بالقرب من مسجد السقا، خان يونس, Vicinity of Al-Saqa Mosque, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the morning of Saturday, 14th October 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a house belonging to the Agha family located opposite Al-Saqa Mosque in the city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip killing at least 12 identified members of the extended Agha family, including three women and at least six children, and injuring

Summary

(6–7 children3 women3 men)

12 – 13

11–24

13 named, 3 families identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Geolocation

Exact location (via Airwars)

رأس العين, Road between Al I'dwania and Raja’an, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

A number of sources reported that a “civilian car” was struck “on the road between Al I’dwania and Raja’an,” near Al Hassakah, killing a family of four. Those killed were described as a man, his wife, mother and daughter – all from the village of Raja A’an in Ras al-Ain.

Summary

(1 child2 women1 man)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

LOCATION

Raqqa, Syria

In the Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, one civilian was reportedly as killed in alleged Coalition artillery strikes in Raqqa. Although Airwars assesses single sourced incidents as “weak”, researchers have assessed this incident “fair” due to the depth of material provided by Amnesty. The report stated that

Summary

(1 man)

حي المنارة، خانيونس, Al-Manara, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Wednesday, October 2, 2024, an alleged Israeli bombardment struck the Abu Taha family home in Al-Manara, Khan Younis, before dawn. The attack resulted in multiple casualties, including the deaths of nine family members: five women, two men, and two children. This incident was reported by various news agencies and shared by social media users.

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Infrastructure

Residential

12 – 15

(2 children5 women2 men)

9 named, 1 familiy identified

Geolocation

Neighbourhood/area

حطلة, Hatla, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

There were contradictory claims as to the status of Bassel Jassem Al Jirroh – reportedly killed in a Coalition or Assad regime strike at Hatla. While the Damascus Centre for Human Rights Studies and al-Natiq described him as a young male non-combatant killed at Al Aziziah Street, the pro-government Tishreen claimed that al-Jirroh was a

Summary

0 – 1

(0–1 men)

US-led Coalition, Syrian Regime

Suspected belligerents

LOCATION

حافلة تقل مواطنين في شارع 10 جنوبي مدينة غزة, A bus on Street 10, South Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

During the morning of October 29, 2023, a bus on Street 10 south of Gaza City was allegedly struck by an Israeli airstrike while carrying civilians resulting in “a number” of civilians killed and injured. A photo from Roya News showed the vehicle completely destroyed and burned with the windows broken and pieces of rubble

Summary

القائم, Al Qa'im, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

One civilian was reported killed and five injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike at the border town of al Qaim. Citing a ‘medical source in the city, al-Gharbiya eported that “a young man was killed as a result of the bombing was carried out by one of the [Coalition] warplanes on the neighborhoods of the

Summary

(1 man)

وادي الربيع, Wadi al Rabie, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

The doctor Jumua Ghouma was reported killed from indiscriminate shelling on Tajoura. The Times reported: “Another doctor, Jumua Ghouma, was killed while off-duty when a shell fell on his house.” Abdulrahman Ghummied said his home was in the Wadi al Rabie area of Tajoura. Khaled Sherif posted that he was the head of the laboratory

Summary

(1 man)

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

Suspected belligerents

1 named

كفرا, Kafra, Nabatieh, Lebanon

LOCATION

Four people were reported injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike on 29 September, 2024 in Kafra, Lebanon. The strike was reported to have hit the home of the late Mahmoud Sabiti Abu Mustafa, and “surrounding homes and shops”. Those injured were transported to the Tebnine Governmental Hospital; their identities remain unknown. Photographs shared by Civil

Summary

Commerce, Residential, Shop, Vehicle

Unknown

المصينعه, Al Mushainaah, Shabwa, Yemen

LOCATION

Five civilians and two off duty Yemen soldiers from two local families, all men, were reportedly killed by a US drone strike in or near Al Mushainaah village, in the Saeed district of Shabwa governorate, at around midnight between January 26th-27th 2018. At the time of the strike, the men were reportedly searching for a

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Infrastructure

Car, Vehicle

5 – 7

(7 men)

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Known belligerent

US Forces

Known target

7 named, 2 families identified

Belligerents reported killed

مخيم بوريجي, Bureji camp, Deir al-Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 17, 2023, six-year-old Aya (Ayat) Muhammad Awni Abu Aoun and her five-year-old brother Abdullah Muhammad Awni Abu Aoun died in an alleged Israeli airstrike that impacted their home in the Gaza Strip. Though sources did not include a specific location for the strike, Facebook user Al-Bureij Gathering remembered the children as “beautiful martyrs of

Summary

(2 children)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

حمام العليل, Hamam al Alil, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Five non-combatants were reportedly killed and four more injured after an alleged Coalition airstrike hit a home at Hammam al-Alil. According to NINA, “international Coalition aircraft bombed residential neighborhoods in the Hamam al-Alil area, and the shelling resulted in the deaths of five civilians, including a child, and the wounding of four others.” A Daesh

Summary

(1 child)

الباغوز, Al Baghouz, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

In the final stages of the fight against ISIS in its last territorial stronghold in Al-Baghouz, alleged Coalition shelling killed at least 16 civilians in the evening of February 11th on the outskirts of the town, according to local sources. Monitors reported that among the victims were seven children, eight women and one elderly man,

Summary

(7 children8 women1 man)

Sixna area, rural Qandala district , Puntland, Somalia

LOCATION

Four civilians, two women and two children, were killed and at least one other, a child, and up to six others were injured by an alleged US drone/air strike in the Sixna area of the Qandala district of Puntland on 28 January, 2025. Those killed were from the Reer Yusuf Mohamud Salah family; amongst them

Summary

Agriculture, Livestock, Residential

(2 children2 women)

1–6

US Forces

2 named, 1 familiy identified

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

There were single-source claims that 19 civilians died in a Coalition airstrike on Mosul. Citing local residents, the National Iraqi News Agency claimed that “international coalition aircraft bombed residential compounds in the Hadbah area east of Mosul, killing 19 civilians including six women and four children, and wounding six others.” However Airwars’ own sources in

Summary

(4 children6 women)

الشعفة, Al Sha'afa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Between 20 and as many as 60 non-combatants died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Sha’afa, according to local media. A number of sources including Baladi News and the Syrian Unified Observatory, reported that the airstrikes hit both the towns of Al Sha’afa and Al Kashma, killing mostly civilians including women and children. According

Summary

(9–13 children8–12 women)

20 – 60

Agricultural Land, Agriculture

LOCATION

ذَمَار, Dhamar, Yemen

A farm worker was killed and three other farm workers were injured by alleged US airstrikes on a farm west of Dhamar City during the evening of April 8, 2025. Marib Press reported that the US carried out three airstrikes west of Dhamar City, which according to the Houthis hit a farm, wounding three people.

Summary

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

There were claims by some of a wedding convoy hit in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Raqqa on the evening of January 22nd. Al Jazeera instead said that “an unmanned drone targeted a car belonging to IS near Bab Baghadad east of the town.” The event, which took place in the Baghdad Bab neighbouorhood of

Summary

بلدة أبو الحسن, Abou Al Hasan town, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Alleged Coalition airstrikes occurred in Abou Al Hasan town. Step News reported that an unspecified number of civilians were killed and wounded, but did not however distinguish between this event and an incident in Hajin, also on November 23rd. All sources signified the alleged use of white phosphorous munitions. In its monthly civilian casualty report

Summary

1 – 2

1–2

حي الصبرة، مدينة غزة, Al-Sabra neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At dawn on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, a declared Israeli airstrike killed a prominent member of the Hamas’ political bureau and Head of the Emergency Committee of Hamas, Muhammad Daoud al-Jamasi, along with eight members of his family, including three women and four children, when the strike hit the home of the al-Jamasi family in

Summary

(4 children3 women2 men)

Known belligerent

9 named, 1 familiy identified

Geolocation

Neighbourhood/area

LOCATION

يت, Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq

Twelve civilians reportedly died when their homes were struck in alleged Coalition airstrikes at Hit – although no strikes were publicly declared in the near vicinity. According to local media, among those killed ‘in Coalition strikes’ were Hadi Hassan Jihad, Bashar Hadi Jihad and five other family members with several more wounded, near the secondary

Summary

(1 woman3 men)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

الشحيل, Al Shahil, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

In a three hour operation between midnight and dawn in the al Katef neighborhood in the city of Al Shahil, at least five people were killed. Most local sources that reported on the incident claimed the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were responsible, with air support from the International Coalition. According to the Syrian Network for

Summary

Airstrike, Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

6 – 8

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

1–2

Causes of injury / death

جرابلس, Jarablus, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, the Syrian Observatory, reported that “no less than 13 IS [fighters] were killed by aerial bombardment by the Coalition warplanes in Jarablus, in addition to four detainees were also killed during the same airstrikes.” The Observatory’s Arabic-language report said the detainees were carrying out as punishment duty the digging of trenches for

Summary

شارع رامبام ، كوخاف حتصفون ، عسقلان , Rambam St., Kochav Hatzafon, Ashkelon, Israel

LOCATION

Up to eight civilians, including two children, were reported injured when a rocket struck a residential apartment building on Rambam Street in the city of Ashkelon, southern Israel at 6am on May 11th, 2021. Sources differ regarding the number of civilians injured in the attack and the severity of their injuries. Amongst the injured were

Summary

Unknown

6–8

Known belligerent

Palestinian Militants

6 named, 1 familiy identified

أرشاف, Al Arshaf, Intersection of roads, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Up to ten civilians were reported killed in an alleged Coalition evening strike at Al Arshaf village on the outskirts of Ekhitrin town, in the northern Aleppo countryside. Syria Urgent initially said 6 civilians died – 4 women and two men – with another four injured “following an American raid.” The Syrian Observatory placed the

Summary

(3 children2–5 women3 men)

8 – 10

4–7

8 named, 1 familiy identified