Civilian Casualties

(2–4 children1 woman7 men)

16 – 17

صلاح الدين, Salahuddin, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Up to 10 civilians including three named children from the same family died and as many as dozens more were wounded in an airstrike on Aleppo’s Salahudeen neighbourhood, according to local media. The majority of sources blamed Russia, though a report by Buraq media which cited the use of “explosive barrels” in the attack means

Summary

3 – 10

(3 children)

2–24

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

3 named, 1 familiy identified

جورة اللوت, خان يونس, Jourat al-Lout area, Khan Yunis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At dawn on Tuesday, October 17th 2023, between 23 and 27 members of the Sabah family including at least seven women, 10 children, and an infant were killed, and many others, including displaced civilians and at least five children, were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Sabah family home in the Jourat al-Lout

Summary

(11–13 children7–9 women3 men)

23 – 27

8–10

24 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Neighbourhood/area

حي بستان القصر, Bustan al Qasr (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

One female civilian died in an air or artillery strike on Bustan al-Qaser, according to local media – though sources didn’t apportion blame for the attack. According to @HalabTodayTV, there were both “air and artillery strikes” on the area. @ShahbaPress reported that a girl was killed and “several” other civilians wounded.

Summary

(0–1 children0–1 women)

Russian Military, Unknown

LOCATION

Al Sakhina, Homs, Syria

Six civilians including women and children died in an alleged Russia airstrike on a refugee camp in the al Sakhuna area, south of Palymyra, local media reported. According to the Step News Agency, “Russia’s military aircraft committed a new massacre against people in a camp for the displaced from the towns of Palmyra and al

Summary

(2 children2 women)

Russian Military

فنيجين, Fenijin, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

At least one man was killed, another person was injured, and four people were arrested in an alleged Coalition airstrike and Syrian Democratic Forces ground operation in Fenijin on November 8, 2021. The status of the man killed and the person injured as a civilian is contested by local sources. Zaman Al Wasl quoted local

Summary

Airstrike, Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

0 – 1

(0–1 men)

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

0–1

Causes of injury / death

Belligerents reported killed

0–1

Belligerents reported injured

0–1

الموصل‎, Mosul, Houses neighboring the Turkish Consulate, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Sources in the city claimed that an airstrike carried out at approximately 10pm in the vicinity of the Turkish consulate in Mosul had killed Ridwan Akram, his wife and their child. According to a commemorative Facebook page, the family had only recently returned after three months in Turkey when they died. While a number of

Summary

(1 child1 man)

كفرتخاريم, Kafr Takharim, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Local media reported that up to seven civilians – six of whom were named – including children and women died and dozens more were wounded in night-time airstrikes on Kafr Tkharim. The strikes reportedly hit a council building and a sports center. The majority of sources attributed this casualty event to Russia, though one report

Summary

6 – 7

(3 children4 women)

20–24

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

6 named, 2 families identified

مخيم النصيرات, Nuseirat camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 21, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike killed 34-year-old Islam Omar Al Ashqar, a Dutch citizen and wife of Palestinian journalist Khaled Al Ashqar, and injured Haya Al Ashqar and Sham Al Ashqar, Islam and Khaled’s daughters, and Umm Hadi Al Ashqar, Islam’s mother, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

Summary

(1 woman)

Impact

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Town

دير الزور‎, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Five civilian men were reported by a single source to have been killed in a coalition strike on the city of Dayr az Zawr. They were named by the VDC.

Summary

(5 men)

Mundbaith Refinery, Tal Abyad, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Up to 30 people, including civilian oilworkers and alleged ISIL militants, died in a night time strike on Mundbaith Refinery according to multiple reports. Ara noted that “The bombing also caused the breaking of glass in houses near the border including shops on the Turkish side, causing panic among the population, and the evacuation of

Summary

2 – 15

شارع المغربي في حي الصبرة مدينة غزة, Al Sabra neighborhood, Gaza city, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At least one man and his daughter were reportedly injured by a bombing on the morning of Wednesday, November 15th 2023, while standing on Al Moghrabi Street (also known as Moneer al-Rayees Street) in the Al Sabra neighbourhood, of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip. The father Bilal Al-Ashram reportedly died of his injuries

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

(1 man)

Denial of access to/destruction of objects indispensable to survival, Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Causes of injury / death

Israeli Military, Palestinian Militants

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

near al-Bo Omar, Syria, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

In the January 25th 2018 civilian casualty report, the Coalition reported that a civilian casualties allegation near al-Bo Omar had been assessed as non credible: “#1 Jan. 12, 2015, near al-Bo Omar, Syria via regional human rights group report. After a review of available information it was assessed that no Coalition strikes were conducted in

Summary

البوكمال, near Abu Kamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

In a previously unreported incident, in the US-led Coalition’s August 2018 report, it conceded it had injured one civilian during a raid on an ISIS “supply route” near Abu Kamal. The coordinates provided by the Coalition locate the incident East of the Euphrates river, in an area labelled Ash Shājilah (ناحية سوسة) on open source

Summary

بالقرب من مسجد الرضوان، الشيخ رضوان، مدينة غزة, Vicinity of Ar Ridwan Mosque, Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Sunday, October 22nd 2023, the home of the Abu Al-Omrain family in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, northern Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by an Israeli military aircraft, resulting in eleven civilian deaths and other injuries. Rabab Abu Hatab, in a post on Facebook, reported that the bombing destroyed not only the Abu Al-Omrain family home

Summary

(5 children2 women4 men)

11 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Exact location (via Airwars)

الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

According to Reuters, a Coalition airstrike caused significant casualties in Ar Rutbah: “Coalition planes bombed al-Rutba district, 385 km west of Baghdad, killing six Islamic State militants and 11 civilians, according to a source in the local hospital.” ARA News placed the civilian death toll from coalition strikes at Rutba at 10. In July 2017,

Summary

10 – 11

كفرلاته, Kafar Lata, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Before 7:11 AM on the morning of Saturday, October 7th, 2023, the village of Kafar Lata in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria, was hit by a missile bombardment attributed either to the Syrian regime forces and/or the Russian military and/or Iranian forces, resulting in the death of two children, and the injury of another

Summary

(2 children)

Russian Military, Syrian Regime, Iranian Military

3 named, 1 familiy identified

التوامة, Tawama, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to Al Jazeera and others, a Coalition strike on the al Nusra Front at al Tawama destroyed a number of civilian buildings, killing as many as seven inhabitants. Fifteen alleged militants – most described as ‘Turks’ – also died in the attack which reportedly struck two separate locations in the village. According to Sana

Summary

1 – 11

(1 child)

Southeast of Darusalaam, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

A US strike on al Shabaab fighters in the Lower Shabelle region also killed three civilians, Amnesty International later reported. Two US strikes took place in Somalia on November 12th, with one targeting al Shabaab and the other hitting Islamic State fighters, according to US Africa Command. The strikes killed “several fighters”, it said. The

Summary

(3 men)

Belligerents reported killed

0–3

نزل الطبيب نضال حجازي, House of Doctor Nidal Hijazi, Gaza Strip, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Tuesday October 24th 2023, at least one civilian, the mother of a Dr. Nidal Hijazi, was injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. Her son, Dr. Nidal Abdullah Hijazi was also stuck under the rubble and emerged from it to treat his mother at the hospital in his role as a

Summary

الرمادي, Ramadi city: eastern area, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq noted in January 2016 that two possible civilian casualty incidents had taken place in the vicinity of Ramadi on September 3rd of the previous year. The Coalition has confirmed carrying out strikes in the area on that day. According to UNAMI, “[an] airstrike reportedly hit a residential area

Summary

مخيم جباليا, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Injuries resulted from an alleged Israeli airstrike on a school near Abu Zatoun in Jabalia refugee camp on October 15, 2023. A Facebook post from Al Watan Voice quoted Al-Aqsa Radio which reported that “aircraft target a school near Abu Zatoun in the Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip, and a number of injuries

Summary

اطمه, Atimah, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A US airstrike on a Jaish al-Sunna ammunition depot in the night also killed at least eight non-combatants in the village of Atmeh, it was widely reported. According to accounts, a number of civilian homes were damaged or destroyed in secondary explosions. Graphic images showed significant damage at the scene. Five young girls were among

Summary

(6–7 children1–2 women)

4–12

11 named, 1 familiy identified

قصر بن غشير, Qasr Bin Gashir, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Othman Mesbah Akak was reportedly killed by indiscriminate artillery shelling on Qasr Bin Gashir. Riyadh Burshan said that the died from a shell falling on his house. Local reporting points at the GNA or the LNA as the perpetrator of the shelling.

Summary

(1 man)

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

1 named

منطقة بئر النعجة, Bir Al Naja area, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the afternoon of October 30, 2023, one person was killed and one person was severely injured by an alleged Israeli drone strike in the Bir Al Naja area in the northern Gaza Strip. The names of the casualties have not been made available; the injured person was said to be “critically” wounded. At 3:59

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A reported coalition airstrike on an ISIL IED factory [see CI109] injured ‘dozens’ of civilians, it was claimed, after a chemical cloud spread across local areas. Waradana cited Ghias Surja of the Nineveh Union of Kurdistan National Center as saying: “The lab was used by the criminal organization for terrorist activities against the innocent and

Summary

الشجرة, Al Shajra, Daraa, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported that alleged airstrikes struck a building in Al Shajra town which several sources referred to as an “Islamic Court” while others described it as the headquarters of the “Islamic Army of Khalid Bin Al-Walid” – a faction that has been accused of being associated with the “Islamic State”. Sources were conflicted as

Summary

(3 women)

US-led Coalition, Israeli Military

Suspected target

ISIS

Belligerents reported killed

13–20

مسجد بلال بن رباح, Bilal bin Rabah Mosque, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At dawn on Sunday the 29th of October, 2024 at least 13 civilians were killed when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit Bilal bin Rabah Mosque and several nearby homes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The bombardment, which hit Block C of the camp, reportedly injured dozens, a number of whom

Summary

(0–3 children2–3 women0–1 men)

12–24

Exact location (via Airwars)

الهول, Al Hawl, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilian men were reported killed when their vehicle was struck in a Coalition airstrike, according to reports. This incident is presently single source only with VDC naming the three men. In its July 2017 monthly report, the Coalition classed the event as non credible on grounds of proximity: “Oct. 31, 2015, near Al Hawl,

Summary

(3 men)