Civilian Casualties

2 – 4

(1–2 children1 man)

Russian Military

مخيم المغاز, Maghazi camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

In the evening of Tuesday, October 24th 2023, between six and ten civilians including four children and one woman were killed, and dozens were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike that hit a bakery in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. In a post on Facebook, Saeed al-Asar stated that “planes bombed

Summary

6 – 10

(4 children1 woman1 man)

12–24

Impact

6 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

LOCATION

Akashat, Al Anbar, Iraq

Local press and other sources reported on the death of three civilians, all from the same family, in airstrikes on Al Rutba, 420 km west of Baghdad. According to Amad Al-Dulaimi, the mayor of Ar Rutba, the family was killed following a bomb dropped by an unknown aircraft. Sahafaty News also quoted the mayor who

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

تدمر, Palmyra, Homs, Syria

LOCATION

Between two and four civilians including up to two children were killed in airstrikes on Palmyra, according to local sources – though reports are conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. The Violations Documentation Center said that two adult male non-combatants died as a result of Russia shelling.

Summary

(0–2 children1 woman2 men)

3 – 5

3 named

حي الجنينة، رفح, Al Geneina neighborhood, Rafah, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 8:56 AM on Friday, October 13th 2023, three houses, among them a house of the Al-Khayyat family, located in the Al Geneina neighborhood of Rafah, Gaza Strip, were destroyed in an alleged Israeli airstrike, killing at least 16 civilians, including four women, eight children, and an infant boy, and injuring a number of

Summary

16 – 18

(9 children4 women3 men)

Impact

17 named, 1 familiy identified

حي ‏المرجة‬, Marjah (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Up to five civilians died and 16 were injured in a Russian or regime attack on Marja. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said three civilians died as a result of Russian strikes. LCCSY also blamed Russia, putting the death toll at four. But the Syrian Mirror said the regime was responsible, reporting that four

Summary

3 – 5

شارع الثلاثيني, Al Thalatheini Street, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 9:46 PM on Thursday, October 19th 2023, a number of civilians were injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al-Nabih family house on Al Thalatheini Street in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. At 9:46 PM on October 19, the Palestinian Press Agency (Safa PS) reported “injuries as a result of

Summary

Unknown

U'boor district of Anbar, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

A single report from Yaqein claimed the US-led Coalition had conducted an intensive aerial bombardment resulting in 200 civilians killed and injured within a 48 hour period. The specifics of the civilian casualties, including the toll and identity is currently unknown. Yaqein described indiscriminate bombing by the warplanes of the international coalition aircraft, asserting that

Summary

50 – 100

50–100

خان الشيح‬, Khan al Sheikh, Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported airstrikes targeted the Palestinian refugee camp Khan al-Sheikh, leading to the death of at least six civilians including one child and one woman. Sources were conflicted as to whether Russia or the Syrian regime were to blame for the attacks. The highest death toll was given by Radar News, who reported eight

Summary

6 – 8

(1 child1 woman)

2–12

6 named

مخيم أهل سراقب في قرية الحمامة, Ahel Saraqeb camp in Al-Hamamah village, Jisr-al-Shoughour, Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

During the morning of Tuesday, October 24, 2023, an alleged Russian airstrike reportedly killed six civilians, including three women, one of whom was pregnant, and at least two children, and injured up to 10 civilians in the Ahel Saraqeb camp for displaced people located on the outskirts of the village of Al-Hamamah in the Jisr

Summary

(2 children3 women)

5–10

Russian Military

10 named, 1 familiy identified

LOCATION

Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

Two civilians, a wife and husband were reported killed following airstrikes on the city of Raqqa. The exact location within the city is currently unknown. Three out of five sources blamed the Coalition, the other two referred to an “aerial bombardment”, without identifying the culprit. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights commented that the incident

Summary

(1 woman1 man)

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

LOCATION

Local media reported that up to four civilians died and several more were injured in an airstrike on Deir Ezzor – though it was unclear whether Russia or the Syrian regime were to blame. According to one source, Al Jisrtv, ISIS mortars also hit the governorate on this day. The Syrian News Network reported that

Summary

1 – 4

(0–1 children)

0–2

قرية شعالة, Sha’ale ( Shaala) village, Al-Shahba District, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

In the afternoon of Wednesday, January 17th, 2024, an alleged Turkish artillery strike on the Shaala (Sha’ale) village in Al-Shahba District in Aleppo’s northern countryside, Syria, injured three civilians, among them a woman and a child. Multiple sources, including Afrin News, Fox Press, SOHR, and others, reported that the artillery bombardment attributed to the Turkish

Summary

Unknown

Turkish Military

3 named, 1 familiy identified

سعلو, Deir Ez-Zor, Sa'alu, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

One female civilian, died in an alleged airstrike on the village of Sa’alu, according to local media. The US-led Coalition and Russia were both cited as culprit, amongst multiple references to unidentified aircraft. According to Qasioun, the Coalition bombed Sa’alu as part of an aerial offensive that targeted multiple villages in the east of Deir

Summary

(1 woman)

US-led Coalition, Russian Military

1 named

كفر تخاريم, Kafr Takharim, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians – both children – were reported killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Takharim, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and others. Salqeen’s co-ordinating committee alleged that Russia used cluster munitions in the attack. A field investigation by Al Jazeera English interviewed a child eyewitness badly injured in the event: “I

Summary

(2 children)

4–10

Russian Military

حي النصر, Al-Nasr neighbourhood, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the evening of Monday, November 6th, 2023, journalist Muhammad Ghanem Tawfiq Al-Jaja was killed after an alleged Israeli airstrike hit his family home in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood in Gaza City. The alleged strike killed 12 other members of the Al-Jaja family, including four children and five women, one of whom was pregnant, and injured

Summary

(4 children5 women4 men)

13 named, 1 familiy identified

بطمة, Al Butma near Huwaija, Kirkuk, Iraq

LOCATION

Local media reported airstrikes in Huwaija south of Kirkuk province, during an Iraqi assault to capture the city from ISIS. Yagein alleged the US-led Coalition was responsible and cited dead and wounded following the raids. Alzab made a plea to ISF: We hope the security forces ascertain the proper coordinates of their goals in order to

Summary

البوليل, Al Buliyal, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians including one child were killed in an alleged Russian airstrike on Al Buliyal, according to the Violations Documentation Centre. No reports on strikes on Al Buliyal have yet been found.

Summary

(1 child1 man)

بزابور, village Bazabour, southern countryside of Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On the morning of Friday, 17th November 2023, a number of civilians, including a woman, were injured as a result of artillery shelling allegedly perpetrated by Syrian regime forces and/or Russian military and/or Iranian military on the civilian homes in the village of Bazabour (alternatively spelled as Bzabour or Bazzabour), located in the southern countryside

Summary

Unknown

Russian Military, Syrian Regime, Iranian Military

الرقة‎ , Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians named as Abdul Fattah Abdul-Ali Al-Dali and Sufian al-Dali died reportedly due to airstrikes on Raqqah city. The sources did not name a culprit and referred only to “bombing” and “shelling”. There is limited information presently available. Airwars will amend the entry when new information arises.

Summary

(1–2 men)

US-led Coalition, Unknown

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

LOCATION

One adult male civilian, died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Deir-ez Zor, according to the Violations Documentation Centre and the Syrian Network for Human Rights.

Summary

(1 man)

نزلة, Jabalia al-Nazla, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 8:16 AM on Friday, October 27, 2023, a house for the Nasr family in Jabalia al-Nazla neighbourhood was struck in an alleged Israeli airstrike, killing at least 18 identified civilians and injuring over 20. A correspondent of Gazan Shehab news agency was the first to report the incident at 8:16 AM, citing four

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

(4–12 children4–7 women2–7 men)

19 named, 1 familiy identified

حي الشيخ رضوان، مدينة غزة, Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At dawn on Monday, 23 October 2023, at least 15 identified members of the Sukkar family, including two women and eight children, were killed and others injured in an alleged Israeli bombing on the home of the Al-Ustad family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. The patriarch of the family, 72-year-old Riyad Sukkar

Summary

(8 children2 women5 men)

15 named, 1 familiy identified

الحديقة البيضا, Ar Raqqah: Hadika Al Bayda (White Garden), Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

It was reported that Radwan Kor Ahmed, in addition to two other civilians, died in al Hadika al Baidaa (the white garden) of Raqqah city following alleged US-led Coalition strikes, local sources said. The two sources tracked both blamed the US-led Coalition. While the deaths were reported on October 8th, sources said the victims had

Summary

حي الشعار, Al Shia'ar (Aleppo), Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Up to four civilians died and 10 more were wounded in an alleged airstrike on Al Shia’ar in Aleppo, according to local media – though sources were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Syrian regime. AMC reported that the Syrian regime killed four and wounded ten more. Other local

Summary

2 – 4

(1 man)

5–10

1 named

بئر النعجة, Bir Al-Na'ja area, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Monday, October 23rd, 2023, an alleged Israeli shelling hit the house of the Al-Sharif family in Bir al-Na’ja in Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza strip, killing at least two people and injuring four. Youssef Fayez Fares al-Sharif was killed, as was his nephew Abdullah Muhammed Fayez Al-Sharif. Youssef, an employee at Aziz Phone,

Summary

(1 child1 man)

3–4

برج قاية, Burj Qai', Homs, Syria

LOCATION

Nine named civilians including six children died and up to 11 more were injured in an airstrike on Burj Qai, according to local sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Syrian regime. The Syrian Human Rights Committee, Homs Media Centre, LCCSY and other local news

Summary

(6 children1 woman1 man)

7–11

Unknown, Syrian Regime

9 named, 2 families identified

الجامع الأبيض في مخيم الشاطئ، مدينة غزة, White Mosque, Al-Shati Camp, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Around noon on Saturday, July 13th, 2024, a minimum of nineteen identified civilians, at least two of whom were children, as well as an individual whose civilian status is currently contested, and two militants, including the commander of the al-Aqsa Brigades Ezz El Din Zaki Akila, were killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike. More than

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Religious

19 – 20

(2–3 children14–15 men)

Impact

19 named, 2 families identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

Belligerents reported killed

2–3

الدرعية, Diriyah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported one adult male was killed in an alleged airstrike. It blamed the Coalition for his death, and said he had died almost a month previously. Raqqa24, reporting the death on October 25th, said that the victim died “a few days ago” – possibly indicating that he had died from his

Summary

(1 man)