Civilian Casualties

Салтівка, Saltivka, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On April 4th, 2022, suspected Russian artillery fired upon Saltivka in Kharkiv, killing one civilian and injuring two others. Reports from the Kharkiv Human Rights protection Group noted that Russian shells were fired upon residential areas with one shell landing on the roof of a high-rise building in the Saltivka section of Kharkiv. Telegram user

Summary

Russian Military

عقيربات, Akeirbat, Hama, Syria

LOCATION

On January 21, 2017, local media sources reported that one child died and several other civilians were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on Akeirbat in the countryside in the east of the Hama region in Syria. No further details are currently available.

Summary

(1 child)

Russian Military

الميدان, Mosul, Medan, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

According to local residents and the recently formed Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, up to 80 civilians died when heavy airstrikes and shelling destroyed multiple houses in Meydan neighbourhood in Old Mosul. According to Iraqi Spring Media Centre, 20 houses were destroyed. It spoke of “dozens of bodies” under the rubble. Activists and aid workers

Summary

40 – 80

12–24

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

Чугуїв, Chuhuiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

Sources reported two civilians killed, a 38 year old man and 63 year old woman and five others injured according when Chuguiv was hit by alleged Russian shelling at night on April 4 2022. The attack resulted in the total destruction of one private house and damage to a multi-story residential building opposite. Later reporting

Summary

(1 woman1 man)

بيت لاهيا, Beit Lahia, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 6:48 AM on Thursday, October 26, 2023, at least one man was killed and a number of other civilians were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Abu al-Jadaran (Al-Jidyan) roundabout area of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. At 7:13 am, the Palestinian Press Agency (Safa.ps) reported “a number of

Summary

Немишлянський район, Nemyshlyanskyi district, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On April 18th 2022, alleged Russian forces shelled a residential area of Nemyshlyanskyi district in Kharkiv. Local reports listed three civilian fatalities, including an elderly woman, and four civilians were wounded, including a 17 year old. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, through Channel 24, reported that Russian forces struck several residential buildings, resulting in

Summary

(1 woman2 men)

Russian Military

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

LOCATION

On Sunday May 12th 2024, Dr Safia Hamdan was reportedly killed by an alleged Israeli drone strike at the entrance to Azbet Malin in Jabalia, northern Gaza. A colleague of Dr Safia’s, Eid Sabah, posted to Facebook mourning the loss of Dr Safia Hamdan and reporting that they were killed by a “Zanana” missile. A

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

حي التنك, Mosul, Tanak, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A total of 21 civilians were reported killed in airstrikes on homes in the Al Tanak area of Mosul. On June 11th, Airwars’ Iraq researcher met with two survivors. Our field notes state: “Airwars researcher based in Baghdad met on June 11th 2017 two witnesses (XX and YY) saying two entire families were killed when

Summary

(4 children4 women)

Харківський район, Kharkivskyi district, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On May 8th 2022, the Russian Military allegedly shelled villages in the Kharkiv district of the Kharkiv region, including Tsyrkuny killing one person. The head of the Kharkiv regional military administration Oleh Syniehubov noted that one person died in Tsyrkuny on Telegram and Facebook. His post was quoted in news sources like Suspilne and Zakhid

Summary

كفرتعال, Kafar Taal, west of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

During the morning of Thursday, November 2nd, 2023, an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime artillery shelling on agricultural lands in the village of Kafar Taal, west of Aleppo, Syria, killed a woman and injured at least two civilians, including a woman and 70-year-old man, while they were harvesting olives. Several sources, including the Syrian Civil

Summary

(1 woman)

2–3

Syrian Regime, Russian Military

1 named

باب لكش, Mosul, Bab Laksh, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Al Jazeera reported that four civilians were killed and three were injured after mortars hit residential houses in Bab Lakash neighbourhood in Old Mosul. Sources did not say who was responsible for the mortar shelling, though Al Jazeera noted that the Bab Laksh district had faced “several days of armed confrontations by Iraqi forces trying

Summary

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

Дергачі, Derhachi, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

During the second reported Russian shelling of the village of Derhachi on May 12th, two medics were injured. Kharkiv Today reported that a total of two civilians were killed and four were wounded, including two medics. Two civilian deaths and two injuries were accounted for in RUK0230 as occurring during the first shelling of the

Summary

Unknown

منزل عائلة سويلم في حي الفالوجا شمال قطاع غزة, Sweilem family residence in the Al Faluga neighborhood, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Multiple members of the Sweilem family were reportedly killed after an alleged Israeli airstrike hit their home in the Al Faluga neighborhood of the Northern Gaza Strip on 23 October, 2023. Initially reported by Safa Press Service at 11:58 PM, the strike resulted in at least nine deaths, including four women and two children. 83-year-old

Summary

(2 children4 women3 men)

9 named, 1 familiy identified

كفرعويد, Kafr Aweed, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

One man, identified by sources as Suleiman Muhammad al-Saleem, was killed on May 15th 2023 after artillery shelling attributed to both the Syrian regime and Russian forces hit the village of Kafr Aweed in the southern countryside of Idlib according to local media outlets and the Syrian Civil Defence. Initial reports from the Syrian Civil

Summary

Syrian Regime, Russian Military

1 named

أم الرمان, A water well “Al-Mukaramah” located in “Bir Al-Kharib”, or “Al-Kharib”, near the village of Umm Al-Rumman, Al Suwayda, Syria

LOCATION

In the evening/night of Thursday, January 4th, 2024, at least one civilians, a 50-year-old father of two children, was killed by an alleged Jordanian airstrike on Bir Al-Kharib south of the village of Umm al-Rumman in the southern countryside of Al-Suwayda, Syria. Reportedly, Hammoud Iyas Al-Aqel (Abu Laith) from Jabal al-Arab was killed during his night

Summary

1 – 3

Impact

الرقة‎, Fardous, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians died and four were wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Raqqa’s Fardous neighbourhood, according to the Smart News Agency. However the Coalition did not report any strikes on the city that day. According to Smart, “One of the sources pointed out that the [likely Coalition] aircraft targeted al-Fardous neighborhood in the city

Summary

شارع حامد, Hamid Street, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the morning of Tuesday, October 31st, 2023, at least 24 civilians, including at least two women and at least four children, were reportedly killed and a large number of civilians were reportedly injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike bombed an entire residential block in the al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City, including the Abu

Summary

(4 children2 women14 men)

12–24

Impact

22 named, 6 families identified

ريحانة, Rayhana, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

Two local sources reported that nine civilians were killed and others injured after Coalition airstrikes allegedly hit Rayhana village near Anah, in Anbar province. The exact number of wounded was not determined. Yaqein placed the village 210 km west of Ramadi.

Summary

مدارس أبو حميصة مخيم البريج, Abu Hamisa School, Al Bureij Camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 2nd 2023, two children were killed in an alleged airstrike on the UNRWA-affiliated Abu Hamisa School in Al Bureij Camp, North Gaza. The deceased were identified as 16-year-old Fathi Muhammad Omar al-Jarisi and Yaffa Basel al-Shimaly. Fathi’s death was announced by Khamis Hussein, an employee of the Palestine Benevolent Obliterated Association, on Facebook.

Summary

(2 children)

Impact

2 named

Nearby landmark

الثورة, Mosul, Thawra, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In what appeared to be a separate event to the previous day’s casualties, Amnesty field investigators spoke with survivors of an April 20th strike on Al Thawra which killed two people and injured dozens more. Amnesty’s published report reads as follows: “According to “Mustafa”, a young father displaced to al-Thawra neighbourhood from elsewhere in west

Summary

بني سهيلا, Bani Suhaila, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 1, 2023, the house of a Palestinian man, Abu Hamid, and his family was bombed by alleged Israeli airstrikes, resulting in several reported injuries. The incident took place in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis, and has been reported on by over a dozen sources. Among these sources, the Palestinian or Safa Press

Summary

Unknown

دبسي عفنان, Debsi Afnan, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A number of local sources said that at least two people were killed and 14 more injured as a result of alleged Coalition airstrikes in the western Tabaqa countryside in the village of Debsi Afnan. A report from Smart News Agency two days after the incident said as many as seven people were killed and

Summary

2 – 7

بيت لاهيا, Beit Lahia, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

One civilian was killed and one other was injured in an alleged Israeli drone strike on the morning of July 15, 2024 in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza. The civilian confirmed to have been killed in the strike was a young man, 25-year-old Mustafa Saeb Banat. His grandfather was injured in the same strike. Safa News reported

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

دوار البانوراما, Panorama Roundabout, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

One child died and his father was wounded in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Raqqa, according to local media. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently reported that “an air raid targeted the new agriculture building near Al Panorama roundabout, killing several civilians and causing damage to private property.” According to a further report by RBSS a

Summary

(1 child)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

بالقرب من مدرسة بشير الريس، مدينة غزة, Vicinity of Bashir Al Rayes School, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At least two civilians were killed and at least 13 were injured following an alleged Israeli drone strike on a Gaza City municipal car near Al Rimal Clinic and Bashir Al Rayes School, where internally displaced people were sheltering, on Al Wahda Street on Monday, September 2, 2024. The names of those confirmed to have

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

2 – 9

(0–3 children2–9 men)

الثورة‎, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilian males were reported injured in Tabaqa. However how the injuries were sustained was not clear. The two men were said to be in stable condition after being transported from Tabaqa to a hospital in Hasaka, roughly 250km away.

Summary

قطاع غزة, the Gaza strip, Gaza strip, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 2, 2023, two children, 1-year-old Qusay Mohammad Hamza Abu Hilal and 6-year-old Hamza Mohammed Hamza Abu Hilal, were reportedly killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip. According to a Twitter post by @NourNaim88, the children were living in Turkey and were visiting Gaza with their mother, Areej, when the incident occurred.

Summary

(2 children)

2 named

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported the death of the entire family of Mohammad Yassin Mansour in an alleged Coalition airstrike on the gas factory north of Raqqa. According to Raqqa Post, a civilians from two families died and “two other young men” in an air died in an air raid on Raqqa – though the source didn’t say

Summary

(1 woman4 men)

4 named, 1 familiy identified