Civilian Casualties

Impact

Syrian Regime, Russian Military, Iranian Military

عبسان الجديده, Abasan Al-Jadida, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Thursday October 19th, 2023, four brothers were killed as a result of an alleged Israeli bombing on a house belonging to the Abu ‘Anzah family in New Abasan/Abasan Al-Jadida, east of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip. Local sources including the Palestinian news agency, Safa, and Quds news agency reported that a number of people had

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Infrastructure

Residential

(4 men)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Town

حمرة بلاسم, Hamra Blassem, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Three named civilians died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Hamra Blassem, according to local media. Smart News reported that there were clashes at the village that day between ISIL and advancing SDF forces. Al Raqqa Truth named three victims. The Syrian Network for Human Rights also put the death toll at three – and

Summary

الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

The ISIS propaganda outlet Al A’amaq reported that 22 civilians were killed and 53 injured as a result of Turkish artillery shelling and airstrike in Al Bab, Syria. It wrote: “22 dead and 53 injured among the residents of Al Bab who fell over the last two days following Turkish artillery and aerial bombardment.” There

Summary

Turkish Military

بالقرب من مستشفى الصداقة التركي في مدينة غزة, Vicinity of Turkish Friendship Hospital, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 30th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital just south of Gaza City. It is unclear whether injuries occurred directly from the strike. While Shehab Agency said civilians were wounded, MSF reported “no patients were harmed.” The strike nevertheless put great strain on the hospital and patients’ well-being, ultimately reportedly

Summary

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

0–2

Causes of injury / death

Impact

السمرة, Raqqa al Samra, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian woman was reportedly killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes in Samra village, east of Raqqa city. The woman was named as Siham al Abd al Zai’t by al Raqqa Truth. According to Thoar al Raqqa, the strikes took place at midnight. Three sources alleged that the Coalition was responsible for the strikes, which reportedly

Summary

(1 woman)

أحرص , Ihress, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to Rumaf, “a whole family was seriously injured by the indiscriminate Turkish shelling of the residents of Ihress village. They were also transferred to the hospital.” YPG Press reported: “The Turkish occupation army and its mercenaries also attacked the liberated villages in al-Shahba areas. Names of the villages are Tal Rifat, Harbal, Sheikh Issa,

Summary

Turkish Military

3 named, 1 familiy identified

تفتناز, Taftanaz, east of Idlib, Syria, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Shortly before 12:20 PM on Tuesday, 7th November 2023, a civilian man was killed and five civilians, including at least two children, were injured, as a result of the alleged missile strikes perpetrated by the Syrian regime forces and/or the Russian military and/or Iranian military that hit a civilian car and civilian homes in the

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Infrastructure

Residential

(1 man)

Russian Military, Syrian Regime, Iranian Military

3 named

LOCATION

Kadiran, Raqqa, Syria

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on April 1st 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on social media claims of civilian harm “near Raqqa, Iraq”. According to the Coalition report, “108. May 22, 2017, near Raqqah, Syria, via social media report: After a review of available information it was assessed

Summary

LOCATION

حلب, Aleppo, Syria

One adult civilian died and three children were reported wounded in an airstrike on Aleppo, according to local sources. The VDC named a victim as Ahmad Abd al-Kareem al-Shaikh and blamed Russia. A Tweet by Ahat Watan said: “Young Ahmed Abdul Karim Sheikh, another martyr, God willing, was killed by the criminal Russian airstrike this

Summary

(1 man)

بالقرب من مصنع السمن، الزيتون، مدينة غزة, Vicinity of Ghee Factory, Al Zaytoun Neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At least ten civilians were reportedly killed and many others injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike which hit the home of Abu Raed Yassin located opposite a ghee factory in the Al Zaytoun neighbourhood southeast of Gaza City, early on the morning of Friday 27th October 2023. Multiple sources, including the Ramallah-based Palestinian news agency

Summary

5–10

رطلة, Ratlah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

At least 17 civilians – reportedly displaced persons – were killed when buses transporting them were hit by Coalition airstrikes according to local reports. The Syrian Observatory reported that 18 people were killed in Coalition airstrikes in the vicinity of al-Kasrat, of whom at least 10 members of ISIS. The Observatory said that some attacks

Summary

8 – 20

(2 children2 women)

حريتان, Hraytan, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

The Shaam News Network reported on alleged Russian raids with warplanes and helicopters across Aleppo and its surrounding countryside. It said that this coincided with “violent artillery shelling“, killing one civilian in the Hraytan neighbourhood. Anadanmedia, Abdullahzaidan, Jisr TV, Shahba Press, Qasioun and Radio Akul all blamed Russia.

Summary

شارع المدرسة، حي الأمل، خان يونس, Al-Madrasa Street, Al-Amal neighbourhood, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 3 PM on Monday, October 30th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the apartment of the Shakshak family, injuring at least eight civilians, most of them children, and rendering the building uninhabitable. Multiple sources reported “injuries” without specifying a toll. The strike occurred on Al-Madrasa Street in the Al-Amal neighbourhood, west of Khan

Summary

Apartment Building, IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

Exact location (via Airwars)

بقرص, Bokros, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

The Coalition reportedly struck an ISIL weapons depot in the Al Ta’as area of Bokros town. Sources said that member of ISIL were killed – however only one report mentioned civilian casualties. Sharqiya Voice reported that there were aftershocks following an air raid (but didn’t say who carried it out), and an explosion which “shook

Summary

الموحسن, Muhassan, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Five civilians including two or three women and one child died in an alleged Russian airstrike on Muhassan, according to local sources. Deir Ezzor is Being Slaughtered Silently named two female victims and alleged “they were killed in Russian Raids”. Gulfeyes named two additional victims (though did not identify the warplanes responsible). Additionally, LCCSY reported on June 11th that

Summary

(1 child2–3 women1 man)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

شقة سكنية بالقرب من بركة ابو راشد، مخيم جباليا, Vicinity of Birkat Abu Rashid, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On 1 November 2023, a number of people were reportedly killed and injured when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the home of the Ghabayen family near Birkat Abu Rashid in the middle of the Jabalia refugee camp. Shehab News Agency reported that most of the casualties from the strike were displaced persons and that they

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

2–4

Exact location (via Airwars)

حطين, Hitten farm, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Up to eight civilians from several families died at Hitteen farm, local media reported. While most sources blamed a Coalition airstrike, one source said that a landmine was responsible for the deaths. Al Hassaka Rasd reported three members of the same family died in an alleged Coalition airstrike near Hitten farm. According to RFS, “Five

Summary

3 – 8

(2–4 children1 woman)

US-led Coalition, Unknown

3 named, 1 familiy identified

‏الغوز‬, Al Ghouz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A family of seven civilians died in an airstrike on the village of Al ghouz, according to local sources – though reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of Russia or the Coalition. Aleppo 24 reported that a suspected Russian cluster bomb raid was responsible. Other sources, including Al Mukhtassar, @ALAMAWI and Nabd Syria all

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

Unknown, US-led Coalition

محافظة دير البلح, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 2nd 2023, 48-year-old Iyad Tayeh Jamil Matar, a journalist for Al-Aqsa TV and his mother, were reportedly killed in an alleged Israeli bombing on their home in the centrally-located Deir Al Balah Governorate of the Gaza Strip. The alleged Israeli bombing of their home was reported by a number of news sources and

Summary

(1 woman1 man)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Province/governorate

حي الدرعية, Dar'iya neighbourhood, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Initially, this incident was reported on by several sources as mass artillery shelling in the Dar’iya neighbourhood in the city of Raqqa, in which 6 to 12 civilians, including a maximum of 6 children and 2 women died and 9 were wounded. During investigations of this event for the April 2019 joint Airwars and Amnesty

Summary

(3 children5 women)

5 named, 1 familiy identified

السخنة, As Sukhnah, Homs, Syria

LOCATION

Between 15 and 19 civilians died in an alleged airstrikes on a public bus in Palmyra, according to local sources. According to Alarby, Homs Media Center and Shaam News, 15 died and 20 more were injured when Russian warplanes targeted a bus on the road from Palmyra to Raqqa. Eldorar reported that Russia continued to

Summary

15 – 19

(1 woman8 men)

9 named, 2 families identified

محيط بلدة الشيخ يوسف, the “‘Al-Qaswa”’ IDP camp in the vicinity of Sheikh Yousef area, Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

In the early morning and in the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th October 2023, ten airstrikes allegedly perpetrated by Russian forces on the “Al-Qaswa” IDP camp and civilian homes in the outskirts of the town of Sheikh Youssef in the western countryside of Idlib, Syria, injured four civilians, including two women and two girls. The Syrian

Summary

Causes of injury / death

المركز الثقافي, behind cultural center, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported that an unspecified number of civilians died in shelling on the area behind the cultural centre in Raqqa. Baladi referred to “heavy artillery shelling”, but was among other sources who didn’t identify the culprit. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently blamed the SDF. However, the Coalition has informed Airwars that only it was

Summary

دوما, Douma, Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

Three non-combatants including one child were reported killed and several injured in an airstrike on Douma – though reports were conflicted as to whether the attack was the work of Russia or the Assad regime. According to Al Jazeera Russia was responsible for the raid. But the Syrian Network blamed the regime, naming one child, Ibrahim

Summary

(1 child)

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

1 named

المخيم الجديد، مخيم النصيرات, New Camp, Nuseirat camp, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On June 21st 2024, civilians were killed and at least three civilians were injured, including two children – one of which was an infant, following an alleged Israeli artillery strike on a house in the New Camp, west of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. Al-Jazeera posted a video to their Facebook page

Summary

3–4

حويجة الصوفي, Hawijah al Swafi, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A civilian male was killed in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Raqqa, local sources reported. All five sources identified the victim by name like they all also alleged that the Coalition was responsible. The victim was reportedly killed in his home near Al Jaraksa mosque, Q_Alenezy reported via Twitter. On February 4th 2021 the US-led

Summary

كفر زيتة, Kafr Zita, Hama, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was reported killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Zita, according to the Union of Hama Rebels and the VDC. The victim has been named as Zamzam Abdo Al Laban from Kafr Zita Reporting remains confused, with multiple alleged Russian airstrikes on Kafr Zita between December 9th and 12th which resulted in a

Summary

(1 man)

منطقة بئر النعجة، مدينة غزة, Al Shati camp, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 15:27 on Friday, June 21, 2024, ten civilians belonging to the Salah and Abu Sultan families, including two women and two children, were reportedly killed and up to 20 others were wounded in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip. The attack hit a house belonging to the Salah family in the

Summary

(2 children2 women6 men)

17–20

10 named, 2 families identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Neighbourhood/area