Civilian Casualties

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

LOCATION

دوار أبو رصاص في مخيم البريج, Vicinity of Abu Rasas roundabout, Al Bureij refugee camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

On Wednesday, October 25th 2023 an alleged Israeli aircraft bombed the home of the al-Mabhoub Family, killing at least four Palestinian children, including Siwar Ibrahim al-Mabhouh, aged five, and her brother Baraa Ibrahim al-Mabhouh, aged 14, and injuring dozens of others. Though other casualties occurred, the names of these victims have not yet been made

Summary

(4–5 children)

12–24

3 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

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

نبل و الزهراء, residential neighborhoods of Nubl and Al-Zahraa, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On the evening of Sunday, December 17th, 2023, the residential neighborhoods of the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahraa in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Syria, were struck by the artillery bombardment perpetrated by the Turkish affiliated militia Al-Fatah Al-Mubin, as a result of which between two to eight civilians were reportedly injured. According to SOHR,

Summary

Unknown

2–8

Known belligerent

Turkish Military

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

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

1 named

بالقرب من دوار السانية خانيونس, Vicinity of Sunniyya roundabout, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 12:23 AM on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, at least eight civilians were reportedly killed and a number of civilians were injured in the bombardment of a residential house of the Atim/Atem family located near the Sunniyya roundabout and Shabir bakery in the centre of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip. According to Safa PS, the

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Infrastructure

Residential

8 – 9

Israeli Military, Palestinian Militants

Nearby landmark

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

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)

رسم العوايد, Rasim Awaed, Hama, Syria

LOCATION

On July 31, 2017, three civilians were reportedly killed, and others were wounded, in alleged Russian and or Syrian regime raids in Rasim Awaed, near Akirbat town in Hama, according to local media. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame. Baladi News blamed the Syrian regime, while all others attributed blame to Russia.

Summary

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

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)

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)

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

LOCATION

Shortly before 5:09 PM on Thursday, October 19th, 2023, two 10-year-old girls were killed and a number of civilians were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the residential house of the Al-Houm family, located in Jabalia camp, Block 2, in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian news agency, Safa, several people were

Summary

(2 children)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

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

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

شركة توزيع كهرباء غزة، مدينة غزة, Gaza Electricity Distribution Company, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 29th 2023, up to nine civilians were killed, including at least four children, by an alleged Israeli airstrike which took place on the Al-Naffar family home in the Al Thalathini/Sabra Neighbourhood in Rafah, the Gaza strip. Ayman Kuhail posted that they had lost their cousin Hajj Noha Omar Kahil Al-Naffar (Umm Hisham, 62)

Summary

(4–5 children1 woman3 men)

8 – 9

8 named, 1 familiy identified

Nearby landmark

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

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

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

LOCATION

Shortly before 6:10 am on Sunday, 29th October, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Zuwaidi (Zweidi) family home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, injuring at least four civilians, including two children. Several media and news outlets reported the incident, citing several casualties. Shehab Agency and other news outlets shared photos depicting

Summary

Unknown

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

مخيم الشاطئ, Al Shati Camp, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At least 39 identified members of the al-Ghoul family, coming from at least three generations and including at least 12 women and 13 children, and up to more than 100 civilians were reportedly killed and dozens were wounded in an alleged Israeli airstrike on their multi-story family home in the al-Shati Refugee Camp in northern

Summary

Apartment Building, IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

(13 children12 women13 men)

39 – 101

12–24

46 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

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

شارع الحجة، مخيم جباليا, Al-Houja Street, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Wednesday, November 1, 2023, at least 19 civilians were killed and at least 11 were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a five-story house belonging to the Anbar family located near Al-Shaarawi’s barber shop, on al-Hoja Street, in Jabalia Camp, in North Gaza. Reportedly around 150 people were in the house at the

Summary

Apartment Building, IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

19 – 24

(1–3 children)

11–24

8 named, 2 families identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

أريحا , Ariha, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians were killed and up to 24 injured as a result of alleged Russian, Assadi and/or Iranian airstrikes on the town of Ariha on September 7th 2020. One civilian killed in the strike was named as Saeed Zidan Abu Yarub Al Zaidan. @seerij80 reported that he had just graduated from Idlib University and Fajr

Summary

1 – 2

6–24

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

LOCATION

الثورة‎, Al-Thawrah (Tabaqah), Raqqa, Syria

Between 10 and 16 civilians including one woman were killed and 30-35 injured in airstrikes on Tabaqa – though reports are conflicted as to whether the Coalition, Russia or the Assad regime carried out the attacks. However, the majority of the sources allege Russia was responsible. LCCSY, Syria 2011 and the Syrian Revolution all named

Summary

10 – 16

(1 woman)

30–35

مخيم البريج, Bureij camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly after midnight on Thursday, 12th of October, 2023, at least 25 identified civilians belonging to three different families, including a University professor, at least seven women and ten children, were killed and a large number of civilians were reportedly wounded in an alleged airstrike by the Israeli military on a four-story residential building belonging

Summary

(10–12 children7 women7 men)

25 – 26

12–24

Impact

27 named, 3 families identified

Belligerents reported killed

Town

0–1

مودية, Moudia, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

A night time precision strike reportedly carried out by the Yemeni air force or the US forces killed between two and nine militants in an air raid on a suspected terrorist training site in Abyan province on March 14, 2010. Al-Jazeera reported “Local residents told the Reuters news agency that as many as 20 civilians

Summary

US Forces, Yemeni Air Force

Suspected targets

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Other

Belligerents reported killed

District

2–9

Belligerents reported injured