Civilian Casualties

دوار الخربة، رفح, Vicinity of Khirbet Al Adas Junction, Rafah, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Around dawn on Thursday, October 19th 2023, the home of the Dhair family in Musabah area, near the Khirbet Al Adas junction, north of Rafah, the Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by Israeli military aircraft, resulting in at least 19 civilian fatalities, and injuring a number of others, including one victim who was seriously injured.

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19 – 23

(7 children6 women5 men)

19 named, 1 familiy identified

Nearby landmark

كفروما, Kafarouma, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

One person was killed and several civilians wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes on the town of Kafarouma, Idlib Governorate on December 16th, 2019, according to local sources. Iskenderun Arabic reported Russian aircraft struck the town four times between 20:38 and 20:55 on December 16th, 2019. According to the source, strikes on Kafarouma and the town

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2–4

الناصر, al Nasr, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Thursday, October 19th, 2023, two brothers, 39-year-old Khalil Ibrahim Abu Athrah and 33-year-old Moaz Ibrahim Abu Athrah, were reported killed after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al-Nasr neighbourhood, north of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Khalil, who worked as a cameraman for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, was remembered by his colleagues, who called

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(2 men)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

ميادين, Mayadeen, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

The Smart News Agency reported that “five civilians were killed and dozens were wounded” in an airstrike on Al Mayadin on August 21st. The source didn’t identify who carried out the strike but noted that “activists launched a campaign of solidarity with them [the victims]. They condemned the daily bombardment of the International Coalition aircraft,

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الطواطحة, Tawatha, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

One man was reportedly wounded after a water tanker in Al Tawatha village near Abu Kamal in the east of Deir Ezzor was allegedly struck by a Coalition airstrike. The man was said to be injured in the leg due to shrapnel exploding off the tanker. According to Baladi News, “Coalition aircraft targeted a pipeline

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الواقعة بين قرية الهلبة ومعر شمارين, area between al Hlubba village and Ma’ar Shamarin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A least one civilian, a journalist, was killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on the area between al Hlubba village and Ma’ar Shamarin on December 19, 2019. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Milad Ahmad al Fares, from al Hlubba village in the eastern suburbs of Idlib governorate, was killed in an alleged Russian airstrike

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مخيم النصيرات, Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 2:29 AM on Monday, October 23, 2023, at least twelve identified civilians, including four women and five children, were killed and many civilians were reportedly injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the al-Saafin family home located in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip. On the day of the alleged

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(5–6 children4–5 women2 men)

12 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

Vicinity of Kunyo Barrow, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

In retaliatory strikes against al Al Shabaab for a mass casualty bombing in Mogadishu a day earlier, the United States said that it had conducted three strikes against al Shbaab commanders, killing four people in total. This entry relates to one of two strikes in the vicinity of Kunyo Barrow in Lower Shabelle. According to

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Belligerents reported killed

محطة الريفي، مدينة غزة , Vicinity of Al Rifi Petrol Station, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Around midnight on Thursday, October 26th 2023, at least 12 civilians, including at least three women, were reportedly killed and a number of others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike that hit homes of the Abu Hasira and Abdel Latif families on al-Nafaq Street, near the al-Tawhid and Sunnah Mosque and “al-Ashi” carpentry in

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(0–6 children3–8 women2–5 men)

12 – 49

11 named, 1 familiy identified

Nearby landmark

أريحا, Ariha, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

In a major incident, 14 civilians including children and women were reported killed and between 23 and 30 injured in alleged Russian forces or Syrian regime forces airstrikes on the western neighborhood of Ariha city in Idlib, Syria on January 5th, 2020. Macro Media Center (MMC) reported that airstrikes were launched by a SU-24 warplane

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(3–8 children1–2 women5–8 men)

23–30

Suspected targets

Assad regime, Unknown

42 named, 3 families identified

محيط معبر رفح, Vicinity of Rafah crossing, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Sunday May 12th 2024, a 43 year old man, Muhammed Misbah Hassan Abu Hamda, was reportedly killed as a result of alleged Israeli gunfire in the vicinity of the Rafah crossing. In a tweet sharing news of various incidents from the same day, the account @az_za98 posted to X/ Twitter to further report the

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Small arms and light weapons

معدان, Ma’dan, Raqqa city, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Warplanes bombarded the town of Ma’dan on September 9th 2017 resulting in ‘considerable material damage to property’, RFS News reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was alone in alleging civilian harm, reporting that one civilian was wounded. This was part of a ‘large number of raids’ conducted by the Russians in the area, according

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Russian Military

كفرناها, Kafrnaha, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to local sources, two children were reported killed, and four other civilians injured in alleged Russian forces or Syrian regime airstrikes one of which hit an IDP shelter in Kafrnaha in the western suburbs of Aleppo governorate in Syria, on January 17th, 2020. Edlib Media Center reported that Russian warplanes targeted the area with

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(2 children)

4–7

2 named

جباليا, Jabalia, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 8:51 PM on Wednesday, October 31st 2023, six civilians were killed and several civilians, including a girl, were injured in an alleged Israeli strike at the Krizem family’s house located opposite the Al-Fakhoura Clinic, west of Jabalia, in the Gaza Strip. Multiple posts, including a Twitter post from @ShehabAgency and a news report

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ريف المهندسين, Al Muhandiseen countryside, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Muhammad Ahmad Taha Bazar was injured and a day later sucumbed to his injuries in the hospital, and three further civilians were injured in an attack carried out by the Russian Armed Forces, which targeted the Mohandessin countryside, south of Aleppo at 1 on January 20th, 2020. The Syrian Network for Human rights posted a

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2–3

المركز الثقافي في بني سهيلا, Vicinity of Cultural Centre, Bani Suhaila, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 11:20 PM on Monday, 30th October 2023, Shebab Agency, alongside multiple other sources, reported three minor injuries as a result of an airstrike that struck a house belonging to the Mohsen (“Al-Raqb”) family located near the Cultural Centre in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip. Other reports, all published on social

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0–3

بينين, Benin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was killed and another one injured by an alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike on the village of Benin, Idlib Governorate on January 26th, 2020, according to local media reports. The Local Coordination Committees of Syria posted: “18:18 A regime’s warplane raid targeting the village of Benin. Resulting in the death of a

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2 named

ذيبين, Theybin (Dhibin), Al Suwayda, Syria

LOCATION

On the evening of Monday, December 18th, 2023, at least four people from one family, including a woman and two children, were reportedly killed by an airstrike allegedly perpetrated by the Jordanian military on a farm near the town of Theybin (Dhibin) located south of the Al Suwiyda city area, close to Syrian-Jordanian border. Several

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(2 children1 woman)

1–2

Jordanian Military

موجان, Mojan, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

Some local language Twitter users alleged that US battleships bombarded the area of Mojan, al-Maraqisha, Abyan province early on February 1st 2017, where AQAP militants were allegedly based. One source claimed that fisherman in the Shaqra area spotted American battleships approaching from the coast. There were no known reports of civilian or combatant casualties. Other

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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

US Forces

Suspected target

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

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(4 children2 women14 men)

22 named, 6 families identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

جدرايا, Jadraya, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Between four and six civilians, including up to four women and two children, were reported killed and six civilians were injured as a result of alleged Russian or Syrian airstrikes on the village of Jadraya in the southwestern Idlib countryside on February 5, 2020. Regarding civilian harm, Shaam and @thiqanewsagency reported that four civilians died

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4 – 6

(1 child3–4 women)

5 named, 1 familiy identified

القنصلية الإيرانية في دمشق, Iranian consulate building in Damascus (Iranian embassy complex), Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

At 00:17 on Monday, April 1, 2024, an elderly Syrian woman was killed alongside her son, and a number of civilians, including a woman, were injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy complex on the Mazzeh Highway in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, as reported by multiple sources

Summary

Legal, Ministry, Residential

(1 woman1 man)

1–2

Hezbollah, Iranian military

Suspected targets

3 named, 1 familiy identified

Belligerents reported killed

طريق الهضبة, Al Hadaba Road, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Civilians were reported injured from shelling on the Al Hadaba road. Tarhuna 24 said: “A shell landed on a house on Tareeq Al Hadaba, along with reports of injuries.” Local reports of fighting point at the GNA or LNA as the culprit. There is currently no further information available.

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

2–3

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

النصر، مدينة غزة, Al-Nasr neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the afternoon of October 28th 2023, dozens of people were killed and wounded by alleged Israeli airstrikes on the Nassar family home in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood of Gaza City. The names and ages of the victims have not been found by Airwars among local sources, besides the family name. A Facebook post from Ahmad

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Apartment Building, Residential

12 – 24

Exact location (via Airwars)

الشيخ عقيل, Al Sheikh Akil, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to local sources, civilians were killed when Russian or Syrian regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Al Sheikh Akil on February 14th 2020, as well as other areas close by incluing the villages of Tamura and Bashmara in the western countryside of Aleppo, Syria. It is not clear how many civilians were allegedly killed.

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مخيم الشاطئ، مدينة غزة, Al Shati Camp, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 6pm on Sunday, 29th October 2023, at least 35 civilians, including at least eight women and 16 children, were reportedly killed and dozens were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the Shamiya family in Al Shati Refugee Camp, west of Gaza City. @Shaabradio was the first to report the

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(16–18 children8–9 women10–11 men)

35 – 37

37 named, 3 families identified

Neighbourhood/area

قميناس , Qaminas, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Two media activists and several Turkish soldiers were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike upon the village of Qaminas on February 20th. A tweet from @alhariri58 announced the wounding of Ibrahim al-Darwish and Ahmed Rahal, with the latter posting “I am fine” on WhatsApp and tweeting that Russian aircraft dropped cluster missile shelling 4 meters

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عيترون, Aitaroun, Nabatieh District, Lebanon

LOCATION

At least 11 people were reported injured by an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Aitaroun in southern Lebanon on September 23, 2024. Halab Today TV, quoting the Lebanese Ministry of Health, reported that 11 people were injured by an Israeli raid on the town of Aitaroun. A Facebook post from

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