Civilian Casualties

1–3

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

LOCATION

Eight children and two women were killed in the early hours of Saturday 15 May when Israeli airstrikes struck a three-storey house in the Al Shati ‘Beach’ refugee camp, to the west of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. Various sources have reported that two mothers, who were sisters-in-law, died in the strike, with each

Summary

(8 children2 women)

11 named, 1 familiy identified

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

بلشون, Balshoun, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A least one man was killed and one to two other civilians were killed in alleged Russian or regime strikes on the town of Balshoun on August 16, 2021. Sources are contested as to whether the man killed was a civilian or a belligerent. The correspondent for @HalabTodayTV reported that a civilian was killed in

Summary

0 – 1

(0–1 men)

1–2

Suspected target

Al Qaeda/HTS

1 named, 1 familiy identified

0–1

LOCATION

نوى, Nawa, Daraa, Syria

Local sources reported that more than 19 people including women and children were killed in alleged Russian or Syrian regime air and/or artillery strikes on Nawa in Dara’a governorate on July 17th, 2018. Local sources reported that the attacks on Nawa happened with dozens of raids with explosive barrels, cluster bombs and rocket attacks. For

Summary

Infrastructure

Healthcare

(2 children3–7 women4 men)

12 – 20

5–10

8 named, 1 familiy identified

قرية قرفل, Village of Qarfal, near Ain Essa, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

On the 23rd of November, 2023, a number of civilians, reportedly cotton workers, were injured and a car was severely damaged by an alleged Turkish artillery strike on the village of Qarfal, near the town of Ain Issa in Tell Abyad District, to the north of Raqqa, Syria. Several reports on the strike stated that

Summary

1–2

Turkish Military

الجماهير, Al Jamahir, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of one civilian in an event near Al Jamahir, Iraq. Their December 2017 civilian casualty report noted: “During a Coalition strike which destroyed an ISIS headquarters, it was assessed that one civilian was unintentionally injured.” In July 2019, the Coalition provided

Summary

Known belligerent

US-led Coalition

شقة سكنية, Al Shahada Street, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Up to four civilians were reported killed when an alleged Israeli forces’ airstrike hit the Zarab building, Al Saraya junction, Gaza, at approximately 3am on May 19th 2021. According to some sources, as many as three other civilians were also injured. The building was an apartment in the vicinity of Al-Shahada Street in the Al-Rimal

Summary

3 – 4

(0–1 children3–4 men)

1–3

4 named, 1 familiy identified

حرستا, Harasta, Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

At least six civilians, including a child, were killed in airstrikes on residential areas of the city of Harasta on March 16th, as reported by several sources. It remains unclear whether the Russian military or the Syrian regime was responsible for the strike. Six victims have been named, but Jobar News counted nine or 10

Summary

6 – 10

(1 child)

6 named, 1 familiy identified

منطقة الكتيبة، خان يونس, Al Katiba area, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Tuesday October 24th 2023, the Al-Ghamri family house in the Al Katiba area in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip was hit in an alleged Israeli strike, killing up to five civilians and injuring up to ten civilians. Initially, Safa News reported just after midnight that two civilians were killed and a number of civilians were

Summary

Infrastructure

Residential

2–10

عربين, Arbeen, Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

Between three and 14 civilians including two children were reportedly killed and dozens more were injured in an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime forces airstrike on a residential area in Arbeen on March 20th 2018, according to local media resources. According to the Smart News Agency, “The Great Mosque in the city of Arbeen, east

Summary

3 – 14

(2 children1 man)

12–24

3 named, 1 familiy identified

منطقة معن، خان يونس, Ma’an area, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Around dawn on Friday, October 27, 2023, the Abu Shahma family home in the Ma’an area, east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, was hit by an alleged Israeli airstrike, resulting in at least five deaths, including three women, and several injuries. 28-year-old Magdy Tayseer Abu Shahma was killed alongside four-year-old Dahoud Tayseer Abu Shahma and

Summary

5 – 6

(1 child2–4 women1 man)

7 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

مرعيان, Marayan, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

At least one woman was killed and one to five others, including a child, were injured in alleged Russian or regime strikes on a home and medical facility in Marayan on September 8, 2021. According to @HadiAlabdallah, Russian airstrikes hit Marian Medical Center, the last medical center in Jabal Al-Zawiya, and killed one woman and

Summary

1 – 2

(1 woman)

1–5

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN)

Russian Military, Syrian Regime, Iranian Military

خان يونس, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 6:28 AM on Friday, October 27th, 2023 two civilian men, one of them elderly, were killed and a number of civilians were injured when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Al-Alami family home on Al-Mashrou’ Road, west of Khan Younis. Two victims have been identified and a number of others were reported injured.

Summary

(2 men)

2 named

City

سيدان, Sidan, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

LOCATION

Two to three people, including a woman, were injured in alleged Turkish drone strikes on the village of Saydani on October 4, 2021. Local sources were conflicted as to whether those injured were civilians or members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). According to Rudaw News, a 24-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man were injured

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

0–2

Belligerents reported injured

Turkish Military

Suspected target

Other

0–3

أريحا, Ariha, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Two children from the same family were killed and a woman injured in alleged Russian forces or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha in Idlib, Syria on June 10th, 2018, according to local media sources. The Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported that “Russian airstrikes targeted the city of Ariha in central Idlib countryside, resulting in

Summary

(2 children)

Suspected target

2 named, 1 familiy identified

قرية "گەلالە, house of Muhammad Saeed, Galala village, Shuriya valley, Maute district in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

LOCATION

On Sunday, April 14th, 2024, a young Kurdish man named Muhammad Saeed Muhammad was reported dead as a result of an alleged drone strike by the Turkish military on his house located in the village of Galala in the Mawt (Maute) district of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. At 3:07 pm,

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

كفرنوان , Kafr Noran, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least two civilians, a child and his mother, were killed and four to five others, including three to four other children and a man, were injured in alleged Russian or regime artillery shelling of the village of Kafar Noran on November 15, 2021. According to Hasakah News, a woman and her child were killed

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

4–5

2 named, 1 familiy identified

بالقرب من مخبز البنا الآلي، مخيم النصيرات, Vicinity of Al Banna Al Nuseirat bakery, Al Nuseirat Camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the evening of October 30th 2023, a 59 year-old engineer Ramadan Abu al-Rous (also known as “Abu Mahmoud”), was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Abu al-Rous family home opposite Al Banna Al Nuseirat bakery in Al Nuseirat, Gaza Strip. At 18:53 on October 30th Twitter/X user @Pal_newsps reported an alleged strike on

Summary

(1 man)

1 named

Nearby landmark

النهر الأبيض, Al Naher Al Abyad, Jisr Al Shoughour, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On New Years Day, three to four civilians, three children and a woman, were allegedly killed and ten others, including six children, were allegedly injured, by Russian air strikes just after midnight. The incident was reported to have taken place in the early hours of January 1st 2022 at 2.30am, in the Al-Nahr Al-Abyad area

Summary

3 – 4

(2–3 children1 woman)

Russian Military

12 named, 2 families identified

حي الشيخ رضوان، مدينة غزة, Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Gaza strip, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 2nd 2023, at least six members of the al-Ghoul family, including three children, were killed when their home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City was bombed in an alleged Israeli airstrike. A number of other family members were buried under rubble but survived “safely”. Local sources identified the names of the

Summary

(3 children2–3 women1 man)

6 – 7

6 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

البحرة, Al Bahra, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

On August 30th 2018, the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment of possible civilian harm. In the report, the Coalition wrote: “December 30, 2017, near al-Bahrah, Syria, via social media report. After a review of available information and strike video it was assessed that there is insufficient evidence to find civilians were harmed in

Summary

US-led Coalition

اعزاز, Azaz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On February 15th 2022, missile shelling targeted the city of Azaz in the northern countryside of Aleppo and reportedly killed three to six civilians and wounded between four and 12 others, including one to three children. The shelling was alleged PKK/YPG or attributed to the Syrian regime. Two students, Saeed Al-Haji and Akram Al-Hassan, in

Summary

3 – 6

(0–1 women3 men)

4–12

كفردسن, Kfar Dassen, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Two civilians were reportedly killed in alleged Russian airstrikes on the town of Kafr Dassen, Idlib governorate, on September 4th, 2018, according to Step News Agency. Step wrote that “Russian warplanes launched intensive air raids targeting villages and towns of rural Idlib West and the western and northern and western countryside of Hama, since the

Summary

الشارع الأول في حي الشيخ رضوان بمدينة غزة, Vicinity of First Street or Omar Bin al-Khattab Street, Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Late on Friday, June 7th 2024, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the home of the Muhanna family located near First Street in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City north of Gaza Strip, killing at least seven members of the same family, including a woman and three children, and injuring several other civilians. One militant

Summary

(3–6 children1–3 women0–1 men)

7 named, 1 familiy identified

Street

قرية تل طويله, Tel Tawel village, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was severely injured in alleged Turkish shelling of Tel Tawel village on April 16, 2022. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists reported “the severe injury of a Christian leading to the amputation of his leg, due to artillery shelling by Turkish forces on Tel Tawel village”. A source in the Tel Tamr Military Council

Summary

Turkish Military

مدرسة الزهراء، حي الدرج، مدينة غزة, Al Zahraa School, Al Daraj District, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On August 8th, 2024, at around 3pm, at least 12 members of the Mahani family were killed and dozens of others were wounded in an alleged Israeli strike on the Al Zahraa School, located in the Al Daraj neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. The victims included Muhammad Muslim Mahani (Abu Ali), Muhammad Muslim Mahani’s daughter*

Summary

(6–8 children1–2 women1–2 men)

12 – 13

12–24

12 named, 1 familiy identified

Nearby landmark

تل أبيض, Tal Abyad, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Between two and four civilians were killed and up to 12 others were injured in alleged Syrian Democratic Forces airstrikes/drone strikes/shelling of Tal Abyad on June 1, 2022. @DeirEzzorNow tweeted the names of the victims: two brothers “Wassim and Bashar Al-Barhou“, Hajj “Abdi Al-Hamran”, Khaled Al-Halisi 34 years old, adding that in addition “several” were

Summary

Airstrike, Airstrike and/or Artillery, Drone Strike

2 – 4

(1–2 children1–2 men)

6–12

YPG

4 named

0–1