Civilian Casualties

6 – 12

(1 child)

35–45

Forsooley, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

A reported tweet from Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency – apparently since deleted – referred to a joint raid on February 2nd by Somali and US forces which was said to have killed 40 al Shabaab fighters. Goobjoog News, which picked up on the original tweet, said that “The National Intelligence and Security Agency

Summary

Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

Causes of injury / death

US Forces, Kenyan Military Forces

Known belligerent

Somali Military Forces

Suspected target

Al-Shabaab

Belligerents reported killed

المغازي, Al Maghazi, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Saturday, October 21st, 2023, a number of civilians were reportedly injured when the Al Khadura family house in Al-Maghazi camp, Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by an Israeli aircraft. Sources including @YouthGoDigital tweeted about the bombing, and Facebook posts by AlMaghazi2 and Media Platform Mahmoud Abu Zinadah stated that there were several casualties, but

Summary

كفروما, Kafarrouma, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilians, including one man, were reportedly injured in an alleged Syrian regime and/or Russian airstrikes on the town of Kafarrouma, Idlib governorate, on December 3rd 2019, according to local sources. @Step_Agency said helicopters used barrel bombs to target the center of Kafarrouma, injuring three civilians. Wasim Alkhalaf said helicopters initially targeted the village at

Summary

1–3

الشجاعي، مدينة غزة, Al Shujaiya neighborhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the afternoon of October 10th 2023, six civilians, most of whom were children, were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Aslim family home, located in the Al Shujaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip. Alaa Ahmed Zaino (30) and her children, Yahya Muhannad Sami Aslim (12), Hala Muhannad Sami Aslim (10), Majda Muhannad Sami Aslim (5), and

Summary

(4 children1 woman1 man)

6 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

اعزاز, Azaz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to local sources, one woman was reported killed and 15 other civilians including 8 children and 2 women were injured in alleged YPG shelling on Azaz, Aleppo in Syria on December 3rd, 2019. The woman killed was identified as Zalikha Ahmed Kasaiba, 36 years old.

Summary

(1 woman)

دير البلح, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the evening of Tuesday, October 24th 2023, at least six civilians, including two women and two children, were reportedly killed and multiple people were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike which reportedly hit the al-Adini family home in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Press Agency Safa, along with multiple other sources,

Summary

(2 children2 women2 men)

2–10

صلاح الدين, Salaheddin, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

One civilian was allegedly killed by LNA artillery shelling on the Salaheddin neighbourhood of Tripoli. The Field Medicine and Support Center (FMSC) said: “Salem Al-Nafis Field Hospital, Salah Al-Din, affiliated to the Center for Field Medicine and Support, treated Mr. Ali Ramadan Al-Harak in Salaheddin today, Monday 16-12-2019, who was wounded with shrapnel of shells

Summary

(1 man)

قيزان النَجّار, Qaizan Al Najjar, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

In the early hours of Wednesday, October 11th 2023, at least six civilians, including at least two children and one woman, were reportedly killed and a number of civilians were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing of a three-story family home in Qaizan Al Najjar in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, likely belonging to

Summary

(2–3 children1 woman2–3 men)

5 named, 1 familiy identified

Village

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

سراقب , Saraqib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Seven or eight civilians, including four children and between one and three women, were reportedly killed and more than twenty civilians, including women and children, were wounded in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on a popular market in the city of Saraqib on December 21st, 2019, according to local sources. The Syrian Observatory for

Summary

(4 children1–3 women2–5 men)

7 – 8

20–25

28 named

جباليا, Jabalia, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

In the early hours of Wednesday, October 25th 2023, 35-year-old journalist of Al-Aqsa TV Ahmed Abdul Hay Abdullah Abu Mahadi was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike while he was in his home in Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip. Ahmed Abu Mahadi worked for Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa TV and was the fifth journalist

Summary

(1 man)

1 named

Town

طرابلس‎: مشروع الهضبة, Tripoli: Hadaba project, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Up to six civilians including children were injured and one killed after the Tripoli neighbourhood of the Hadaba project was shelled, most likely by LNA forces. Several shells appear to have caused civilian harm, including one which struck the home of Omar Al-Ayat and one which fell outside a nearby mosque. Burkan al Ghadab reported

Summary

5–6

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

Infrastructure

Residential

(4 men)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

البوكمال, Abu Kamal, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

One child was reportedly injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike targeting ISIL fighters in the “Old Corniche” area in the city of Abu Kamal, according to local sources.

Summary

US-led Coalition

مستكو, عفرين, Mastako, Afrin, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A civilian 64-year-old was wounded followed an alleged Turkish shelling of Mastako, Afrin, according to Rumaf. The source said that the victim had many shrapnel wounds in his thighs, hands and head. The Kurdish Red Crescent also listed the victim as wounded, though it said this occurred in Shya’ and it is not known whether

Summary

Several towns in Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, the Shaam News Network, reported: “Russian warplanes and helicopter gunships carried out air strikes with rockets and explosive barrels on the city of Kafrnabal, the towns of Verkia, Kafar Sijna Shanan, Maarat China, Kerasa, Jabalya, Naji, Musharrafa, Kafr Fasnajah, on the roofs of the monastery, in Termla, Hazarin, Dar al-Kabira and Ma’arzita.

Summary

Russian Military

مركز الدعوة إلى الله القريب، مخيم النصيرات, Vicinity of Al-Dawa Mosque, Nuseirat Camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the evening of October 30, 2023, at least 14 people were killed and “a large number” of others, including children, were injured in an alleged Israeli bombardment on the Hamdan family home located on Street 18 in the Al-Dawa area of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Grandmother Hikmat Mahmoud al-Maqousi (72)

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

Infrastructure

(3 children5 women1 man)

5–10

10 named, 2 families identified

Nearby landmark

طرابلس‎: مسجد القمبري, Tripoli: Qambari Mosque, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

One civilian was reportedly killed and up to three more injured because of LNA shelling on the Shurfat Al Malaha area of Tripoli. The Field Medicine and Support Center said: “Resident Abdelhak Chakroun, a Moroccan national, who moved to the mercy of God as a result A shell landed in Shurfat Al Malaha area in

Summary

أفس, residential neighbourhoods in Afes, Idlib, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On the evening of Tuesday, November 14, 2023, an artillery strike with contested responsibility allegedly perpetrated by Syrian regime forces or the Russian military on residential neighbourhoods in the village of Afes in Idlib, Syria, injured a woman and a girl. The names and further details about the civilians injured in the strike and the

Summary

Syrian Regime, Russian Military

الزربة, Zerba, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to local media, a 21-year-old civilian was wounded followed an alleged Turkish air and or artillery strike on the village of Zerba. It was reported that his wounds were critical and that as many as four other civilians were wounded, including critical cases. Sources reported that Turkish warplanes bombed the centre of Shirawa and

Summary

1–4

تقاد, Taqad, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

One to two children were reported killed and up to four other civilians, including one to two children and one or two women, were reported injured in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Taqad in Aleppo, Syria on January 21st, 2020, according to local sources. Syrian Civil Defense said the two women believed to

Summary

1 – 2

(1–2 children)

2–4

2 named

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

اعزاز, Azaz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Up to ten civilians were injured in alleged SDF or Syrian regime artillery strikes on the city of Azaz, Aleppo governorate, on January 16th, 2020, according to local sources. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored “a missile strike carried out by the ‘Kurdish forces’ stationed in Maranaz within the northern sector of Aleppo countryside,

Summary

8–10

YPG, Syrian Regime

منزل عمر طلب في عرمان, house of Omar Talab in Arman, Al Suwayda city area, Al Suwayda, Syria

LOCATION

At one o’clock in the morning of Tuesday, January 9th, 2024, at least three identified civilians, including two women, died in an airstrike reportedly perpetrated by Jordanian forces on the house of Omar Talab in Arman town located in the Al Suwayda city area, Syria, while up to three civilians were reportedly injured. A rescue

Summary

(2 women1 man)

Jordanian Military

3 named, 1 familiy identified

الباب, Al Bab, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Eight people were reportedly injured as a result of an alleged Turkish artillery shelling on Al Bab. Al Bab News and the ISIS-affiliated outlet Al A’amaq said that most of the wounded were women and children. There are currently no further details available.

Summary

Turkish Military

الخبر, Al Khabr, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

Several sources alleged that US battleships bombarded the area of Al Khabr in al-Maraqisha, Abyan governorate, on February 2nd 2017, where AQAP militants were allegedly based. There were no reported civilian or combatant casualties. One anonymous Yemeni government official, speaking to Reuters, said that “ships fired several missiles towards the al-Maraqisha mountains, where al Qaeda

Summary

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

US Forces

Suspected target

خربة العدس، رفح, Khirbet Al Adas, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before noon on 21 June 2024, an alleged Israeli bombardment struck the Al Shuhada Square and killed three civilians while injuring others. All three, 28-year-old Muhammad Awni al-Nahal, Mazyouna Salamah al-Nahal, and 23-year-old Alaa Talaat al-Nahal, belonged to the al-Nahal family. Alaa al-Nahal was the first to be identified. A news account on Facebook

Summary

(1 woman2 men)

3 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

صراع, Sara'a, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Twelve civilians were wounded, including five women and five children, due to alleged Russian airstrikes in Sara’a village. Sources all blamed either Russian warplanes or Syrian regime raids for the strikes. According to Smart News Agency, four of the victims were in a serious condition, and elderly. Local media additionally reported that “Russian air strikes

Summary

2–12