Civilian Casualties

1 – 2

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

السوسة, Al Soussa, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian died after being hit by “SDF artillery” in al Soussa, according to local media. It is Airwars’ understanding however that only the Coalition had access to artillery in the near region at that time. On October 1st, Boukamlna reported that “Nuri Rifai Al Ali Al Dagher died in Damascus yesterday [Sept 30th] from

Summary

Syrian Democratic Forces, US-led Coalition

1 named

العسة, Al Assah, An Nuqat al Khams, Libya

LOCATION

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, one man named Alaa Belkhair was reported killed and six people were injured in an alleged Libyan National Army airstrike on Al Assah near Zuwara, northwestern Libya. Zuwara News wrote on Facebook that “an aeroplane just hit the Al-Assah area and resulted in the death of one man from Misurata

Summary

LOCATION

Al Jidar, Idlib, Syria

One civilian died and several more were wounded in an airstrike on Al Jidar, local media reported. Most sources blamed Russia, though one indicated that the regime had also carried out raids on Idlib on this day. Russia: @syriahadath reported one civilian fatality as the result of Russia shelling. The report mentioned the use of

Summary

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

البوعجيل, Bojeel, Salah Al Din, Iraq

LOCATION

Reports claimed that Coalition strike hit a mosque during Friday prayers in the town of Al Bojeel, to the east of Tikrit.

Summary

بالقرب من مسجد الاسراء برفح, Vicinity of Al-Isra Mosque, Rafah, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

In the afternoon of October 25th 2023, seven identified members of the al-Shaer family, including one woman and at least one child, were killed, and up to 10 others were injured when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a house for the al-Shaer family on Aed Al-Bashiti Street behind Al-Isra Mosque in the Al-Geneina neighbourhood in

Summary

Religious, Residential

(1–2 children1 woman4–5 men)

7–10

7 named, 1 familiy identified

الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

According to two sources, at least 7 civilians killed including a child and woman and 6 injuries by an alleged Coalition airstrike in Rutba district west of Anbar. The sources cited that the strikes targeted various locations in Rutba district. No additional details are presently known. In the second of their March 2020 civilian casualty reports, the US-led Coalition

Summary

(1 child1 woman)

الباب, Al-Bab, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilian men were reported killed in an event near the town of Al Bab, after a US aircraft dropped a 500lb bomb on a fleeing ISIL suspect. They were later named by the VDC and Syrian Martyrs. Social media also reported civilian deaths, with one tweet noting: “At least two civilians martyred in the

Summary

(2 children3 men)

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

LOCATION

At least 10 or 11 members of the al-Dariwi family, including two women and two children, were reportedly killed while a number of family members were also injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the evening of Monday, 23 October 2023, which struck their home in the town of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. Initial

Summary

(2–3 children2–3 women5 men)

11 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

الموصل‎, 100km South of Mosul on ‘Road 1’, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

An alleged coalition airstrike struck a vehicle on the road between Mosul and Baghdad, which was carrying Jordanian mosque janitor Ahmed Abdul Aqi [sometimes Baqi], his wife and daughter. All three died in the incident. The driver of the car Ahmed al Azzawi (pictured below) also died according to his family. In a detailed report

Summary

(1 child2 men)

US-led Coalition, Unknown

4 named, 1 familiy identified

ميناء الصليف, Al-Sulayf seaport, Al-Hudaydah, Yemen

LOCATION

Around midnight on May 30th-May 31st, 2024, 14 civilians, including a sailor named Ayoub Abdullah Hassan Zaidan, were killed and 25 other civilians were injured, including one heavily injured sailor, as a result of the declared US-UK airstrike on the Coast Guard building located in the Salif (Al Sulayf) seaport in the Al Hudayhah Governorate,

Summary

Known belligerents

UK Military, US Forces

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

التوامة, Tawama, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

According to Al Jazeera and others, a Coalition strike on the al Nusra Front at al Tawama destroyed a number of civilian buildings, killing as many as seven inhabitants. Fifteen alleged militants – most described as ‘Turks’ – also died in the attack which reportedly struck two separate locations in the village. According to Sana

Summary

1 – 11

(1 child)

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

Southeast of Darusalaam, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

A US strike on al Shabaab fighters in the Lower Shabelle region also killed three civilians, Amnesty International later reported. Two US strikes took place in Somalia on November 12th, with one targeting al Shabaab and the other hitting Islamic State fighters, according to US Africa Command. The strikes killed “several fighters”, it said. The

Summary

(3 men)

0–3

شارع صلاح الدين, Salah al Din Street, Deir al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

A car carrying civilians was allegedly hit by an Israeli Military tank that fired a shell at it on Salah al-Din Street in the Gaza Strip on the 30th of October 2023, killing between three and six people. While many sources reported that the car contained three civilians, Abderrahman.zoom reported that four civilians were in

Summary

(2–3 children2 women1–2 men)

3 – 6

1 named

Exact location (other)

الرمادي, Ramadi city: eastern area, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq noted in January 2016 that two possible civilian casualty incidents had taken place in the vicinity of Ramadi on September 3rd of the previous year. The Coalition has confirmed carrying out strikes in the area on that day. According to UNAMI, “[an] airstrike reportedly hit a residential area

Summary

اطمه, Atimah, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A US airstrike on a Jaish al-Sunna ammunition depot in the night also killed at least eight non-combatants in the village of Atmeh, it was widely reported. According to accounts, a number of civilian homes were damaged or destroyed in secondary explosions. Graphic images showed significant damage at the scene. Five young girls were among

Summary

(6–7 children1–2 women)

4–12

11 named, 1 familiy identified

مخيم المغاز, Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp, Deir al-Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

In the early afternoon of November 2nd, 2023 an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Afana family home in the Al Maghazi Refugee camp and killed 13 members of the Afana family, including five young children, and injured dozens of other civilians. The strike killed Dr. Azo Ismail Salim Afana, 69, alongside his wife Sameera Mahmoud

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

(5 children4 women4 men)

12–24

Impact

15 named, 1 familiy identified

قصر بن غشير, Qasr Bin Gashir, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Othman Mesbah Akak was reportedly killed by indiscriminate artillery shelling on Qasr Bin Gashir. Riyadh Burshan said that the died from a shell falling on his house. Local reporting points at the GNA or the LNA as the perpetrator of the shelling.

Summary

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

1 named

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A reported coalition airstrike on an ISIL IED factory [see CI109] injured ‘dozens’ of civilians, it was claimed, after a chemical cloud spread across local areas. Waradana cited Ghias Surja of the Nineveh Union of Kurdistan National Center as saying: “The lab was used by the criminal organization for terrorist activities against the innocent and

Summary

مدرستي بدر ودلال المغربي في حي الشجاعية, Dalal Al Maghribi School and Badr School, Al Shuja'iyya neighbourhood, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the evening of August 1st 2024, at least 10 civilians were killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike on Badr School and Dalal Al Maghribi School in the al-Shuja’iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. In addition to those killed, sources reported that the number of those injured ranged from 30 to “more than 45.” Airwars

Summary

10 – 16

(0–2 children6–8 men)

30–46

Impact

9 named, 1 familiy identified

الشجرة, Al Shajra, Daraa, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported that alleged airstrikes struck a building in Al Shajra town which several sources referred to as an “Islamic Court” while others described it as the headquarters of the “Islamic Army of Khalid Bin Al-Walid” – a faction that has been accused of being associated with the “Islamic State”. Sources were conflicted as

Summary

(3 women)

US-led Coalition, Israeli Military

Suspected target

ISIS

13–20

الهول, Al Hawl, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilian men were reported killed when their vehicle was struck in a Coalition airstrike, according to reports. This incident is presently single source only with VDC naming the three men. In its July 2017 monthly report, the Coalition classed the event as non credible on grounds of proximity: “Oct. 31, 2015, near Al Hawl,

Summary

(3 men)

قطعة 7، مخيم البريج, Block 7, Bureij camp, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Saturday, 28th October 2023, at least seven members of the Aslan Family were reportedly killed and others wounded in an alleged Israeli attack against Block 7 of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The attack reportedly hit a house belonging to the family. According to several sources, IIham Al Malakh and her

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Infrastructure

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

(2 children2 women0–3 men)

4 – 10

4 named, 1 familiy identified

0–3

كفرجالس, Kafr Jalis, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

In an airstrike confirmed by CENTCOM, US forces struck what it reported to be an Al-Qaeda command center in northern Idlib. Local sources reported that the US strike struck a military headquarters belonging to “Ansar Al-Tawhid” in the town of Kafr Nabil, but added that civilian houses were struck nearby as well, resulting in a

Summary

22 – 29

(6 children1 man)

Belligerents reported injured

14–51

مدرسة عيلبون بلدة القرارة, Eilabun school, Al-Qarara, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On July 24th, 2024, 45-year-old Osama Marzi Abu Lahia and 54-year-old Adel Omar Tafesh were killed and a number of others wounded in an alleged Israeli sniper attack inside the Eilabun School, located in the town of Al-Qarara, east of Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip. The school had been serving as a shelter for

Summary

(2 men)

Small arms and light weapons

Impact

2 named

Nearby landmark

و الكشمة, Al Kashma, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported on “two new massacres” resulting from alleged Coalition airstrikes targeting the towns of Al Sha’fa and al-Kashma in Deir al-Zour. Several sources including Free Deir Ezzor Radio and Baladi News reported the killing of a total of 17 non-combatant civilians including four women and three children. Baladi added that the victims were

Summary

(0–3 children0–4 women)

US-led Coalition, Syrian Regime

Suspected target

ISIS

المعارض المنفيس, Mosul, Exhibitions area, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Multiple local sources claimed that 11 civilians were killed and 6 others wounded after Coalition aircraft allegedly targeted cars in the Exhibitions area east of Mosul. According to the National Iraqi News Agency, residents in the city’s Exhibitions area said the casualties occurred when aircraft fired on vehicles: “The bodies of civilians were handed over to

Summary

10 – 11

6–11