Civilian Casualties

Люботин, Liubotyn, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

A man was killed and up to seven others, including two women, were injured in their homes by alleged Russian shelling and/or airstrikes on the town of Liubotyn on March 28, 2022. Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union reported that during a shelling of the town of Liubotyn one person was killed, seven others were injured,

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2–7

بليون, Balyoun, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Up to eight civilians were reported injured in airstrikes on Balyoun, Idlib, on July 20th. @muhammad_salhab said “Six injuries and major damage to the properties of the people as a result of the airstrike that targeted the town of Billion in the morning.” @SY_plus tweeted reported “six injuries, including four men, a child and a

Summary

6–8

Syrian Regime, Russian Military

Чугуїв, Chuhuiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On April 4th, one civilian was killed when confirmed Russian forces opened fire and shelled an enterprise building in the Chuhuiv section of Kharkiv. The Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office posted on Telegram and Facebook that they had carried out a pre-trial investigation for violations of the rules of war according to Part 2, article 438

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Дергачі, Derhachi, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On Sunday, April 3rd 2022, three civilians were killed and seven injured by alleged Russian shells hit the residential sector of the city of Dergachi in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine. Sources including Suspilne and Hromadske unanimously account for three civilians being killed and seven being injured in various degrees of severity. 2day.kh reported on

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Немишлянський район, Nemyshlyanskyi district, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On April 18th 2022, alleged Russian forces shelled a residential area of Nemyshlyanskyi district in Kharkiv. Local reports listed three civilian fatalities, including an elderly woman, and four civilians were wounded, including a 17 year old. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, through Channel 24, reported that Russian forces struck several residential buildings, resulting in

Summary

(1 woman2 men)

Russian Military

Exact location (via Airwars)

П’ятихатки, P’yatykhatky, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

Two civilians were injured by alleged Russian shelling of P’yatykhatky in Kharkiv city on May 10, 2022. Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration reported on Telegram that in Kharkiv, two people were hospitalized with injuries as a result of shelling by the occupiers (Russian forces). Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group added that

Summary

Дергачівська громада, Dergachivska community, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On 17th April 2022, the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration reported two people had been killed and one injured in the Dergachiv community as a result of alleged Russian shelling. A report published by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHRPG) quoted this statement that the Dergachy community had been shelled, leading

Summary

خان شيخون, Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported that an unknown number of civilians were injured in alleged Russian airstrikes, which targeted residential neighbourhoods in the city of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib countryside around 12:30 PM on July 30th, 2019. Step Agency wrote that “the Russian air force targeted several airstrikes in Khan [Sheikhoun], Moka and Jbala villages in the southern

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Mosul, near al Salem hospital, Iraq

LOCATION

The Coalition mistakenly hit Iraqi forces during an airstrike near al Salem hospital in Mosul, according to some local sources. Iraqi Spring Media Center reported that the Coalition mistakenly targeted” government forces near Salam Hospital in the southeast of Mosul. And Sputnik News claimed that US Air Force bombs left 90 Iraqi military members dead

Summary

US-led Coalition

عفرين ، رأس العين ، اعزاز ، تل أبيض ، الباب ، جرابلس, Afrin, Ras Al Ain, Azaz, Tell Abyad, Al Bab, Jarablus, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A child was killed and between 20 to 25 civilians, including two women and four children, were injured by alleged Turkish-back faction heavy gunfire around Afrin on May 28, 2023. Hawar News initially reported that a child was killed and “a number of people, including women” were injured by gunfire from Turkish militia members while

Summary

(1 child)

20–25

Small arms and light weapons

أَبْيَن , Abyan province, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

An anonymous Yemen defence ministry official claimed that a significant number of US drone strikes had taken place between mid-May and mid-June 2011. Strikes began in Shabwa province from May 3 onwards. According to The National, 15 US strikes took place between June 1 and June 15, including one on June 11 in which there

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

US Forces

Suspected target

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

On the morning of Friday, July 14th 2023, at least one civilian, a woman, was injured and a fire broke out in a disused poultry farm when Russian and/or Syrian regime forces allegedly shelled the residential neighborhoods and outskirts of the town of Sarmin, south-east of Idlib, with heavy artillery fire. The injured woman was

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1–2

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

عمارة أبو زهري بمدينة رفح, Abu Zuhri Building, Al Shaboura, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 8th, 2023 at around 9:50pm, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Abu Zuhri apartment building in the Al-Shaboura refugee camp, Rafah City, in the Gaza strip, and killed between four and five civilians, among them Jasser Marjouna, Jasser Marjouna’s wife, Abdulnaser Shabanah, and an infant and woman whose names are not published within the

Summary

4 – 5

(1 child2 women1–2 men)

20–55

Israeli Military

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Exact location (via Airwars)

مخيم كويت الرحمة, Kuwait Al Rahma camp, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On the evening of Wednesday 9 August, 2023, one civilian was reportedly killed and five to seven others, including three children and a woman, were injured by a missile strike on the Kuwait Al Rahma camp for displaced persons in Jabal Teranda, Afrin. The strike reportedly came from areas controlled by the regime forces and

Summary

5–7

Syrian Democratic Forces, Syrian Regime

3 named, 1 familiy identified

بير النعجة, Bir Al Najah, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Monday, October 9th 2023, 18 civilians, all members of the Abu Obaid family, including at least seven children and seven women, were reported killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike on their home in the Bir al-Naja area west of the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip. Two combatants were also reported killed, also members

Summary

(7–8 children7 women3 men)

Israeli Military

18 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Belligerents reported killed

Neighbourhood/area

أطراف قرية دويرة قرب قباسين، في ريف حلب الشرقي, the outskirts of the village of Douira, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least three people, a man, a woman and a male child from the same family, were injured by artillery shelling allegedly carried out by the SDF and/or the Syrian regime in a makeshift camp for displaced people on the outskirts of the village of Douira, near the town of Qabasin, in the eastern countryside

Summary

YPG, Syrian Regime

مخيم خان يونس, Khan Younis camp, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Wednesday, October 11th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike killed between eight and 12 civilians, including four children, in a strike on the Abu al-Rish family house. The house was reportedly destroyed, while neighbouring homes in the center of the Khan Younis Camp, were severely damaged. In addition to the children the attack, which according

On October 11, 2023, two civilians were reportedly killed and two paramedics injured when an ambulance evacuating injured people near to Al Karama Towers was struck by alleged Israeli strikes. Sources did not provide the names or identities of the victims. A report published by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights claimed that a number

Summary

Impact

الريحانية, Al Rihaniya, Hattai, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was wounded when two rockets were allegedly fired by YPG forces from Afrin into Al Rihaniya, Hatay in Turkey, according to local media. The source @CapaMagGundem claimed that “two rockets launched from the Afrin area hit the wall of an empty house in Gültepe Mahallesi of the Reyhanlı district of Hatay. One civilian

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YPG

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the deaths of two civilians in an event near Mosul. Their April 2018 civilian casualty report noted: “It was assessed that during a Coalition strike against an ISIS commander, ISIS headquarters and VBIED operation which destroyed the VBIED operation, two civilians were unintentionally

Summary

Known belligerent

US-led Coalition

مخيم النصيرات, Nuseirat camp, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the evening of Thursday, October 12, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Aqal family home located in the Nuseirat camp, central Gaza Strip, resulted in the death of one civilian. Al-Mayadeen news covered the incident, stating that a “martyr was recovered from the home of the Aqal family”, with Wattan news reporting that

Summary

Town

Shora village near Qayyarah, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Following the New York Times Magazine’s Uncounted investigation, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of a civilian in an event in Shora, a village near Qayyarah, Iraq. According to reporters Azmat Khan and Anand Ghopal, “Mohammad Mansour Abdullah’s house was next to the home of an Army Officer who fled Shora when ISIS took over. An

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المغراقة, Al Maghraqa, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Tuesday, October 10th 2023, between 13 and 14 members of the al-Hasanat family, including at least two women and five children of whom one was a 9 month old infant, were reportedly killed, and several others were injured after an alleged Israeli bombing of the home of the al-Hasanat family in the center of

Summary

Infrastructure

Residential

(5–6 children2 women6 men)

13 – 14

2–3

Israeli Military

13 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Village

near Mosul, Iraq, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on June 2nd 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on social media claims of civilian harm “near Mosul, Iraq”. According to the Coalition report, “10. Feb. 21, 2017, near Mosul, Iraq, via social media report: After a review of available information it was assessed

Summary

US-led Coalition

عقيربات, Akeirbat, Hama, Syria

LOCATION

On January 21, 2017, local media sources reported that one child died and several other civilians were wounded in an alleged Russian airstrike on Akeirbat in the countryside in the east of the Hama region in Syria. No further details are currently available.

Summary

(1 child)

Russian Military

LOCATION

البيضاء, Al Bayda, Yemen

A US airstrike targeted AQAP in Bayda governorate on January 25th 2018, a US Central Command spokesperson later told the Long War Journal. Our Arabic-language researchers found no local reports of a US strike on that day, and there were no known claims of civilian harm.

Summary

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Known belligerent

US Forces

Known target

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

LOCATION

On October 13th 2023, a young male civilian was killed in a bombing of the Al-Barawi family home located in Beit Lahia, Gaza Strip. A post on social media from a relative, Wisam Al-Barawi, identified Mohammed Basem Al-Barawi as the civilian killed in the strike on Beit Lahia. An image of the damaged house showing

Summary

Infrastructure

Residential