Civilian Casualties

Russian Military

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A young man was killed and others were wounded in alleged Russian airstrikes on the town of Sarmin, Idlib governorate, on February 4th, 2020, according to SMART News Agency. SMART reported that “local sources and military observatories said that a civilian was killed and others were wounded as a result of missile strikes by Russian

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Accidents related to conflict

Russian Military

بالقرب من ميدان أنور عزيزم، مخيم جباليا, Vicinity of Anwar Aziz Square, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the day on Monday, 30 October 2023, “injuries” were reported after an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Anwar Aziz area in the center of Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip. Photographs were released and reshared by a number of media outlets and social media users showing two young men carried

Summary

حي الصناعة, Al Sinaa neighborhood, Idlib city, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Up to 16 civilians, including seven children, were killed and 33 civilians were injured in alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Al Sinaa (commercial) neighborhood of Idlib city on February 11th, 2020, according to local sources. The Syrian Civil Defence in Idlib reported that “12 people were killed and 33 others injured so far,

Summary

12 – 16

(7 children)

22–33

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

8 named, 1 familiy identified

حي الفالوجا, Al Faluga, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 28th 2024, an alleged Israeli strike reportedly hit the Afana family home in the Al Faluga area, north of the Gaza Strip, killing at least two female civilians, both children and injuring at least two people, including an infant. The two civilians killed were identified as 17-year-old Saja Shaaban Mohammed Afana and 1-year-old Nesreen Mohamed

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Residential

(2 children)

2–3

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

معرشمشة, Mar Shamsha, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A number of civilians were reportedly wounded due to airstrikes on Mar Shamsha. Only two sources attributed blame to Russia while the others blamed the Syrian regime for the raids. According to Shbaballatamneh3, two civilians were wounded by Russian rockets. Qasioun on the other hand reported no civilian casualties. Smart News Agency reported that a

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Russian Military, Syrian Regime

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

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US-led Coalition

جيليب, Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

One Al Shabaab fighter was allegedly killed and two more injured by a US airstrike near Jilib. AFRICOM confirmed conducting the strike two days later, one of a pair that day: “In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted two (2) airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab terrorists and a compound in the vicinity

Summary

Belligerents reported injured

محطة مشتهى القريبة، حي الشجاعية، مدينة غزة, Vicinity of Mashtaha station, Shujaiya neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On 28th October 2023 at least 26 members of the Samara family – spanning at least three generations and including at least 7 women and 14 children – were reportedly killed and a number of others injured when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a house/building belonging to the Samara Family in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east

Summary

Apartment Building, Residential

(10 children6 women5 men)

26 – 32

26 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

جبل نوفان, Jabal Novan, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Multiple sources reported that US airstrikes targeted alleged AQAP militants in Jabal Novan, Bayda governorate, overnight from March 1st to March 2nd, killing three. There were no known reports of civilian casualties. Local language sources suggested that strikes targeted an al-Qaeda “training centre” in the town of Jabal Novan, in the area of Qaifa. These

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مدرسة أبو عاصي تابعة لوكالة أونروا في مخيم الشاطئ, UNRWA school, Al Shati camp, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Early in the morning of November 2nd 2023, five civilians, including two children, one of them 5-year-old Hala Khalil Fayez Barakat and her mother Rudiynah, were killed and dozens of others were injured while sheltering at the Abu Assi school which is affiliated with the United Nation Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, after reports of Israeli

Summary

(2 children1 woman)

12–24

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (other)

طرابلس‎: الهضبة طول, Tripoli: Hadaba Tawal, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

One civilian was allegedly killed and two more injured by LNA shelling on the Hadaba project area of Tripoli. Al Wasat wrote: “A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Government of Al-Wefaq, Amin al-Hashemi, announced that a citizen was killed by a random shell that landed in the ‘Hadaba Tawal’ area, south of

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المعسكر الغربي غرب خانيونس, Western Camp, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the morning of Thursday, October 26, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Abu Shamala family residency and neighbouring homes on al-Bair street in the Western Camp, Block 6, west of the city of Khan Younis, resulted in at least 51 civilians killed, including at least 18 children and 19 women, and more than

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

(18–20 children19 women12 men)

101

52 named, 7 families identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

الحوطة, Al Hawta, Shabwa, Yemen

LOCATION

According to Al-Jazeera, its sources reported that US drone strikes targeted alleged AQAP sites in Al Hawta, in Shabwa governorate, at some time from March 29th to March 30th. The news organisation reported that casualties from the strikes were unknown. No other known sources independently reported these strikes. This reported event took place amid a

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مدرسة العز بن عبدالسلام في مخيم النصيرات, Al Izz Bin Abdulsalam School, Al Nuseirat Camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 7:30 AM on Saturday, August 26, 2024, Israeli forces allegedly bombed Al Izz Bin Abdulsalam School, a school sheltering displaced persons located north of the Al Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing two individuals, including at least one woman. Many others, including women and children, sustained injuries, although the exact

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Education, IDP or Refugee Camp

2 – 4

(1–2 children1–2 women)

12–24

مديرية مودية, Al Bazqama and Riman area, Mudiyah District, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

Reported US drone strikes targeted alleged AQAP militants in the Al Bazqama and Riman area of Mudiyah, Abyan governorate at dawn on March 31st 2017. There were no known reports of civilian casualties, though some sources claimed that a civilian farm had been destroyed. Alittihad reported that, according to a local source, three strikes took

Summary

2–3

الزرارية, قضاء صيدا, Al-Zarariyya, Sidon District, Lebanon

LOCATION

A young paramedic was killed alongside two other civilians, including at least one child, in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the town of Al-Zarariyya in southern Lebanon on September 23, 2024. Social media posts on September 23 and 24, 2024, shared details of the airstrike in Al-Zarariyya (Zrarieh), Lebanon, reporting casualties and providing updates on

Summary

3 – 4

(1–2 children1–2 men)

Exact location (via Airwars)

النجاد العذلان, Al Nijad Al Adhlan, Ma'rib, Yemen

LOCATION

Up to five civilians, including a fifteen-year-old boy and man over the age of 70, were reportedly killed in a US special forces ground operation in Al Khthala village, in the Al Jubah area of Marib governorate, beginning at around 1am on May 23rd 2017, though official US accounts of the raid claimed that there

Summary

Airstrike, Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground), Drone Strike

Residential

2 – 12

(1 child4–11 men)

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

2–10

Causes of injury / death

Known belligerent

Known target

11 named, 1 familiy identified

Belligerents reported injured

4–9

2–10

بلدة عين بعال في قضاء صور, town of Ain Baal in Sour district, Lebanon, Lebanon

LOCATION

On the evening of September 23rd 2024, an alleged Israeli airstrike destroyed a five-storey building on “the main street” of the town of Ain Baal in the Tyre (Sour) district of Lebanon, killing at least five civilians, including two women and three men, and one potential militant. Airwars researchers identified the names of five civilians

Summary

5 – 6

(2 women3–4 men)

0–1

بنغازي‎, Omar al-Mukhtar mausoleum, Benghazi, Libya

LOCATION

Local sources reported airstrikes in multiple areas of Benghazi – including Sabri, the fish market area at the tomb of Omar al-Mukhtar, the municipal hotel, the Republic Hospital and the Al-Nuran Hotel. According to a report in Akhbar Alaan, the LNA announced ten strikes on militants in the city. Other sources put the number of

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Libyan National Army, Egyptian Military

سوق الجمعة , Souq Al Jumaa, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

One civilian was allegedly killed and another one allegedly injured by LNA shelling on the Souq Al Jumaa area of Tripoli. Field Medicine and Support Center: “The follow-up team at the Center for Field Medicine and Support after shells landed on Souq Al Joumaa area went to the dreaded place to find out the number

Summary

1 – 2

مجمع الشفاء الطبي، مدينة غزة, Al-Shifa Medical Hospital, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the afternoon of November 6, 2023, at least one civilian, a child, was killed and at least four other people, including a woman, were injured in an alleged Israeli strike on the fifth floor of al-Quds building of the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, Gaza Strip that hosted hundreds of displaced people At

Summary

1 – 4

(1 child)

4–5

LOCATION

سرت‎, Sirte, Surt, Libya

On December 2nd, Mohamed Lajnef posted pictures of two injured children on Facebook, saying they had been liberated from ISIS. On December 5th Libya’s Channel reported Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous rescued over a hundred children and women from ISIS, some of the children severely injured. It showed pictures of two children: one is the same depicted in

Summary

0–2

Government of National Accord, US Forces

الطويشة, Altwaisha, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

Between one and three medics where reportedly injured in an LNA attack on an ambulance in Qasr Bin Gashir, possibly with artillery. OCHA published a statement on the incident saying: “An armoured ambulance vehicle carrying the Director of the Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services was directly attacked yesterday in Twaisha area in Qasr bin Ghashir

Summary

1–3

1 named

مبارك, Mubarak, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

Eight Al Shabaab militants were allegedly killed by three US strikes near Mubaraak. The AFRICOM press release said: “In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted three (3) airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab terrorists in the vicinity of Mubaraak, Somalia, Apr. 5. The command’s initial assessment concluded these airstrikes killed eight (8) terrorists.

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قرية بيلونية, outskirts of the town of Tal Rifaat, east of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

During the morning of Sunday, March 17, 2024, at approximately 10:30 am, an alleged Turkish drone strike killed one civilian man and injured another man on the outskirts of the town of Tal Rifaat while they were heading towards Biluniya Village located in Al-Shahba district north of Aleppo, Syria. Ali Abdul Rahman Muhammad, an 18-year-old

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الوشكة, Al-Wushka, Surt, Libya

LOCATION

According to various local sources a GNA/Misurata Air Force airstrike hit a car while targeting ISIS forces. Two members of the al-Mazoughi family, a man and his wife, were reportedly severely injured. The incident took place near the villages Al-Washka, Al-Qadihah and Zamzam. In addition, ten ISIS members were reported killed in the strike, including

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Government of National Accord

ISIS - Libya

الخديرة, Awadh Abd Al Nabi school in the village Al Khadira, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

Between three and 15 Al Qaeda members were killed and up to 15 others were injured in confirmed US airstrikes conducted by a mix of drones and manned aircrafts under the US Department of Defence’s control on Awadh Abd Al Nabi school in the village Al Khadira on January 31, 2012. There were no known

Summary

Education

Known belligerent

Known target

Belligerents reported injured

3–15

2–15

صيدلية بن فضل, Bin Fadl pharmacy, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

One civilian was killed and four other injured by alleged LNA shelling on the Souq Al Jumaa neighbourhood of Tripoli. Tk Yahroug Kl shy reported that “Naji Al-Badiri passed away and a daughter was injured as a result of the fall of a shell in the Al-Hajrasa area of Souq Al Jumaa.” The Libya Observer

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