Civilian Casualties

8 – 9

السطر الغربي، خان يونس, Al Satar Al Gharbi area, Khan Yunis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the evening of November 1, 2023, siblings Muhammed, Abdullah, and Yahya were killed by an alleged Israeli bombing in the Al Satar Al Gharbi area in Khan Younis. At 18:07, the Palestinian Press Agency (SafaPs) reported the three killed in the bombing of a donkey-drawn cart during a raid on Khan Younis. Various other

Summary

3 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

كيسته, Kesta, Duhok, Iraq

LOCATION

Two women were injured in alleged Turkish artillery shelling and/or heavy machine gun fire on Kesta village in Kani Massi district on June 17, 2022 Shafaq News reported that Turkish forces launched artillery against Kesta Village, north of Duhok, which resulted in the injury of two women. Omed Kestayi, chieftain (mukhtar) of Kesta village in

Summary

Artillery, Ground operation

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

Causes of injury / death

الطويحينة, Al Tweihina, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Airstrikes, possibly carried out by Turkish forces, killed one civilian according to one local report. Others referred only to violent clashes between non state actors. Smart News Agency reported that “international Coalition aircraft” targeting ISIS in Al Tweihina which it said killed one civilian and two members of the terror group. However, the report identified

Summary

US-led Coalition, Turkish Military

حي الزهور، رفح, Al-Zahour neighbourhood, Rafah City, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

In the evening of July 15th 2024, an alleged Israeli military bombardment killed two men from the same family, 56-year-old Kamel Ahmed Siam and 47-year-old Darwish Sharif Siam. The incident occurred in the Al-Zahour neighbourhood, north of Rafah City, the Gaza Strip, and was reported by multiple sources. Among these sources was the Safa Press

Summary

(2 men)

Names matched with MoH IDs

Neighbourhood/area

مديرية الصومعة, As Sawma'ah District, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Three alleged AQAP militants were reportedly killed by a US drone strike in Sama’a directorate, Bayda governorate, on the evening of January 9th 2018. There were no known associated reports of civilian harm. Several Twitter and local-language news sources reported the strike, including Al-Masdar Online, @demolinari, and Al-Arabi. A tribal leader told Anatolia Agency that

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Known belligerent

US Forces

Known target

حي الزهراء, Mosul, al-Zahra, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Nine civilians were killed in alleged coalition strikes in eastern Mosul, according to local reports. Orient News cited an Iraqi security source and reported the killing of nine civilians in an air strike that hit two houses in the east of Mosul, and wrote that it was likely carried out by the Coalition. Al Manar and News

Summary

بلدة طاريا بعلبك - الهرمل, Taraya, Baalbek - Al-Hermel, Lebanon

LOCATION

At least 11 civilians, all members of the Hamiya family, were reported killed after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the town of Taraya in the Bekaa region of southern Lebanon on September 23rd, 2024. While one source alleged “others were wounded” and another claimed “50” had been injured, it is unclear whether these injuries occurred

Summary

(2 children5 women4 men)

2–50

Impact

11 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

0–1

تل زيوان, Tal Ziwan, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

On July 25th 2022, an alleged Turkish shelling left civilians wounded in Tal Ziwan village, northeast of Al Qamishli, in Al Hassakah, Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that an officer in the Syrian regime forces was injured in this bombardment, carried out by Turkish forces stationed at the border outposts in this

Summary

Turkish Military

شنينة, Shanina (and al Rihat, Ba’as and Abu Hassan), Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Seven civilians were reported killed and 15 injured following reported Coalition strikes on three villages to the north of Raqqa. Although multiple sources noted the raids, only Smart news alleged civilian casualties.

Summary

مدرسة حليمة السعدية، نزلة, Halima Al Sa’dia School, Jabalia Al Nazla, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Around midnight on September 7, 2024, a declared Israeli strike with two missiles on the tents for displaced people who were sheltering at the Hamlia Al Sa’dia school in Jabalia Al Nazla in the northern Gaza Strip resulted in at least four civilian deaths, including a woman, and injuries of 15 to 19 civilians. The

Summary

Infrastructure

Education

4 – 8

(1 woman3 men)

15–19

Exact location (other)

الدايس, Al Dabes, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Between one and three civilians, including up to two women, were killed and between two and nine others, including two women and a child, were injured in alleged Syrian Democratic Forces shelling or missile strikes on the village of Al Dabes on October 11, 2021. The Aleppo correspondent for @HalabTodayTV reported that a civilian was

Summary

1 – 3

(1–2 women1 man)

2–9

Syrian Democratic Forces, Unknown

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an alleged incident previously unknown to Airwars, the Coalition noted in January 2017 that Nov. 28, 2016, near Mosul, Iraq: No Coalition strikes were conducted on structures in the geographic area that correspond to the report of civilian casualties. A senior official later informed Airwars that the alleged incident had come to light as

Summary

0 – 1

0–1

جنوب دمشق, areas of Aqraba and Zainabiya in the vicinity of the city of Sayyida Zeinab, Damascus, Damascus, Syria

LOCATION

On Monday, 29th January 2024, at approximately 1:00 pm, a number of civilians, including a civilian man, Ahmar Mahmoud Qaq, were killed and a number of others were injured as a result of an alleged airstrike by the Israeli military and/or the Syrian regime forces on a farm between the towns of Aqraba and Zainabiya

Summary

Agriculture, Livestock

1 – 2

(1 man)

Israeli Military, Syrian Regime

1 named

1–3

اعزاز, Azaz, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Two or three civilians were reported injured in an alleged YPG artillery attack on Azaz, Aleppo governorate in Syria, on November 23rd, 2019, according to local sources.

Summary

2–3

YPG

حي السكر, Mosul, Sukkar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

According to local sources, up to 17 people were killed as a result of airstrikes on their homes in the Sukkar (Sugar) district, Mosul. The bodies were pulled from the rubble on January 8th, 2017. Airwars contacted the Canadian-based elder brother of the family, who provided 11 names, photos and ages of eleven victims. All

Summary

(4–5 children1–2 women4 men)

11 – 17

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

11 named, 1 familiy identified

بلاط, Blat, Marjeyoun District, Lebanon

LOCATION

On Monday, September 23rd 2024, an elderly woman named Jamila Kamel Sakina was killed during the alleged Israeli bombing of the Town of Jabal Blat, in the south of Lebanon. Several social media posts reported that Hajja Jamila Kamel Sakina was killed by an Israeli bombing of the town of Jabal Blat, along with an

Summary

(1 woman)

أبو راسين, Abo Rasin, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported that the civilian Abdul Hamid Al-Abdullah from Al Arada village was executed by YPG/SDF forces on a checkpoint in Abu Rasin in Hasakah on December 1st, 2019. No more details are available.

Summary

(1 man)

حي المثنى, Mosul, Muthanna, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources said two named civilians (a father and son) were killed after a missile targeted their house in the left side of Mosul. Mosul Ateka reported that “a missile fell down just beside Haj Dahir which caused his death and that of his son Zakariah.” Iraqyoon News and Resistance Hadbah also reported Coalition airstrikes

Summary

(2 men)

الهرمل, Hermel, Hermel District, Lebanon

LOCATION

On Monday, September 23, 2024, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the town of Hermel in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon killed four civilians. Those killed were named online as: Hussein Nasser al-Din, his wife, Zainab Nasser al-Din, and their two daughters, Retaj Nasser al-Din and Zahraa Nasser al-Din. A number of different online sources posted news updates

Summary

(2 children1 woman1 man)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

مخيم مخمور, Makhmour camp, Erbil, Iraq

LOCATION

At least one civilian was killed and up to four others were injured, including women and children, when a Turkish airplane or drone launched strikes on a home in Makhmour camp on August 29, 2022. Some local sources indicate that a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was also killed in the incident. Hawar

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

مزرعة الرشيد, Al Rashid farms, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A reported Coalition airstrike on an ‘ISIL car’ was said to have missed its target, possibly causing civilian casualties. According to al Natek, “the air raid that targeted al Rashid Farm targeted an IS car but it didn’t hit it. Step News reported that “International coalition planes targeted with several raids Abu Kubra village and

Summary

0 – 1

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

Impact

Koltepe village, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was injured in alleged Turkish airstrikes or drone strikes on Koltepe village and the surrounding villages on January 8, 2022. According to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in total one civilian was killed and 12 other civilians, including women and children, were wounded in incidents across Kobani. The injuries varied in severity and

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Turkish Military

1 named, 1 familiy identified

مدرسة الفوقا، مخيم جباليا, Hafsa Al Fawqa School, Jabalia camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 3:41 PM on Sunday, October 20, 2024, at least two people were killed and four people injured as a result of an alleged Israeli artillery strike on the Hafsa School, affiliated with UNRWA. The school was serving as a shelter for displaced people and is located near Abu Rashid Pool in Jabalia Refugee

Summary

Education, IDP or Refugee Camp

(1 child1 man)

Impact

Nearby landmark

مخيم مرام, Maram Refugee Camp, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Between six and 11 civilians, including up to four children, an elderly woman and a pregnant woman, were killed and up to 77 others, including a woman and five children, were injured by alleged Russian, Syrian regime, or Iranian militia missile attacks with cluster bombs against Maram refugee camp and other refugee camps closeby on

Summary

Infrastructure

IDP or Refugee Camp

(2–4 children1–2 women2 men)

6 – 11

40–77

Russian Military, Iranian Military, Syrian Regime

20 named, 3 families identified

17 تموز, Mosul, July 17th, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident previously reported by so-called Islamic State, the Coalition confirmed on April 1st that it had accidentally injured three non-combatants in an attack. ISIS had reported five deaths and 29 injuries. Locals also said at least five people had died. The Coalition noted in its April 2017 casualty report: “near Mosul, Iraq, via

Summary

(2 children1 woman)

3–29

Known belligerent

مدرسة الزيتون حي الزيتون، مدينة غزة, Al Falah School, Al Zeitoun neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 10:45 AM on Saturday, September 21st 2024, the Israeli military conducted an airstrike on the Al Falah (Al-Zaitoun C) school located in Al Zaitoun neighbourhood “C”, southeast of Gaza City. The school was reportedly sheltering displaced people, mainly women and children. Israeli forces declared the strike, claiming they were targeting a “command and

Summary

(15 children5–7 women4 men)

24 – 26

29–30

28 named, 9 families identified

Exact location (other)

Bulo Madina, Lower Shabelle, Somalia

LOCATION

Over 49 al-Shabaab militants were reportedly killed and others were wounded by Somali forces and “international partner” airstrikes/ground operations in the Bulo Madina area of Lower Shabelle on November 22, 2022. Garrote Online reported that according to the Ministry of Information, over 49 militants were killed by an airstrike following an operation by the Somali

Summary

Airstrike, Ground operation

US Forces, Somali Military Forces, International Forces (Unknown)

Belligerents reported injured

مدينة الطب, Mosul, Medical City Hospital, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Several sources claimed that civilians died in a Coalition airstrike on a medical complex in western Mosul. While Iraqi Spring and Raedlay spoke of 18 dead and 47 wounded, News of Iraq reported the death of a child in a video. The Coalition confirmed to have carried out the strike, but did not state any

Summary

(1 child)