Civilian Casualties

(2 women3 men)

Impact

5 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

شقرة, Shaqra, Abyan, Yemen

LOCATION

On September 21 2011, alleged US airstrikes on the town of Shaqra in Yemen’s southern Abyan province killed six to seven alleged AQAP militants. One outlet, AFP, stated that three alleged militants were injured in the strike. There are no reported cases of civilian harm. Aden Online and Long War Journal put the number of

Summary

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Known belligerent

US Forces

Suspected target

Town

Belligerents reported injured

6–7

حساجك, Hassadjek, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

At least 6 people were killed by airstrikes in the vicinity of Hassadjek village in Aleppo, though the circumstances were unclear. Initially, Voice of Kurdistan blamed the US-led Coalition for a strike occurring around 3am, which it said left six people dead and four wounded. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that Russian and Syrian government

Summary

US-led Coalition, Turkish Military

علاتا قرب أرمناز, house of the Amna family in Alata near Armanaz, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

During the late evening of Monday, December 26th, 2023, five members of the Amna family were killed and the surviving member, a young son, injured, when an alleged airstrike by a Russian warplane hit their home on a farm in Alata, near the town of Armanaz, west of Idlib, Syria, and reduced it to rubble.

Summary

(3 children1 woman1 man)

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

سهل عكار, Sahel Akkar, Tartus, Syria

LOCATION

At least two civilians, including a woman, were injured in alleged Israeli strikes on Hamidiya town on July 2, 2022. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), two civilians, including a woman, were injured and material damage was caused when Israeli missiles struck a number of poultry farms near Hamidiya town. A military source

Summary

Hezbollah, Iranian military

Suspected targets

1 named

معرة مصرين, Maraat Misrin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

Airstrikes variously blamed on the Coalition, on Russia and on the Assad regime targeted Fatah al Sham positions in Maarat Mislin, reportedly also killing four civilians and injuring at least two more. Initial reports – which said the town was struck three times – claimed either Russia or the Assad regime was responsible. The Syrian

Summary

2–10

US-led Coalition, Russian Military, Syrian Regime

بالقرب من مفرق الشجاعية، الشجاعية، مدينة غزة, Al-Shujaiya Junction, Al-Shujaiya neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the night of August 1st 2024, at least two civilians, including a young man named Muhammad Shaker al-Jaabari, were reportedly killed and others injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike at the Al-Shujaiya junction to the east of Gaza City. Multiple news and social media sources reported the attack. Sources suggested that the attack was

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

2 – 3

(1 man)

الموزرة, Al Mozra, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

At least one civilian was injured in alleged Syrian regime or Russian shelling of the village of Al Mozra on July 22, 2022. The Syrian Civil Defense (@SyriaCivilDefe) tweeted that one civilian was wounded by artillery shelling by the Syrian regime and Russian forces on the village of Al Mozra. Various other sources, including the

Summary

1–2

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

تل عفر, Tall Afar, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

In an incident previously unknown to Airwars, the Coalition later confirmed the injury of one civilian near Tal Afar, Iraq. Their March 2017 civilian casualty report noted: “Nov. 14, 2016, near Tal Afar, Iraq, via self-report: During a strike on an ISIS checkpoint it was assessed that one civilian was unintentionally injured when the vehicle

Summary

Known belligerent

طير دبا, Tayr Debba, South Governorate, Lebanon

LOCATION

During the night of Sunday, September 29, 2024, at around 1 AM, four paramedics, all young men and one of whom has contested civilian status, were killed and a number of civilians were injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house near the civil defense center associated with the Al-Risala Association

Summary

Civil Defense Station, Emergency Services, Residential

3 – 4

(3–4 men)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

0–1

near Beledweyne, Hiiraan, Somalia

LOCATION

Four Al-Shabaab members were killed by three declared US airstrikes near Beledweyne on August 9, 2022. Somalia state media was the first to report on August 9th that “at the request of Somali Government, #US launched a strike in support of Somali National Army forces conducting counterterrorism operations in #Hiran region. There were no civilians

Summary

الرطبة, Al Rutba, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Two unnamed civilians were reported killed by an alleged Coalition airstrike on al Rutba. According to Shaam News, “two civilians were martyred by the bombing of the international coalition aircraft on al Rutba village north of Raqqa.” Al Araby al Jadid also reported that “Civilians were killed and wounded in raids by the international coalition

Summary

منزل عائلة أبو طاقة في منطقة الشهداء غرب مخيم جبالي, Rafidah School, Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Deir al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At approximately 11:30 AM, on Thursday, October 10, 2024, a declared Israeli airstrike hit the Rafidah School in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. The attack killed at least 30 civilians, including seven women and four children, and injured at least 54 others. At the time of the strike, the school was sheltering hundreds of displaced

Summary

Education, Healthcare, Temporary Healthcare Facility

(4 children7 women19–20 men)

30 – 31

54–91

Known belligerent

31 named, 6 families identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

0–1

النيربية, Al Nayribiyah, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

An elderly woman was injured in alleged Turkish shelling of Al Nayribiyah village on August 19, 2022. Hawar News Agency reported that a woman and a child were injured as a result of Turkish forces bombing the villages of the countryside of Al-Shahba canton, including the villages of Karamel, Hassin, Ain Deqina and Baylouniyah, in

Summary

النور والتأميم, Mosul, Noor and Ta’mim, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Fifteen civilians were reported killed in fighting between ISIL and Iraqi forces. Said Noor Ahmed Halbusi, a doctor at a field hospital, told Anadolu he had received 15 bodies, including seven from one family. The civilians were killed in fighting between Iraqi forces and ISIL inside Mosul it said. Yaqein reported the same figures but

Summary

بالقرب من مسجد الخلفاء الراشدين، مخيم جباليا, Vicinity of Al-Khalafa Al-Rashidun Mosque, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On November 5, 2023, Israeli aircraft allegedly bombed the Abu Shaqfa family’s house opposite the Rashidun Caliphs Mosque in the middle of Jabalia camp, north of Gaza. Two people were reportedly killed with several others injured in the incident. Photographs on social media show an elderly man covered in dust being escorted by two medics

Summary

IDP or Refugee Camp, Mosque, Religious

2–5

باب الخير شمال راس العين , Bab Al kheer, northen Ras Al Ain, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

One civilian was reportedly killed by YPG forces in Bab Al kheer, northen Ras Al Ain. Suriye.u.a.d reported: “The gangs of #PYD_YPG_PKK assassinate the civilian Ismail Mohammed Mulla Matar on charges of dealing with the Syrian National Army in the village of Bab al-Khair east # Ras_alain”.

Summary

Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

(1 man)

دوميز, Mosul, Domiz, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Five civilians were killed and four injured in the Domiz neighbourhood of Mosul, according to local media. A local source told Shafaaq news that an “unidentified warplane” opened fire from its on-board machine gun in the neighbourhood in south-east Mosul. The story was also reported by Nineveh Media Center, confirming the death of five and

Summary

US-led Coalition, Unknown

حافلة تقل مواطنين في شارع 10 جنوبي مدينة غزة, A bus on Street 10, South Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

During the morning of October 29, 2023, a bus on Street 10 south of Gaza City was allegedly struck by an Israeli airstrike while carrying civilians resulting in “a number” of civilians killed and injured. A photo from Roya News showed the vehicle completely destroyed and burned with the windows broken and pieces of rubble

Summary

قرية سكينة, Medical center in the village of Sakina, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

At least eight people were killed, including four members of the medical staff at a hospital and four fighters of the Sinjar Resistance Units who were receiving treatment at a hospital, and four others were injured in alleged Turkish strikes on Al-Askiniyah Hospital in the village of Sakina in Sinjar district on August 17, 2021.

Summary

Turkish Military

Suspected target

Iraqi militias (PMUs)

8 named

حي العريض, Al-Arid neighbourhood, Nabatieh, Nabatieh, Lebanon

LOCATION

Muhammad Hassan Suwaidan, a doctor, was wounded after an alleged “raid” on 27 September, 2024, in the Al-Arid neighbourhood of Nabatieh; he died from his wounds the following day. Facebook user Ali Tormos declared Muhammad a “precious youth”, and included a widely-shared photograph of Muhammad, a bearded man. Remembered as “dear”, a burial was held

Summary

(1 man)

Israeli Military, Hezbollah Forces

1 named

قرية كلبيت ,ريف ادلب الشمالي,ادلب, Kalbid area, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On September 27th 2022, between two and eight civilians were reportedly injured, including an elderly woman and a young man, when a Russian air strike hit a refugee camp in the Kalbid area, near the Bal al-Hawa border crossing in Syria. One Syrian Civil Defense volunteer, Hamza Al-Jassem, stated after being at the scene, “it

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Infrastructure

IDP or Refugee Camp

2–8

Russian Military

الرقة‎, Ar Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A single source, Smart News, reported that “IS members were killed and civilians injured on Thursday, in aerial bombardment likely to be by the international coalition which targeted an IS vehicle east of the city of Raqqa, according to witnesses and medical sources.” No further details are currently available.

Summary

بلدة شمعة, the town of Shamaa, southern governorate, Lebanon

LOCATION

code: ISLB271124g
incident_date: 2024-11-27
status: publish
civilian_harm_status: Weak

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

عقيبة, Aqiba, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

Two children were injured in alleged Turkish shelling of the village of Aqiba on October 27, 2022. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that two children were injured by Turkish shelling of civilian homes in the village of Aqiba. SOHR added that Turkish forces launched more than 15 artillery shells at the village

Summary

Turkish Military

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Village

سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

A confirmed US airstrike on a militant group reportedly linked to Al Qaeda also possibly killed or injured a number of civilians. According to Step News, 12 or more members of new group Hai’at Tahrir al Sham were killed in a raid targeting a meeting on the edges of Sarmin. As Step News explained, “Hai’at

Summary

0 – 10

عناصر تأمين المساعدات في منطقة المشروع شرقي مدينة رفح, Al-Mashrou’ area, east of Rafah, Gaza Strip, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 10:35 am on the 15th of October 2024, five humanitarian aid security personnel were reported injured by an alleged Israeli drone strike on the Al-Mashrou’ area, east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip. Safa PS initially reported at 10:35 am that there were five injuries as a result of the reported

Summary

المصرف, Al Masraf, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Three civilians were injured by alleged Turkish airstrikes that struck a civilian car in the village of Masraf on November 23, 2022. ANF reported that three people were injured when Turkish forces bombed a civilian car in the village of Masraf. The injured civilians were transferred to Qamishli Hospital for treatment. Both Hawar News and

Summary