During the morning of Wednesday, January 8, 2025, up to five civilians, including two women, were killed, and 15 civilians, including two journalists, were injured following an alleged Turkish airstrike and/or drone strike on a civilian convoy heading to the Tishreen Dam located in the vicinity of Manbij, east of Aleppo, Syria. According to Hawar News and ANF News, the alleged Turkish strike attacked the civilian convoy before it reached the dam, in particular, hitting an ambulance and a civilian car. Rohani TV added that the bombing happened near the Sarrin junction.

Initial reports listed three civilians killed, but subsequent reports by Hawar News, Arta FM, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) indicated that the death toll had reached five, including a civilian woman.

On January 9, 2025, Rohani.tv published the names of the three identified victims: two women, Zuzan Hammou (Hamo) and  Karam Shahabi, who was a member of the Zenobia Gathering, a humanitarian NGO in Syria and Turkey run by women. A young man or teenager named Azaad Farhan Muhammad Hassan, a member of the Syrian Revolutionary Youth Movement, was also killed.

Rohani.tv made a collage of the images of the victims alongside two victims in the village of Kark in the Kobani countryside documented separately. Zuzan Hammou is seen as a very young woman with long dark hair, wearing a dark fleece jumper, and gently smiling in the image. Karam Shahabi was also a young woman wearing a yellow dress and a yellow hijab. She had bright makeup, with accentuated eyebrows and red lipstick. Azaad was a young man or teenager, wearing a black turtleneck and a black leather jacket.

Syrian Hawar News Agency published a list of the names of the civilians who had been injured in the strike: Diyar Muhammad Haji, Muhammad Mustafa Aql, Hussein Salem Suleiman, Mustafa Mahmoud Youssef, Aref Ali Ahmed, Muhammad Antar Bako, Dalil Abdullah Muhammad (seriously injured), Aldar Abdul Aziz Ibrahim, Sheeda, Najib Barkal, Masoud Fattah Aqil, Muhammad Othman Daban, Mahmoud Hassan Shaheen, Faiha Ali, and Ibrahim Khalil Saleh. The local sources wrote that the wounded were transferred to hospitals in the area, and some of them had serious injuries.

Although the SOHR mentioned that two journalists were among the injuries, their names and affiliations were not reported.

Roj News provided more detailed information on the civilian convoy that had been attacked. In particular, thousands of civilian cars from the Jazira, Raqqa, Tabqa and Euphrates cantons headed towards Tishreen Dam, in order to stop the reported attacks of the Turkish military and affiliated militias, who had been launching attacks on Tishreen Dam and Qarqozak Bridge since December 8, 2024. The convoys included representatives of the Jazira, Raqqa, Tabqa and Euphrates cantons, including Kurds, Arabs and Syrians, who were determined to protect the dam, “a source of water and life for them.”

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) issued a statement, announcing that a civilian convoy from northeastern Syria, which was heading to Tishrin Dam to demand an end to “Turkish attacks,” was “bombed by Turkish drones”, resulting in deaths and injuries.

Rudaw News posted two images related to the event. One image showed a large cloud of white smoke rising over the convoy of cars, while the second blurred image showed one of the victims – it is unclear if they have been killed on injured. Roj News added an additional image where two bodies of civilians, either killed or injured, are seen lying on the ground.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Turkish military. However, the sources conflicted on the nature of the attack, some claiming the Turkish military used drones, while others, including ANF, reported that a military aircraft attacked the civilians.