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Airwars Assessment
(Previous Incident Code: S1200b)
In this single-source event, a family of five, including two children and one woman, were killed as alleged Coalition airstrike hit a house in which the family had sought shelter in, in al-Badu, Raqqa, Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality, reported.
Amnesty’s field researcher reported that the family was internally displaced from elsewhere in the city. They left their own home when artillery shells struck the house and went to shelter in another house, and then another house and then another house and then this house. Several other relatives, including the two children’s parent, survived.
However, it should be noted that local sources mentioned that two of the victims, Sinjar Fares Hassan and Maha al-Nasser, were killed on September 12th, 2017 instead of August 14th. Though, Airwars assess that it is most likely that they were killed on the first reported day, August 14th.
However, it appears that some of their relatives were killed on September 12th, also in al-Badu, Raqqa (see CS1474).
The event is graded ‘weak’ despite several reports about civilian harm, especially the deaths of Sinjar and Maha. However, it is only the joint Amnesty and Airwars report that reports that the deaths took place on August 14th, 2017.
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Family members (5)