The Civilian Harm Watchdog

Authors

Rowena De Silva

Rowena is an investigator in the Investigations and Accountability Unit.

Investigations, Policy

The U.S. killed almost as many civilians in 52 days as the previous 23 years of U.S. action in Yemen

How does Trump’s eight-week bombing campaign compare to the history of U.S. military action in Yemen?

Investigations, Policy

What the chats signal about Trump’s Yemen bombing campaign

Ignore the leaked messages - Trump's campaign is far more deadly than Biden's

Israel, Palestinian territories

A Long Return

A short film juxtaposing two videos along the same Gaza road. Taken five years apart, in 2020 and 2025, the footage is synchronised to illustrate the devastating impact of Gaza war

Is a final Syrian civilian casualty count possible?

The challenges and methodologies of reconciling conflicting Syrian civilian death tolls

Investigations, Policy

Israel, Palestinian territories

The Killings They Tweeted

Matching Israeli military strike footage to civilian casualties on the ground to reveal full human cost of 'precise' campaign

Investigations, Policy

Israel, Palestinian territories

One Name, Two Lists

Cross-referencing open source evidence with Gaza Health Ministry data finds early Ministry death figures largely accurate

Policy, Research

Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Yemen

Analysis: U.S. declares its military actions worldwide killed no civilians in 2022

The US declares its military actions in 2022 resulted in no civilians killed or injured. Airwars finds otherwise

Palestinians inspect the ruins of Watan Tower destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza city, on October 8, 2023 (Wafa).

Investigations, Policy

Israel, Palestinian territories

No safe place – tracking civilian harm in southern Gaza

Tracking civilians killed in Gaza's designated 'safe zones' and how supposed havens became sites of fatal strikes