The Civilian Harm Watchdog

Military Actors

Palestinian Militants

Palestinian militant groups, in particular Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have fought a number of conflicts with Israel.

Airwars tracked all allegations of civilian harm caused by Palestinian militants during the 2021 war between Israel and Hamas and other groups in Gaza.

60 incidents involving Palestinian Militants

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Conflicts monitored involving Palestinian Militants

Israel and Gaza 2021

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Incident Date

Incident Code

Location

بالقرب من بيت لاهيا, Vicinity of Beit Lahia, North Gaza, Palestinian territories

On July 15th, 2024, ambulance and emergency services reported to have recovered the bodies of two civilians in the Bedouin village northeast of Beit Lahia city in the northern Gaza Strip. This information was tweeted by numerous Twitter/X users, including Safa and Quds news agencies around 1:23 PM, but it was not clear whether the…

Summary

15 December 2024

Civilians reported killed

Israeli Military, Palestinian Militants

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Incident Code

Location

منزل لعائلة الصليبي, Al Salibi family house, Jabalia, North Gaza, Palestinian territories

Two civilians were reported killed after an alleged bombardment on July 15, 2024 on the market area of Gaza’s Jabalia Camp. On July 15, 2024, multiple sources, including X users @ShehabAgency and @PalinfoAr, as well as Facebook pages 5newspal, Pdnps, Dcdgovps, Sadapalnews, Mohammed Al-Najjar, Alarabiya.Palestine, VOP94, and AlHadath.Palestine, reported on the deaths of two individuals…

Summary

15 December 2024

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military, Palestinian Militants

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Incident Date

Incident Code

Location

مخيم جباليا, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, Palestinian territories

Two civilians were reported killed after an alleged bombardment on July 15, 2024 on the market area of Gaza’s Jabalia Camp. On July 15, 2024, multiple sources, including X users @ShehabAgency and @PalinfoAr, as well as Facebook pages 5newspal, Pdnps, Dcdgovps, Sadapalnews, Mohammed Al-Najjar, Alarabiya.Palestine, VOP94, and AlHadath.Palestine, reported on the deaths of two individuals…

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military, Palestinian Militants

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Incident Date

15 November 2023

Incident Code

Location

شارع المغربي في حي الصبرة مدينة غزة, Al Sabra neighborhood, Gaza city, Gaza, Palestinian territories

At least one man and his daughter were reportedly injured by a bombing on the morning of Wednesday, November 15th 2023, while standing on Al Moghrabi Street (also known as Moneer al-Rayees Street) in the Al Sabra neighbourhood, of Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip. The father Bilal Al-Ashram reportedly died of his injuries…

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Denial of access to/destruction of objects indispensable to survival

Palestinian Militants, Israeli Military

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Research and Investigations

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

Investigations, Policy

Palestinian territories, Israel

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

Palestinian territories

Methodology note: Civilian harm from explosive weapons use in Gaza

How we're applying our methodology

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Civilian harm fell in 2021, Airwars annual report finds

Civilian harm dropped across most of the major conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in 2021, Airwars’ annual report has found. The number of allegations of civilians killed by nearly all belligerents monitored by Airwars fell in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, though there was an escalation in the Israel-Palestinian conflict which […]

Syria, Palestinian territories, Israel

Israeli strikes on Gaza in May killed up to ten times as many civilians as lengthy Syria campaign, Airwars finds

'Why did they bomb us?' report finds major difference in military tactics, and outcomes for civilians