Geolocation
Airwars assessment
Relatives reported that four or more members of the Al-Fakhri family were among those who died after airstrikes hit their house in Old Mosul.
Iraqi Spring Media Centre reported: “Eyewitnesses reported that nine civilians from two families were killed in aerial bombardment of coalition forces and artillery. The government forces targeted residential houses in the vicinity of Al Hayah neighbourhood on the right side of Mosul, including six of the family of the former Iraqi army’s Hisham Sabah al-Fakhri.” Iraqyoon also blamed the Coalition.
The incident was first reported on April 20, 2017 at 3:37 am by Iraqyoon Agency.
The victims were named as:
Family members (4)
Summary
Sources (9) [ collapse]
Media
from sources (2) [ collapse]
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Hassan Ali al-Fakhri and his son Hassan. They reportedly died together with two other family members in Coalition airstrikes on West Mosul, on April 19th (via Iraqyoon Agency)
Geolocation notes (1) [ collapse]
Reports of the incident only mention Old Mosul. The generic coordinates for Old Mosul are: 36.34075 43.126911
Attached to this civilian harm incident is a provisional reconciliation of the Pentagon's declassified assessment of this civilian harm allegation, based on matching date and locational information.
The declassified documents were obtained by Azmat Khan and the New York Times through Freedom of Information requests and lawsuits filed since March 2017, and are included alongside the corresponding press release published by the Pentagon. Airwars is currently analysing the contents of each file, and will update our own assessments accordingly.
US-led Coalition Assessment:
Civilian casualty statements
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The report contains insufficient information of the time, location and details to assess its credibility.
Original strike reports
For April 18th-19th the Coalition publicly stated: “Near Mosul, eight strikes engaged six ISIS tactical units, destroyed 11 fighting positions, six rocket-propelled grenade systems, five anti-air artillery systems, four medium machine guns, four VBIEDs, a weapons cache, a front-end loader, an ISIS vehicle, a command and control node; and suppressed four fighting positions, four ISIS supply routes and four ISIS tactical units.”