(Previous Incident Code: S986)

A girl was reportedly killed by shells fired into Busraya, with the Coalition or the US-backed SDF are believed to be responsible.

Although reportage suggested the strike occurred on the 1t of July, Amnesty field notes suggested that it happened between the beginning of June and the end of July.

According to the Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, before the airstrike on August 1st, the Hamzawi family also lost Fatima, another child of Hammada and Sabah, in an artillery strike on their home. Her parents Hammada and Sabah, were killed in a Coalition air strike a month later.”

A relative, Amer Hamzawi, told Amnesty in a testimony that “My uncle and aunt were still mourning the loss of their daughter and then they suffered the same unjust fate.”

A majority of sources said that artillery shells caused the death whereas some believed it was caused by mortar shells. @24Raqqa reported that it was a combination of the two.

Airwars understands that the SDF does not have access to artillery.

Despite this, it has since been confirmed by Amnesty ground research that the strikes were artillery.