Geolocation
Airwars assessment
In the Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, three civilians were reportedly killed in alleged Coalition artillery strikes in Raqqa. Although Airwars assesses single sourced incidents as “weak”, researchers have assessed this incident “fair” due to the depth of material provided by Amnesty.
According to the Amnesty report, “Ahmad Mohammed al-Tomash, 30, and his daughter Zaman, 10, and his brother-in-law Ali al-Tomash were killed when an artillery struck their home.”
Additional information by Amnesty said that the strike occurred while the family were having dinner. Furthermore, they gave details of other members of three members of the family who were injured as a result of the artillery.
Nahed, the wife and mother of the victims told Amnesty that “We were sitting with relatives. The shell struck my husband and my daughter were killed and my two sons were badly injured they both lost an eye each. My little one was only 17 days old and he sustained horrific injuries all over.”
Although Amnesty found no precise building location, they reported that the incident occurred near Saf’a Mosque.
The incident occured at 19:30:00 local time.
The victims were named as:
Family members (6)
Summary
Sources (1) [ collapse]
Media
from sources (6) [ collapse]
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Ahmad Mohamad Al Tomash & Zaman Al Tomash, killed in artillery strikes by alleged Coalition raids, 6th-24th July 2017. (via Amnesty)
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Ahmad Mohammad Al Tomash, killed in artillery strikes by alleged Coalition raids, 6th-24th July 2017. (via Amnesty)
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Zaman Al Tomash, killed in artillery strikes by alleged Coalition raids, 6th-24th July 2017. (via Amnesty)
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Ammar and Mohammad Al Tomash, survivors of the alleged Coalition artillery strike, two years on. (via Amnesty)
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Ammar Al Tomash, who lost his eye and sustained bad injures to his leg in an alleged Coalition artillery strike in July 2017. This image shows his recovery two years on. (via Amnesty)
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Ammar Al Tomash, who lost his eye and sustained bad injures to his leg in an alleged Coalition artillery strike in July 2017. This image shows his recovery two years on. (via Amnesty)
US-led Coalition Assessment:
Original strike reports
Not yet assessed.