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(Previous Incident Code: S1700)
An alleged Coalition airstrike on an “ISIS headquarters” was reported to have resulted in civilian casualties. Smart News Agency reported that one of four high precision missiles fell on an ISIS HQ and that 12 members of the terror group died. Smart did not report any civilian casualties.
However, according to Deir Ezzor 24, “many civilians were killed” in what it described as “a massacre”. It also described “SDF artillery strikes” on the town – though these most likely related to US-led Coalition actions.
The Al Shaafa Facebook page reported that a total of 20 people died as a result of the attack, but did not specify the number of civilian casualties among the dead.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports on a combined total of 41 civilian casualties as result of airstrikes on Hajin and Al Sha’fa on the 8th and 9th November, of whom most were reportedly of Iraqi nationality but which also included 13 Syrian citizens”. The Observatory also reported that 17 children died as a result of these attacks overall. However most of the fatalities appeared to relate to the Hajin event.
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Sha’afa (الشعفة), for which the generic coordinates are: 34.57888, 40.93441. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.