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(Previous Incident Code: S1754)
According to sources on the ground, alleged Coalition air and artillery fire targeted a house which ISIS was reportedly using, killing several ISIS members in addition to a number of civilians.
According to the official Al Shaafa Facebook page, one of the shells landed on the house of Al-Hamad Al-Ali, killing both him and Ibrahim Al-Hasan. His daughter was reported wounded along with Ibrahim Al Hassan and Ahmed Al Hassan. It wasn’t specified whether the men were civilians or ISIS members, though their shared family names indicated the former.
The incident may have been one of a number in the town that day. Al Shaafa Facebook page added that “more than 20 air strikes of the International Coalition targeted most neighborhoods of Al-Shifa” and “more than 300 artillery shells were fired”. It added that the raids killed overall more than 20 civilians and more than 70 wounded.
In what may be a related or separate incident, Shaam News reported that “One of the raids [on al Shaafa] hit a house in which elements of ISIS were holed up, killing several of them.”
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Reports of the incident mention the village of Al Shaafa (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.