Airwars assessment
At approximately 3am on Wednesday, February 7th, 2024, at least six identified civilians, including a woman, a child, and three college students, were killed and over 20 civilians were injured after multiple alleged Israeli airstrikes struck a residential building and the municipal stadium on Hamra street in the Al-Hamra neighbourhood in the city of Homs, Syria. The nine strikes that reportedly hit the sites of armed militias linked to Iran also resulted in material damage to the area including the Directorate of Technical Services.
At 6:28 AM Twitter/X user Ahmet Aydın (@AhmadSarhel) reported that eight people, including a woman, were killed and over 20 were injured as a result of the Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Hamra neighbourhood of Homs, adding a video where flashes from explosions can be seen. Airwars has identified the names of six civilians and three militants who were killed in the attack.
Walid Al-Jaber and other social media users helped Airwars to identify the names of the six civilian victims. Young men named Anas Ibo, Iyad Abdulnaser Awareq, Abduljabbar Al-Said, Abdulrahman Al-Siba’i, a woman named Nabila Raslan, and a child named Mohammed Hasan Mousili were killed in the airstrike.
Abdulrahman Al-Siba’i, Anas Ibo, and Iyad Abdulnaser Awareq were students of the National Private University, and a Facebook post by user Nada Bahbouh offered sincere condolences to the victims’ families on behalf of the National Union of Syrian Students. Waddah Sibai also posted a tribute on Facebook to “the young martyr Abdul Rahman Al-Sibai, the young martyr Anas Ibo, and the young martyr Abdul Jabbar Al-Sayyed.”
Facebook account “Latakia events, moment by moment” also mourned the deaths of Abd al-Rahman al-Sibai, Anas Ibo, and Abd al-Jabbar al-Sayyed, sharing the images of three young bearded men, all in their 20s or early 30s.
An article by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on the serious damage that the Directorate of Technical Services south to the city of Homs is believed to have sustained. Reportedly, the damage included “the destruction of the garage’s gas stove, the oil warehouse, and 12 pieces of engineering equipment (3 rollers, 3 tractors, and 2 graders).” Also damaged was “an asphalt scraper, bucket, tanker and a dumper equipped with navigation for removing snow, in addition to about 50 machines being partially damaged.”
Twitter/X user @SAMSyria0 shared images of the destroyed tractors and graders. According to Athar Press correspondent and the Commander of the Homs Fire Brigade, Major Iyad Muhammad, a huge fire broke out in the garage of the Technical Services Directorate and firefighting teams worked to extinguish it.
According to the sources, the affected residential building on Hamra Street collapsed, and some homes and shops were damaged. Twitter/X user @Homs Educational posted pictures showing the building that had been reduced to rubble and rescue efforts in the darkness when Civil Defense and Ambulance were working to extract the injured from under the rubble.
Facebook post by Aleppo Geographic provided urther photographic evidence of damage to infrastructure. The post also reported further damage to areas away from the Al-Hamra neighbourhood. The areas included the Qusayr countryside southwest of Homs, the Auras area, the Al-Waer farms and east of the Palmyra roundabout which resulted in fires but there were no civilian casualties recorded.
Further posts by Facebook users @DaleelKoura.com and @this world also mentioned the presence of fires in the vicinity of the Palmyra roundabout and Shinshar Bridge as a result of the falling of missiles on those places. A tweet by @Rian_almasri included a video of the aftermath of the strikes, and the post also included a video of what is believed to be an initial strike taking place.
SANA news agency shared images of the aftermath of the strikes and rescue efforts showing piles of rubble, destroyed building’s walls, damaged cars, and civil defense workers in orange uniforms. Twitter/X user @syriacuse posted additional images showing the damaged and destroyed buildings.
The Lebanese Hezbollah district commander Ahmed Samir Qanbar and two of his companions, Hussein Muhammad Shams and Muhammad Jaafar Asili, were killed in the strike. Homs TV shared the images of Hussein Shams and Muhammad Asili in military uniform while Twitter/X user @Wolveri07681751 posted an image of Ahmed Qanbar in a camouflage uniform.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli military. According to SANA news agency that quoted a military source, the alleged Israeli airstrikes were launched from the north of Tripoli, and some of the missiles were intercepted by the Syrian air defense.
The incident occured at approximately 3:00 am local time.
The victims were named as:
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Source: SANA news
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Source: SANA news
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Source: SANA news
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Source: SANA news
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Source: SANA news
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Source: SANA news
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Source: SANA news
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Source: SANA news
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Source: @syriacuse
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Source: @syriacuse
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Source: @Wolveri07681751
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Source: @rabih2381
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Source: @rabih2381
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Source: @rabih2381
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Source: @rabih2381
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Source: @Rian_almasri
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Source: @Rian_almasri
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Source: @SAMSyria0
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Source: @SAMSyria0
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Source: @SAMSyria0
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Source: @SAMSyria0
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Source: Latakia events, moment by moment
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Source: Latakia events, moment by moment
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Source: Latakia events, moment by moment
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Source: Athar Press
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Source: Waddah Sibai
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Source: Waddah Sibai
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Source: DaleelKoura.com
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Source: DaleelKoura.com
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Source: this world
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Source: this world
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Source: Homs TV
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Source: Nada Bahbouh
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Source: Nada Bahbouh
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Source: Nada Bahbouh
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Source: Nada Bahbouh
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Source: Aleppo Geographic
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Source: Aleppo Geographic
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Source: Aleppo Geographic
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Source: Aleppo Geographic
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Source: Homs Educational
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Source: Homs Educational
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Source: Homs Educational
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Source: Homs Educational
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Source: Homs Educational
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Source: Homs Educational
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