On April 8th, a 20 month old baby boy and his grandmother were injured during crossfire between Gaddafi forces and rebel forces in Misurata. Amnesty reported on the injuries.
Amnesty reports “‘Abderrabbo Fezzani, a 20-month-old baby boy, and his grandmother were injured when they were caught in the crossfire between al-Gaddafi forces and opposition fighters in the second week of April.”
The local time of the incident is unknown.
At least one man was killed in an alleged US-led Coalition drone strike in al-Shanan village in eastern Deir Ezzor on May 4, 2021. While the majority of sources that reported on the incident claimed that the man killed was no longer part of any armed groups, a spokesman for the Coalition identified him as an ISIS operative.
According to Deir Ezzor 24 Network’s correspondent, “a person was killed when a drone believed to belong to the international coalition targeted his car in al-Shanan” and “the targeted car belonged to a former Free Army fighter who worked before his death as a gas official of the Syrian Democratic Forces.”
Euphrates Post identified the man killed as Bassem Atwan Al-Bilal and pointed out that his car was struck “near the Al-Balhawi Mosque in the village of Shannan.” They added that following the strike, “the Qasd imposed a cordon on the town”.
A spokesperson for the Coalition tweeted “.@CJTFOIR conducted an air strike removing a Daesh terrorist from the battlefield near Dayr az Zawr, Syria today. @Coalition and our partners will continue our mission to #defeatdaesh, disrupt their resources and eliminate Daesh remnants.”
However, in a civilian casualty assessment released July 9th 2021, the Coalition classed this event as ‘non credible’, claiming that “After a review of all available records it was assessed that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area that corresponds to the report of civilian casualties.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights identified the man killed as being a civilian and Jesr Press reported that “at the present time he does not belong to any military organization, and he is married and has 8 children and two wives.” More details were given by Watan FM that the man killed “has defected from the Assad forces since 2012, and has not yet joined any military faction, and he is currently working as a gas delegate to the Autonomous Administration, and he has 4 brothers who volunteer with the Syrian Democratic Forces, one of whom is a leader called (Rayan Al-Shanan)”.
Eye of Euphrates reported that Al-Atwan was killed “while he was going to work in the harragas in Al-Hawi area near the oil burners” and spoke with a relative of the young man, who reiterated that “Al-Atwan has nothing to do with military matters, and that he works in the field of refining oil through primitive burners.”
Baladi News pointed out that “it is likely that the car he was traveling in was previously monitored, knowing that Al-Atwan bought it recently” which could explain why he was hit.
However, the North Press Agency Syria reported that the man was “said to be affiliated with the Islamic State” and added that he was killed after leaving a mosque.
The airstrike was carried out by an MQ-9 Reaper drone, according to @N0tWoofers. All of the sources that reported on the strike attributed it to Coalition drones or did not identify who was responsible, in addition to the Coalition spokesman verifying that its forces had carried out a strike in the area.
The incident occured in the evening.
The victims were named as:
Reports of the incident mention a vehicle being struck in the village of Al Shanan (الشنان). Analyzing visual material from sources, we have narrowed down the location to these exact coordinates: 34.976104, 40.576696.
May 4, 2021, near Deir Ezzor, Syria, via Airwars report. After a review of all available records it was assessed that no Coalition actions were conducted in the geographical area that corresponds to the report of civilian casualties. 3296/CS1958 37SFV002107
.@CJTFOIR conducted an air strike removing a Daesh terrorist from the battlefield near Dayr az Zawr, Syria today.
@Coalition and our partners will continue our mission to #defeatdaesh, disrupt their resources and eliminate Daesh remnants.
- From @OIRSpox
At least one civilian, a child, was killed and three others were wounded in alleged Turkish strikes on Kalota village on June 5, 2021.
A tweet from @RojavaIC reported that “a 13yo child, Zeynab Hussain Ibrahim Bento, died in Kalota village, Shehba, when her family house was hit by shells from Turkish-occupied Afrin.”
In addition to the girl that was killed, Bas News reported that “her brother and father were wounded” alongside her from the Turkish shelling. ASO network provided their names, “her brother “Bakr Hussein” and her father, “Hussein Ibrahim“. Alyaum TV also identified that “her mother was seriously injured” in the same strike.
All of the sources that reported on the incident attributed the strikes to Turkey.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Family members (4)
Reports of the incident mention the village of Kalota (كالوتا), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.353676, 36.941201. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Between one and three civilians, including a woman and up to two children, were killed and two to five other civilians, including up to four children and a woman, were injured in alleged Russian or regime shelling of the village of Iblin on July 15, 2021.
Shaam News reported that shelling “of a residential house in the village of Iblin in Jabal al-Zawiya led to the fall of a child martyr and the injury of two of his brothers”.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights increased the number of casualties to “three civilians, including a woman and a child” while Syrian Network for Human Rights also identified three civilians as being killed, broken down to two children and a woman. @IdlibPlus added that the three civilians killed were “a woman and her two children”.
A tweet from @zelal_abo_adnan identified the child Hassan Ahmed Juma Al-Khalaf, 12 years, as being killed in the strikes.
@OrientNews added two more names of civilians killed: Khadija Ahmed Khalaf (F) and Dana Alaa Krum (F)
Syrian Civil Defense identified “the injury of 4 other children” and added that “most of the dead and wounded are from one family.” Zaman Al Wasl reported that a “woman and 4 children were injured”.
Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame for the strikes. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights attributed the strikes to the Syrian regime. However, Syrian Network for Human Rights blamed Russian shells “equipped with a Krasnopol laser guidance system”. While Shaam News did not attribute the strike to a responsible party, they identified “the flight of a Russian reconnaissance plane in the air”.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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Between two and three civilians, including a woman and up to two children, were injured in alleged Russian or regime artillery strikes on the town of Bidama on July 24, 2021.
According to Syrian Civil Defense, “a woman and her child were injured by artillery shelling by the regime and Russia forces targeting residential neighborhoods in the town of Badama”. The majority of other sources also identified a woman and a child as being injured.
A tweet from @abo_aljod84 identified “the injury of two children and a woman” from the strikes while @jisrtv referred to “children and women” but did not identify how many.
Syria TV reported that a woman and her child “sustained moderate injuries” from the shelling.
Sources were conflicted as to who was responsible for the strikes. While @EdlibNN attributed the strikes to Russia, @baladinetwork blamed the regime.
The incident occured in the morning.
Reports of the incident mention the town of Bidama (بداما), for which the generic coordinates are: 35.811903, 36.202275. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Al least one civilian, a child, was killed in alleged Israeli drone strikes on Shejaiya neighborhood on May 11th 2021.
Hamza Mahmoud Yassin Ali, between 10 and 12 years old, was killed in the strikes on Shejaiya. @MahmOudEssaaM__ tweeted that he was killed when “he went out of the house to buy home supplies for his blind mother” and @wassilaoulmi added that he was “on his way to bring vegetables to his family for breakfast”.
Al Qabas published details that “Hamza was fasting and had left his home in Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, 3 hours before the time of breaking the fast on the penultimate day of Ramadan, to buy some vegetables for his family from the neighborhood market, which is about one kilometer from the house, when a Zionist warplane launched an air raid, near “Abu al-Kas cemetery.”
Defense for Children International Palestine reported that Hamza “was struck by shrapnel from an Israeli drone-fired missile” and “was participating in a funeral procession near his home when he sustained wounds to his abdomen and lacerations on his limbs”.
The following morning after the strike, on May 12th at 10:40am, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that “medical sources announced the death of the child Hamza Mahmoud Yassin Ali, 12 years old, as a result of his severe injury yesterday as a result of the bombing of the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza, where he lives and was wounded by fragments scattered in the body and underwent surgery and remained in intensive care until it was announced his death.”
Al Qabas added that “Hamza, aged 12, remained an unidentified martyr for several hours in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, before his father recognized him, who went to the hospital in search of him after a long wait and did not return home. Hamza, the fifth among his brothers, belongs to a poor family, and was forced to work to help his father, Abu Yasser Nassar, and his mother, who is blind.” According to @M_Durmaz_Ar, Hamza “was in the sixth grade and one of the first in his school” and @turkwahtarab tweeted that “Hamza was a man the age of a child, and because of his family’s circumstances and his father’s economic hardship, he used to rely on himself in many things, and even his family relies on him to perform daily tasks even though he is not the largest among males.”
Abu Yasser Nassar (uncle of the martyr’s father) told Al Jazeera Net, “Hamza lived a miserable life, but God wrote for him this beautiful ending with death as a fasting and smiling martyr until his image became a symbol for the children of Palestine who lose safety and risk death every moment. He was distinguished among his four brothers and his three brothers from his father. His love falls in the heart of everyone who sees and deals with him. He was smart in his dealings with people, and excelled in his studies.”
@ShehabAgency identified the location of the strikes as occurring in the Al-Bariah Junction in Shejaiya and other sources pinpointed the strike to Abu al-Kas cemetery. All of the sources that identified who was to blame attributed the strikes to Israel.
The incident occured in the morning.
The victims were named as:
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Reports of the incident mention the vicinity of Abu Al Kas cemetary (مقبرة أبو الكاس), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.498205, 34.473901. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
At least one civilian was injured in alleged Russian or regime artillery and machine gun fire on the village of Kafr Nouran on August 11, 2021.
@spc_fr reported that “a civilian was injured as the #regime forces bombed the village of #Kafr Noran in the western countryside of #Aleppo with heavy machine guns”. Other sources reported that “civilians” were injured but did not specify how many.
Both shelling and machine guns were identified by various sources as being used in the attack.
@syria55s attributed the strikes to Russia and @Tb7FgaFJwxqQlKu pointed out that Russian reconnaissance planes were flying in the area. However, the other sources that reported on this incident blamed the regime for the strikes.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Reports of the incident mention the village of Kafr Nouran (كفر نوران), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.079694, 36.8061947. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Between one and two civilians, including a girl and a woman, were killed and up to seven members of their family, including two women and a child, were injured in alleged Syrian Democratic Forces or regime strikes on Al Karidiya on August 18/19, 2021.
The Syrian Civil Defense reported about “the killing of a woman, and the injury of 5 civilians, including two women and a child, by a missile attack in the middle of the night, originating from the areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the regime forces”.
A tweet from @MasarPressNet, in addition to the majority of other sources, identified that the civilian that was killed was a girl rather than a woman and that the civilians that were injured were all from one family and sustained their injuries in their home, which was struck in the shelling. However, a post from Mohammad Ward reported that both a woman and a girl were killed, “the death of a woman succumbed to her injuries and a girl of no more than ten years of age”.
Saleh Al Asmar posted the name of the girl killed: Aya Adnan Al-Hamidi. Syrian Network for Human Rights identified Aya as being 13 years old.
@baznewz put the number of civilians injured in the bombing at seven and @YusufAd76532779 identified most of those injured as being children. An image posted by Saleh Al Asmar shows a man who sustained injuries in the shelling.
Sources were conflicted as to whether the SDF or the regime were responsible for the strikes, with some sources identified the area that the strikes originated from as being controlled by both the SDF and the regime.
The incident occured around midnight.
The victims were named as:
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Al Karidiya (الكريدية), for which the generic coordinates are: 36.427060, 37.671859. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.