Civilian Casualties

سيارة إسعاف تابعة للهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني في شارع صلاح الدين وسط قطاع غز, a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance on Salah al-Din Street in Deir Al-Balah , Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Wednesday, January 10th 2024, volunteer journalist and photographer for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), 26-year-old Fouad Abu Khammash, was killed alongside three members of PRCS crew and two patients in an ambulance on Salah al-Din Street in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, after a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was hit by

Summary

Healthcare facility

(4 men)

محيط مستشفى شهداء الأقصى بدير البلح, a residential house near the western hospital gate of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Wednesday afternoon, January 10th, 2024, Palestinian journalist Ahmad (Ahmed) Bedir (Bdeir), also called Abu Naeem, was among at least ten civilians killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house. Some reports put the death toll as high as 40. Another 30 civilians were reported injured, in the home near the western hospital gate

Summary

Healthcare facility, Residential building

10 – 41

(2 men)

نبل و الزهراء, Nubl and Al-Zahraa, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On Monday, January 1st, 2024, three civilian members of one family, including a pregnant mother alongside her infant daughter and her father-in-law, were killed and up to 13 civilians were injured due to an artillery strike reportedly perpetrated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a militia faction part of the Al-Fath Al-Mubin grouping affiliated with the Turkish

Summary

(1 child1 woman1 man)

10–13

قرية كاركي, Karki, Sinjar District, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Between 6 and 8 PM on Thursday, December 28th, 2023, at least five people were killed and two others injured after an alleged Turkish drone strike on the village of Karki in the Sinjar district of Mosul province. The civilian status of five of the men killed is contested within the sources. Those killed were

Summary

Water station

3 – 8

(0–5 men)

Suspected target

YPG/SDF

0–5

شرق مستشفى الأمل, East of Al Amal Hospital, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Thursday morning, December 28th 2023, between 10 and 20 civilians, including at least three children, were killed, and at least 12 others, including at least five children, were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike/and or artillery strikes on a residential area near the al-Amal Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. At

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Healthcare facility, Residential building

(3–5 children1 woman2 men)

10 – 20

مركز غسيل الكلى, Dialysis Centre, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

On December 28th, 2023, a 65 year-old kidney patient identified as Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Khadr reportedly died as he could not access treatment, following the reported destruction three days earlier of a dialysis center hit by alleged Turkish air or drone strikes in Qamishlo city. Rojava TV and Ibrahim Sheikho described Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Khadr

Summary

Healthcare facility

(1 man)

Denial of access to/destruction of objects indispensable to survival

كُوبَانِي, Kobani, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On the morning of Monday, December 25, 2023, two civilians working for a construction company were injured following alleged Turkish strikes on the city of Kobani (Ain Al-Arab) in northern Syria. According to ANF news, the strikes not only wounded two civilians, but also caused material damage to the citizens’ property. The Facebook users Kobani

Summary

مطبعة سيماف في القامشلي, Simav (Simaf) printing press on the Western Belt Road, city of Qamishli (Qamishlo), Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

At 10:30 AM on Monday, December 25th, 2023, six employees, among them a young woman, of the Simav (Simaf) printing press located on the Western Belt Road in the city of Qamishli in the Al-Hassakah Governorate, Syria, were killed, and many civilians were injured in an airstrike allegedly perpetrated by the Turkish military. One of

Summary

(1 woman6 men)

صوامع الحبوب, east of Qamishlo, northern Syria, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

On Monday, December 25, 2023, a civilian was reportedly killed by an alleged Turkish airstrike in the grain silos area to the east of the town of Qamishlo in northern Syria. According to Watan News, the victim was “in the vicinity of a mill in the grain silos” when the strike occurred. The identity of

Summary

Agriculture

حي الجزائر, Algeria region, Hilla, Babylon Province, Babil, Iraq

LOCATION

On the 25th of December, 2023, a declared U.S. airstrike was conducted against the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Hilla, central Iraq, reportedly injuring two female civilians: Shadhadan Karim Mirza, and Wasnah Maher Kahem. One member of the PMF was also killed and up to 19 other members of the PMF and

Summary

Known belligerent

US Forces

Known target

Iraqi militias (PMUs)

2 named

Belligerents reported injured

18–19

قرية ام الفرسان, Um Al-Fursan, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

On Monday, December 25th, 2023, a young woman named Aya Al-Sabaawi was killed by a bombing reportedly perpetrated by the Turkish military, while her younger cousin Thuraya Al-Sabaawi was injured in the same attack which hit a mill and a cotton warehouse in the village of Umm Al-Fursan, east of the city of Qamishlo, Syria, according to

Summary

Agriculture

(1 woman)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

ٱلْقَحْطَانِيَّة, “Awda” oil station, in the countryside of the town of Al-Qahtaniyah/Tirbespiyeh, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

Around 10:15 PM on Saturday, December 23rd, 2023, an alleged Turkish airstrike hit the Awda (Odeh) oil station in the countryside of the town of Al-Qahtaniyah (Tirbespiyeh), Syria, injuring a citizen named Hussein Hamza Saadoun and reportedly a number of other oil station employees. Multiple reports came out to indicate that the oil wells were

Summary

Oil facility, Power Station

1–3

محطة الوقود, Qamishlo, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

On Sunday, December 24th, 2023, an alleged airstrike on the city of Qamishlo in Al-Hassakah Governorate in northeastern Syria reportedly perpetrated by the Turkish military killed a renowned 39-year-old Kurdish cinematographer, Mansour Karimian. Some sources provided a different date and place of his death. According to the New York Kurdish Cultural Center, Mansour was killed

Summary

(1 man)

مخيم المغازي, Al-Maghazi camp, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Israeli airstrikes killed as many as 106 civilians in a series of attacks on the Al Maghazi camp on December 24th, 2023. The Israeli military which acknowledged the attack, claiming that it was targeting Hamas operatives. Israeli forces admitted to the “unintended” harm to civilians, due to “mistakenly” having hit adjacent structures. Military officials also

Summary

IDP or refugee camp

(9–25 children7–14 women10–20 men)

67 – 106

50 named, 2 families identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Exact location (via Airwars)

منزل الحاج أبو درويش المغربي قرب مدينة غزة, Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Friday, December 22nd 2023, the entire al-Maghribi family, including up to 81 civilians: at least 17 women, 49 children, and an employee of the United Nations Development Program, were killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of Hajj Abu Darwish al-Maghribi near Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip. Al-Arabiya news, the Associated

Summary

(49 children17–19 women15–16 men)

79 – 81

79 named, 1 familiy identified

City

نبل و الزهراء, residential neighborhoods of Nubl and Al-Zahraa, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On the evening of Sunday, December 17th, 2023, the residential neighborhoods of the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahraa in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Syria, were struck by the artillery bombardment perpetrated by the Turkish affiliated militia Al-Fatah Al-Mubin, as a result of which between two to eight civilians were reportedly injured. According to SOHR,

Summary

2–8

Known belligerent

near to Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia

LOCATION

On the 17th of December, 2023, a declared U.S. airstrike reportedly killed an Al-Shabaab leader, Maalim Ayman, near Jilib in southern Somalia. On the same day as the airstrike, United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) released a statement on its website, stating that the airstrike had been conducted “in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia,

Summary

منزل ابو اسلام ابو لبدة في بني سهيلة شرق خان يونس, House of Abu Islam Abu Lubda in Bani Suhila, east of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Tuesday, December 12th 2023, seven members of the Abu Libdeh family were reported missing. According to messages posted on social media, the family had been besieged in their home since December 4th, when the IDF entered the area of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis. Three bodies – believed to be those of Duwaila

Summary

Denial of access to/destruction of objects indispensable to survival, Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons

3 – 7

(3–5 women0–2 men)

Causes of injury / death

الشيخ رضوان, Sheik Radwan, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 7:43 AM on Monday, December 11th 2023, a series of alleged Israeli airstrikes hit six homes belonging to the extended Salem family in Sheikh Radwan, killing at least 102 civilians. Airwars was able to identify 104 named victims (102 fatalities, and two others injured), though some local reports put the death toll at

Summary

Healthcare facility, Residential building

(50 children26 women26–27 men)

102 – 200

104 named, 1 familiy identified

Names matched with MoH IDs

Exact location (other)

الزهراء, نبل‎, the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahraa, the Western countryside of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On the evening of Saturday, December 9, 2023, four identified civilians, including two women and an infant, were killed and up to 26 civilians, including four women and eleven children, were injured in a bombardment of the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahraa in the western countryside of Aleppo allegedly perpetrated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

(1 child2 women1 man)

19–26

22 named, 3 families identified

شارع ابو حسني, Abu Hosni Street, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, an Israeli aircraft allegedly bombed the Abu Musabbeh family home containing a bakery located on Abu Hosni Street, in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza Strip, reportedly flattening it to the ground. According to publicly available accounts, this resulted in the deaths of at least 30 and up to more than

Summary

Marketplace, Residential building

30 – 51

(1 child1 man)

Street

بامرني, Bamerni, Amedi District, Duhok, Iraq

LOCATION

At around 7AM on Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, a man was killed and up to three others injured after an alleged Turkish bombardment in the Bamerni subdistrict of Amedi, in Dohuk Governorate. Gulan Media named the deceased as 44-year-old Ali Jamil Kalash, the father of four children. Kalash was near his home when he died:

Summary

Agriculture, Water station

0 – 1

(0–1 men)

1–3

0–1

حربل, village of Harbel in the Al-Shahba area, northern countryside of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On Tuesday, December 5, 2023, a Kurdish civilian man was seriously wounded while driving his car by an alleged drone strike by the Turkish military on the village of Harbel in the Al-Shahba area, in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Syria. According to the local sources, the attack was perpetrated with a “suicide drone”. According

Summary

قرية بيني, village of Binah, Sherawa District, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

On Wednesday, December 3rd, 2023, an elderly man was seriously injured due to a drone attack allegedly perpetrated by the Turkish military, in the village of Binahi in the Sherawa district, north of Aleppo, Syria. Issa Kado is a 73-year-old Kurdish civilian with short gray hair, a beard, a dark complexion, and wearing glasses. Dressed

Summary

مدرسة الفاخورة, al Fakhoura School, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the morning of December 3, 2023, a number of civilians were killed and injured, including a woman and a child, in an alleged Israeli strike at the gate of the Al Fakhoura School in the Jabalia Camp, located in North Gaza. Few specific details about the victims were publicly available. At 3:27 am, the

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, School

2 – 4

(0–1 children0–1 women)

2–4

مسجد أنس بن مالك, Anas bin Malik Mosque, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At least four children were injured by an artillery strike on the Anas bin Malik Mosque in the afternoon of December 2nd, 2023. It appears the casualties occurred at the neighboring Deir al-Balah Martyrs School, though this reportedly was not the target of the strike. Abeer Al Banna Press specified that four children had been

Summary

Religious Institution, School

جوار منزل عائلة مشتهى, Vicinity of Mushtaha family home, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the afternoon of December 02, 2023, a home for the Mushtaha family on Nazir Street in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City was bombed in an alleged Israeli airstrike, killing at least 20 civilians, many of them members of the Mushtaha family. According to @SafaPs, 11 people were killed in the bombing of

Summary

(5–9 children4 women4–8 men)

20 named, 1 familiy identified

Nearby landmark

الشجاعي, Al Shujaiya, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the morning of 3rd December 2023, at least two civilians were killed when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the al-Hajjaj family home in the al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. The victims were identified as 27 year old writer and novelist Nour al-Din Hajjaj, and Hamza Haider Hajjaj. In a Facebook post, user Ahmed Ayyad

Summary

2 – 24

(1–2 men)

2 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area