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Incident Date

25 December 2023

Incident Code

CI882

Location

كلية الإدارة والاقتصاد القريبة من الحلة, Vicinity of Faculty of Administration and Economics, Hilla, Babil Governorate, Iraq
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, killing two civilian men and injuring two female civilians, Shadhadan Karim Mirza, and Wasnah Maher Kahem, and another man. One member of the PMF was also killed and up to…

Summary

Published
25 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
3
Military actors reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S.-led Coalition
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Incident Date

24 December 2023

Incident Code

RS4876

Location

عين لاروز, elementary school and residential buildings in the village of Ain Laroz, Idlib, Syria
Shortly before 3 PM on Sunday, December 24, 2023, during school hours, Russian forces and/or the Syrian regime and/or Iranian forces allegedly struck an elementary school in the village of Ain Larouz in southern Idlib with artillery and missiles. One child was “lightly” injured. At 2:52 PM, Twitter/X user @anasanas84 shared a video showing the…

Summary

Published
24 December 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential, Education
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military, Iranian Military
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Incident Date

24 December 2023

Incident Code

TS668

Location

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

Published
24 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

24 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1923

Location

مخيم المغازي, Al-Maghazi camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
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

Published
1 July 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
67–106
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

24 December 2023

Incident Code

TS673

Location

القامشلي, Al-Qāmishlī, Al-Hassakah, Syria
On Sunday, December 24th, 2023, an alleged airstrike on the city of Al-Qāmishlī 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

Published
24 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

22 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1880

Location

مخيم النصيرات, Nuseirat camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
At least 19 people, including a journalist and eight children, were killed and dozens were injured, including two infants, by alleged Israeli military bombardment on the evening of December 22nd 2023 on the home of the Khalifa family on El-Eshreen Street in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Muthana Najjar reported in a…

Summary

Published
4 September 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
19
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

22 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1881a

Location

منزل الحاج أبو درويش المغربي قرب مدينة غزة, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian territories
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

Published
1 June 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
79–81
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

19 December 2023

Incident Code

RS4875

Location

القنيطرة, Al-Quneitra, Idlib, Syria
During the morning of Tuesday, December 19th, 2023, a 15-year-old child was injured as a result of airstrikes allegedly launched by the Russian military on the outskirts of the village of Quneitra, in western Idlib. Damage to civilian property and panic among nearby IDP camps was also reported as a result of the strike. Multiple…

Summary

Published
19 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

18 December 2023

Incident Code

JS002

Location

بلدة المتاعية, Bir Al-Dawla, south of the Al Mata’iya town, Daraa, Syria
During the evening of Monday, December 12, 2023, around 9:18 p.m., a civilian was slightly injured by an airstrike reportedly perpetrated by Jordanian warplanes in Bir Al-Dawla, located in the south of the town Al Mata’iya in the eastern countryside of the Daraa Governorate. According to the sources, the site was Al Mata’iya dam located…

Summary

Published
18 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Water
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Jordanian Military
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Incident Date

18 December 2023

Incident Code

JS003

Location

ذيبين, Theybin (Dhibin), Al Suwayda, Syria
On the evening of Monday, December 18th, 2023, at least four people from one family, including a woman and two children, were reportedly killed by an airstrike allegedly perpetrated by the Jordanian military on a farm near the town of Theybin (Dhibin) located south of the Al Suwiyda city area, close to Syrian-Jordanian border. Several…

Summary

Published
18 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Agriculture
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
1–2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Jordanian Military
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Incident Date

18 December 2023

Incident Code

JS004

Location

مزرعة فيصل السعدي قرب صلخ, A house of Hisham Jabour near Faisal Al Sadi’s farm in the city of  Salkhad, Al Suwayda, Al Suwayda, Syria
At 10.45 pm on Monday, December 18, 2023, Hisham Fadlallah Jabour, a civilian man in his fifties, was reportedly killed in an alleged Jordanian airstrike on his house near Nasser Faisal Al-Saadi’s farm located behind and south of the supply depot in the city of Salkhad in the region of Suwayda, Syria. The sources reported…

Summary

Published
18 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
1
Military actors reported killed
0–1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Jordanian Military
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Incident Date

17 December 2023

Incident Code

RS4873

Location

مدينة ادلب, Wadi Al-Naseem neighborhood close to a market on Al-Bazaar street, Idlib city, Aleppo, Syria
During the morning of Sunday, December 17, 2023, 15 civilians, including five children and one woman, were reportedly injured by the artillery shelling with contested responsibility allegedly perpetrated by Syrian regime forces and/or Russian military and/or Iranian military in the city of Idlib, in the region of Aleppo, Syria. The incident reportedly occurred in the…

Summary

Published
17 December 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Education, Residential, Commerce (Market)
Civilians reported injured
15
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

17 December 2023

Incident Code

RS4874

Location

دارة عزة, residential neighborhoods of Darat Azza, Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
During the evening of Sunday, December 17, 2023, at least five identified civilians, including a child and a woman pregnant with twins, were killed and five civilians, including two children, were injured in an alleged attack by the Syrian regime and/or the Iranian military and/or the Russian military on the residential neighborhoods of Darat Azza,…

Summary

Published
17 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
5–8
Civilians reported injured
5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

17 December 2023

Incident Code

TS667

Location

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

Published
17 December 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported injured
2–8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

17 December 2023

Incident Code

USSOM410

Location

near to Jilib, Middle Juba, Somalia
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

Published
17 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Military actors reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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Incident Date

12 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1697b

Location

ِبني سهيلا, Bani Suhaila, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
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

Published
1 July 2024
Strike Type
Ground operation
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
3–7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions, Small arms and light weapons, Denial of access to/destruction of objects indispensable to survival
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

11 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1669

Location

الشيخ رضوان, Sheik Radwan, Gaza, Palestinian territories
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

Published
1 March 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
102–200
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

10 December 2023

Incident Code

RS4872

Location

دارة عزة, Darat Azza, west of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
Two siblings, a boy and a girl, were injured by an artillery attack reportedly perpetrated by the Syrian regime forces and/or Russian military before midnight on Saturday, December 10, 2023, on the residential neighborhoods of city of Darat Azza, west of Aleppo, Syria. Iman Abu Talib and Muhammad Abu Talib, a girl and boy, were…

Summary

Published
10 December 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

9 December 2023

Incident Code

TS666

Location

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

Published
9 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
19–26
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

9 December 2023

Incident Code

RS4870

Location

سرمين, Sarmin, east of Idlib, Idlib, Syria
On Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at least one civilian was killed and seven other civilians, including three children, were injured by an alleged artillery strike by Syrian regime forces and/or the Russian and/or Iranian military in residential areas in the city of Sarmin, east of Idlib, Syria. According to an initial toll by the Syrian…

Summary

Published
9 December 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military, Iranian Military
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Incident Date

9 December 2023

Incident Code

RS4871

Location

الأحياء السكنية، السوق الرئيسي والمنطقة الصناعية، مدينة إدلب, residential neighbourhoods, main market and industrial area, city of Idlib, Idlib, Syria
On Saturday, December 9, 2023, artillery and missile bombardment allegedly carried out by the Syrian regime forces and/or Russian and/or Iranian military hit residential neighbourhoods, the main market, and industrial area of the city of Idlib, killing at least six civilians, including at least two children and a woman, and up to 22 people, and…

Summary

Published
9 December 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Commerce (Market), Residential
Civilians reported killed
6–22
Civilians reported injured
20–36
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military, Iranian Military
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Incident Date

7 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1576c

Location

قصر الباشا، حي الدرج، مدينة غزة, Al-Basha Palace, Al-Daraj neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On December 7, 2023, at least four civilians, all of whom were members of the Al-Razeq family, were reportedly killed when Qasr al-Basha (Al-Basha Palace) was bombed. Wegdan Khaled Abd al-Razeq (al-Ramlawi) was reportedly killed alongside her three children: Amal Sayyed Abed al-Razeq (12 years old), Amira Sayyed Abed al-Razeq (11 years old), and Adham…

Summary

Published
13 July 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Cultural Site
Civilians reported killed
4
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

5 December 2023

Incident Code

TI100

Location

بامرني, Bamerni, Amedi District, Duhok, Iraq
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

Published
5 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Water
Civilians reported killed
0–1
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Military actors reported killed
0–1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

5 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1483

Location

شارع ابو حسني, Abu Hosni Street, Gaza, Palestinian territories
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

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
30–51
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

5 December 2023

Incident Code

TS665

Location

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

Published
5 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike (Drone Strike)
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

4 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1480

Location

الترنس، معسكر جباليا, Trans area, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
On 4th December 2023, four people were killed and two others were injured by an alleged Israeli strike on the market area/Trans area in Block 6 of Jabalia Refugee Camp in Northern Gaza. 66-year-old Saeed Yousef Ramadan al-Kahlout (Abu Yousef) and his grandchildren 26-year-old Ismail Mohammed Ismail al-Kahlout and 13-year-old Malak Ahmed Mohammed al-Kahlout, as…

Summary

Published
4 July 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Commerce (Market), IDP or Refugee Camp
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

4 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1480c

Location

مدرسة خليفة بن زايد في بيت لاهيا, Khalifa Bin Zaid School, Beit Lahia, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
On Monday, 4 December 2023, at least one child was reportedly killed and others were wounded, including children, in an alleged Israeli airstrike that struck the Khalifa Bin Zaid School in Beit Lahia in the north governorate of the Gaza Strip. The Khalifa Bin Zaid school housed displaced people at the time of the strike.…

Summary

Published
24 December 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
3–12
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

4 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1478

Location

منزل أبو عبيد في بلوك, Abu Obaid house in Block 5, Jabalia camp, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
Before 5:13 on December 4th 2023, an Israeli aircraft allegedly bombed the homes of Palestinian civilians in Northern Gaza’s Jabalia Refugee Camp, reportedly hitting Abu Obaid’s house in Block 5. While the sources reporting the incident did not mention any deaths, they pointed out that a “number of citizens were still under the rubble”, adding…

Summary

Published
6 September 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

4 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1467

Location

منطقة أبو زيتون، مخيم جباليا, Abu Zeitoun area, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
An unknown number of civilians were reported injured in shelling that took place in shelter centers in the Abu Zeitoun area of Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza on December 4, 2023. News agencies including Shehab Agency and Al-Arabiya Palestine reported “violent and successive bombardments” and “heavy shelling” in the area in which civilians were sheltering.…

Summary

Published
2 July 2025
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
IDP or Refugee Camp
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

4 December 2023

Incident Code

ISPT1454

Location

بالقرب من مسجد حليمة في خان يونس, Vicinity of Halima Mosque, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
Six people were reported killed and at least eight others injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Shurrab family home in Khan Younis on 4 December, 2023. The bombardment of the home, located near the Halima Mosque, resulted in deaths across three generations of family members. The patriarch of the family, 57-year-old Muhammad Rashid…

Summary

Published
10 January 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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