Civilian Casualties

رفح, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On 7th October, 2023, a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedic Nazmi Abu Hadayed and PRCS volunteer Odeh Al-Kurdi from the Rafah Governorate EMS Center were injured by shrapnel as a result of an attack on an ambulance in Rafah. An ambulance driver, Mahmoud Hussein Othman, is reported missing by some sources, while others express

Summary

Healthcare facility

(1 man)

Impact

صكيرو, Skiro, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Children were injured, number unknown, by alleged Syrian Democratic Forces missile strikes on Skiro school on February 25, 2023. Various local sources, including @alkhabour21, tweeted that “most of the wounded were children” without providing specific information on how many children were injured. Local sources added that the attack took place at the Skiro school north

Summary

School

2–4

YPG

الموصل: الزنجيلي, Mosul, Al-Zinjili, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local residents and press sources said that 43 civilians were killed in airstrikes and missile shelling by the International Coalition and Iraqi forces in Zanjili neighbourhood, in the west of Mosul. Mosul Eye reported: “Mosul witnessed 20/3/2017 wave of casualties in a large number, and the initial outcome that we were able to collect was

Summary

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

Suspected belligerents

1 named

عمارة أبو زهري بمدينة رفح, Abu Zuhri Building, Al Shaboura, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 8th, 2023 at around 9:50pm, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Abu Zuhri apartment building in the Al-Shaboura refugee camp, Rafah City, in the Gaza strip, and killed between four and five civilians, among them Jasser Marjouna, Jasser Marjouna’s wife, Abdulnaser Shabanah, and an infant and woman whose names are not published within the

Summary

IDP or refugee camp, Residential building

4 – 5

(1 child2 women1–2 men)

20–55

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

Барвінкове, Barvinkove, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

At approximately 4:00pm on April 12 2022, in Baryinkove, Izyum district, confirmed shelling by Russian Federation armed forces reportedly killed 3 civilians including a 16-year-old girl and injured a 20-year-old man. Residential buildings were also reportedly damaged and destroyed. A statement from the press service of the Kharkiv Prosecutor’s Office established these details which were

Summary

(1 child)

منطقة الادخار, Al-ldikhar, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Up to five civilians died including a child and two women in a reported airstrike on Al-ldikhar, according to local media. Reports were conflicted as to whether this was the work of the Coalition or Russia. Smart news agency said that three civilians died in a strike “likely” carried out by the Coalition However RFS

Summary

3 – 5

(1 child2 women)

US-led Coalition, Russian Military

Suspected belligerents

بيت لاهيا, Beit Lahia, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On the evening of October 9th, 2023, up to 15 members of the al-Madhoun family, including two women and eleven children, were killed as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the al-Madhoun family home located behind the Golden Hall in the Americana area west to the town of Beit Lahyia in the northern

Summary

(11 children1–2 women2 men)

Impact

15 named, 1 familiy identified

Town

Лозова, Lozova, Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

In Lozova village in the Bohodukhiv district of Kharkiv one civilian, a 41 year old woman, was reportedly killed by Russian forces’ shells on May 8th 2022. Kharkiv’s Regional Prosecuctor Office reported that “investigators from the Bohodukhiv District Police Department of the Kharkiv Region National Police inspected the scene.” Sources recorded another area shelled simultaneously

Summary

(1 woman)

وادي شعبة, Wadi Sha'aba, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Four civilians died and eight others were injured in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Wadi Sha’aba, according to local sources. Alalam, Addiyar and Almanar also produced the same report, saying that Coalition artillery killed four civilians including a woman and injured eight others. Smart News Agency also blamed Coalition artillery, reporting that “the artillery of

Summary

(1 woman)

شارع النخيل, Al Nakhil Street, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 12th 2023, at least 11 civilians were reportedly killed, with 15 others injured, in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al-Zari’i family home on Al-Nakhil Street in Deir Al-Balah, located in the central Gaza Strip. All 11 of the victims have been identified, including seven members across multiple generations of the Al-Zari’i family.

Summary

11 – 12

(3–4 children8 men)

13 named, 2 families identified

Exact location (via Airwars)

Леб’яже, Lebyazhe, Kharkiv, Ukraine

LOCATION

On 13 May 2022, 4 civilians were reportedly wounded, including which a 15 year-old boy, by Russian shelling in Lebyazhe village, Kharkiv. Sources, quoting the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, reported that Russian forces shelled twice the area. The first attack was conducted in the morning at around 11 am, and “as

Summary

محلة الحمام, Mosul, Mahalet al Hammam / Bab Laksh, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources reported that three civilians, including one woman, were killed and two children injured in Al-Hammam neighbourhood close to the al Nouri Mosque in the center of Mosul. Sources are conflicted as to whether this was due to mortar or rocket shelling, Coalition airstrikes or unidentified “military aircraft”.

Summary

(1 woman)

US-led Coalition, Unknown

Suspected belligerents

المواسي, Al Mawasi, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 10th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the homes of the Al-Majaydeh and Ahmed families situated in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip reportedly killed five civilians belonging to one family, including one woman and two children, and wounded from six to 14 other civilians. One of

Summary

(2 children1 woman2 men)

6–14

4 named, 1 familiy identified

Neighbourhood/area

ذيبان, Dhiban, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

On Friday March 24th, at 8:05 am, an Iranian militia allegedly launched rockets at Coalition forces at “Green Village,” an American base near al-Omar oil field east of Deir Ezzor. According to CENTCOM, the rockets missed the Coalition facility by approximately 5 km. Instead, they reportedly hit a house in Dhiban and injured two women

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

منزل عائلة الجزار برفح جنوب قطاع غزة, Al-Jazzar family’s home in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 17th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the al-Jazzar family house in the al-Tanour area, in east Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing up to 12 people, including 11 members of the al-Jazzar family, and injuring 12 others, including three children. 63 year old Zaki Mahmoud al-Jazzar was killed along with his

Summary

8 – 12

(3 children1 woman8 men)

12 named, 1 familiy identified

A road linking the villages of Herbel with Um Hawsh, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

One Russian soldier was killed and between three and four other Russian soldiers were injured in an attack on an armoured military personnel carrier allegedly carried out by Turkish forces. The vehicle was moving along a road that connects Herbel and Um Hawsh. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the injured Russians were

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

Belligerents reported killed

Turkish Military

Suspected target

Russian Military

Belligerents reported injured

3–4

الخاتونية, Khatouniya, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported the death of three civilians following an alleged Coalition drone or air strike on a fire engine which was passing along the road between Al Jazara and Khatouniya. The local news agency reported: “A local source told the Smart correspondent on Thursday that three civilian workers were killed in an air strike

Summary

بطن السمين, Batn al Sameen, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 20th 2023, the Al-Bashiti family’s house in the Batn al-Sameen area in Khan Yunis was hit by alleged Israeli aircraft bombing, resulting in an unknown number of deaths and injuries. The names of the family members who were affected were not mentioned by the sources. Journalist Ahmad Qudeih reported that the bombing of

Summary

المستشفى الجمهوري, Mosul, Republican hospital, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

Local sources reported that ‘US airstrikes’ hit the entrance of the emergency department of the Republican Hospital at the Medical Complex of West Mosul killing seven people. Some sources referred to a statement made by the ISIL press agency. No additional details are presently known.

Summary

خانيونس, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 20th 2023, between 18 and 22 civilians – including women and children – all members of the ‘Abu Al-Naja’ family were killed, and between 79 and 114 others were injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike on their residential home in the Abu-Shahla neighbourhood in east Khan Yunis, Gaza. It has been reported that

Summary

18 – 22

(9 children5 women4 men)

79–114

18 named, 1 familiy identified

Province/governorate

حي الثكنة, al Thakanna, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

According to the Smart News Agency, “a local source said that aircraft of the International Coalition, launched a raid on an ISIL car in al Thakana neighborhood in the city of Raqqa, which led to the death of one of the latter [ISIL member], and a child and wounding five civilians who were next to

Summary

(1 child)

مسجد احياء السنة في حي الصبرة, Ihyaa al-Sina Mosque, al-Daghamsha, al-Sabra, south of Gaza City, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

At least 64 people were killed and at least six others were injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Ihyaa al-Sina mosque in the al-Daghamsha neighbourhood of al-Sabra, south of Gaza City. The Palestinian News Agency reported “around 50” people had been killed, which Arabi 21 News corroborated. Many of those who were identified

Summary

Religious Institution

64 – 101

(2 women32–62 men)

70 named, 2 families identified

near Raqqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

In an incident not previously tracked by Airwars, on July 7th 2017 the Coalition said it had concluded an assessment on social media claims of civilian harm “near Raqqah, Iraq”. According to the Coalition report, “92. April 28, 2017, near Raqqah, Syria, via social media report: No Coalition strikes were conducted on that day in

Summary

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

Impact

Belligerents reported killed

0–1

الثورة‎, Tabaqah, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

Seven civilians reportedly died and dozens more were injured in alleged Coalition airstrikes on Tabaqa, according to local media. The Smart News Agency reported “that warplanes likely belonging to the international coalition launched six raids on the first [al Awwal] and third [al Thaleth] neighborhoods in the city on Thursday evening, killing seven civilians, including

Summary

12–24

قرب الصرف الصحي الفاصل بين الطيانة وذيبان, near the sewer pipe between Al Thayana and Dhiban, east of Deir Ezzor, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

On Wednesday, September 6, 2023, a child was injured by the bullets allegedly coming from an SDF checkpoint near the sewer pipe separating the towns of Al-Tayana and Dhiban, east of Deir Ezzor. The incident was reported by multiple local sources indicating that the child was from the town of Al-Tayana. Where sources identified the

Summary

Small arms and light weapons

YPG

ميادين, Al Mayadin, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Four civilians died in an alleged Coalition airstrike on Al Mayadeen, according to a single source. The Shaam News Network was the only source pointing directly towards the Coalition, reporting that “international coalition planes launched an air strike targeting an arms factory belonging to IS in the city of Mayadeen, which led to the explosion

Summary

(2 women1 man)

3 named, 1 familiy identified

منزل عائلة العرير على طريق الخلايل, al Khalayel Road, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 16, 2023, 20 civilians were killed, including at least five children and three women, and a large number were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike that hit the al-Arair family home on Al Khalayel road, in the Al Shujaya neigborhood, Gaza City. Asma Mohammed, Beit Dajan Today, News Najah, Nabd and al-Haya reported

Summary

(5 children3 women5 men)

12–24

14 named, 1 familiy identified

Exact location (via Airwars)