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Abu Holi area, Deir al-Balah, Deir al-Balah, Palestinian territories

منطقة أبو هولي، دير البلح

On the morning of Friday, June 7th 2024 two people were reportedly killed in an alleged Israeli shelling of the Abu Holi area, south of Deir al-Balah in the central region of Gaza. The incident was initially reported by correspondents for the Palestinian press agency, Safa, and Al-Araby news agency. Multiple other news outlets repeated…

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2 September 2024

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Khuza’a, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories

On the morning of June 7th 2024, five civilians were reportedly injured in an alleged Israeli drone strike on the town of Khuza’a to the east of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. The five injured in the attack were identified on social media as a young man named Muhammad Qudaih, a woman Ihsan Muslim Abourjila, a…

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2 September 2024

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Beit Lahia, North Gaza, Palestinian territories

بيت لاهيا

On Friday June 7th, 2024, 44-year-old Tayseer Hani Sweilem (Abu Hani) was reportedly killed as a result of alleged Israeli gunfire from a Quadcopter aircraft north of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. Many local sources, including Kalefalgtiea, Khaled Mohammad and Rania Alkhodary reported on the incident and identified Tayseer Sweilem as the young…

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11 October 2024

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Small arms and light weapons

Israeli Military

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Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories

On the morning of Friday 7th of June 2024, at least one civilian was killed and four others were injured in an alleged Israeli ground operation with snipers who attacked the Fisherman’s port in the west of the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. The one civilian death was identified as…

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2 September 2024

Ground operation

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Small arms and light weapons

Israeli Military

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UNRWA affiliated Asmaa school, Al-Shati Camp, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian territories

مدرسة أسماء الثانية التابعة للأونروا، مخيم الشاطئ، مدينة غزة

In the early hours of June 7th 2024, at least four people were killed and at least seven others were injured in a declared Israeli airstrike on UNRWA Asmaa School, west of the Al Wahda Tower, in the Al Shati (Beach) refugee camp, west of Gaza City. A Facebook post made by Mohamed Awad, a…

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4 September 2024

Education, IDP or Refugee Camp

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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“Al-Sardi” preparatory boys’ school, which houses displaced persons in Camp 2 in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, Deir al Balah, Palestinian territories

مدرسة ذكور الإعدادية د "السردي" التي تؤوي نازحين بمخيم ٢ في النصيرات وسط القطاع

On the night of Thursday, June 6th, 2024, a declared Israeli airstrike hit the "Al-Sardi" Preparatory Boys' School in Camp 2, located in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip. The school, affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), was being used as a shelter for displaced…

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Education (Secondary School)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Ceel-Lahelay area, Bakool, Somalia

Seven al-Shabaab militants were killed and others were injured by an airstrike perpetrated by the Somali National Army along with international partners on 4 June, 2024, in Bakool. The strike was announced by the Somali Ministry of Defense as a “successful mission […] aimed at safeguarding civilians”. According to Facebook user "Taliska Guutada 9aad Ee…

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Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

International Forces (Unknown)

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Hayyan, Aleppo, Syria

On Monday, June 3rd, 2024, a number of civilians were reportedly killed in addition to between 12 to 17 militants that were killed and 15 others militants who were injured, following an alleged airstrike by the Israeli military on a copper factory located in the town of Hayyan, to the northeast of Aleppo, Syria. The…

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31 December 2024

Warehouse (Raw Material)

Civilians reported killed

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Tamim al-Hanwa and Salamasa villages in Tal Hamis countryside, village of Haram Sheikho near in the countryside of the city of Qamishlo in the Al-Jazeera District of Hasaka, Al Hasakah, Syria

Fourteen identified civilians, including two women and six children, were injured as a result of the multiple air and/or drone strikes, including a double-tap strike, allegedly perpetrated by the Turkish military on the evening of Friday, May 31st, 2024, in the villages of Tamim al-Hanwa and Salamasa in the Tel Hamis countryside of Qamishlo in…

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12 December 2024

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Turkish Military

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Halas family house near Al-Ghafri junction on Al-Jalaa street, Gaza, Palestinian territories

منزل عائلة حلس قرب مفترق الغفري

28-year-old journalist Alaa Abdul Wahab al-Dahdouh was killed alongside Adnan Halas in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Halas family home near the Al-Ghafri junction on Al-Jalaa Street during the morning of 31 May 2024. Olla’s husband Abdul Rahman Halas, and one-and-a-half-year-old son Karam Halas, were injured. Olla, Abdul Rahman and Karam had previously been…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Vicinity of Al-Sawarha cemetery, Nuseirat camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories

بالقرب من مقبرة الصوارة، مخيم النصيرات

On May 31st 2024, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a civilian car on Al-Helu Street near the Sawarha Cemetery, south of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp. The attack resulted in the deaths of Tariq Zaki Darwish, Hamza Zaki Darwish, and Abdul Rahman Abdul Karim Darwish. A potential fourth civilian, Nihad Jamal Al Auf, was also seriously wounded…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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the village of Sheikh Issa, Aleppo, Syria

قرية شيخ عيسى

On the evening of Friday, May 31st, 2024, one civilian was injured by an artillery strike in the village of Sheikh Issa in Aleppo, Syria. The civilian was allegedly injured by artillery shelling by Turkish forces and factions loyal to them in a village in the northern countryside of Aleppo. Several sources, including the Syrian…

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Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Turkish Military

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In the vicinity of Dhaardaar, approximately 81 km southeast of Bosaso, Somalia

In conjunction with the Somali government, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted a strike against Islamic State militants on 31 May, 2024 in “a remote area in the vicinity of Dhaardaar”. AFRICOM reported that the strike had killed three IS militants, “with no civilian casualties”. X/Twitter user @ZakeriyeAxmed reported that the strike targeted IS leader and…

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Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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30–31 May, 2024

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Vicinity of Al-Thawra Hospital, Al-Hudaydah, Al-Hudaydah, Yemen

مستشفى الثورة العام، الحديدة

Around midnight on May 30th-May 31st, 2024, at least two civilians were killed and up to 18 civilians were injured, including journalists, as a result of declared US-UK airstrikes on the Hudaydah Radio building located in front of Al-Thawra Hospital in Al Hudayah, Yemen. Four attacks that had been allegedly perpetrated on the building destroyed…

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Media (Radio Station)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

U.S. Forces, UK Military

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30–31 May, 2024

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Al-Sulayf seaport, Al-Hudaydah, Yemen

ميناء الصليف

Around midnight on May 30th-May 31st, 2024, 14 civilians, including a sailor named Ayoub Abdullah Hassan Zaidan, were killed and 25 other civilians were injured, including one heavily injured sailor, as a result of the declared US-UK airstrike on the Coast Guard building located in the Salif (Al Sulayf) seaport in the Al Hudayhah Governorate,…

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Transportation (Port)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

UK Military, U.S. Forces

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30–31 May, 2024

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Sanaa, Sanaa, Yemen

One civilian was injured as a result of the declared raids perpetrated by US and UK military on Sanaa, Yemen, around midnight on May 30th-May 31st, 2024. According to the statement issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces and posted by the Facebook user Murtada Ahmad Al Mahtouri, four strikes on the capital Sanaa allegedly perpetrated…

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Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

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a residential building in the southern Corniche neighborhood of the city of Banyas, Tartous, Syria

عمارة سكنية في حي الكورنيش الجنوبي بمدينة بانياس

At approximately 7:30 pm on Wednesday, 29th May 2024, an airstrike and/or artillery strike with contested responsibility allegedly perpetrated by the Israeli military or the Syrian regime forces on a residential building in the southern Corniche neighborhood of the city of Banyas, Tartous governorate, Syria, killed one young girl and injured at least twelve identified…

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31 December 2024

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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West of Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories

غرب مدينة رفح

Journalist Mahmoud Bassem was injured after allegedly being shot by an Israeli quadcopter drone on 28 May 2024. Though multiple sources reported the injury to Bassem's shoulder, his friend, writing on Mahmoud's X account, clarified that the wound was to his left hand. He had "received the necessary treatment" but expected to "continue treatment over…

Summary

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Small arms and light weapons

Israeli Military

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Calmadow/Almadow Mountains, Puntland, Somalia

Over 20 Al-Shabaab militants, including three high-level members, were allegedly killed and dozens injured by airstrikes conducted by the Somali government and "international partners" on 26 May, 2024 in the Calmadow mountains of Puntland. The strikes were reported to have targeted a “terrorist camp” and “disrupted a terrorist plot targeting civilians”. Multiple parties denied involvement;…

Summary

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

United Arab Emirates Military, International Forces (Unknown)

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Vicinity of UNRWA warehouses, Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories

بالقرب من مستودعات الأونروا الرئيسية، تل السلطان، رفح

At least 46 civilians, including at least 12 women and 13 children, were killed by a declared Israeli strike on displaced persons tents called the Kuwaiti Peace Camp near a UNRWA warehouse in the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah on May 26, 2024. Hundreds more were reported injured. The IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee announced that…

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29 September 2025

Warehouse, Residential, IDP or Refugee Camp

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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villages of Ousjali Saghir and Um Al-Satih, Manbij countryside, Aleppo, Syria

قرية ام السطح

Around dawn on Thursday, May 23, 2024, an alleged Turkish artillery attack on the Ousjali Saghir, Umm al-Satih, and other villages in the western countryside of the Manbji province, Syria, killed a woman and injured five citizens, including three children. Hawar News reported that 55-year-old Fateem Al-Dandan from the village of Umm Al-Satih in the western…

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Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Turkish Military

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Jabalia, North Gaza, Palestinian territories

29-year-old freelance photojournalist Abdullah Mustafa Ahmed al-Najar was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike on Jabalia Al-Balad during the afternoon on 18 May 2024. Facebook user "Activist Mohamed Farah" mourned Abdullah's death, writing that Abdullah was his cousin, who died "as a result of a targeted bombing in Jabalia, north of Gaza." Maysaa Sultan, another…

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Al-Shahba Dam vicinity in the north of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

سد الشهباء

An artillery or drone strike reportedly perpetrated by the Turkish military on the morning of Saturday, May 18th, 2024, resulted in the death of a child and the injury of three other children on an agricultural land in the Al-Shahba Dam vicinity located in the northern countryside of Aleppo Governorate, Syria. The victim, Fares Khalaf Ibrahim, a…

Summary

Airstrike (Drone Strike), Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Turkish Military

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village Al-Tokhar, northeastern countryside of Manbij, east of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

On the morning of Saturday, May 18, 2024, an alleged artillery strike carried out by Turkish forces and allied factions on the civilian homes located in the Syrian village of Al-Tokhar in the northeastern countryside of Manbij, northeast of Aleppo, injured three civilians, including a child. According to local sources referencing the Manbij Military Council,…

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Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Turkish Military

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Al-Wahidi family house in Al-Houja area, Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, Palestinian territories

منزل عائلة الوحيدي في منطقة الهوجا

On 16 May 2024, multiple local news outlets cited the Gaza General Directorate of Civil Defense in reporting that an individual at the home of the “Al-Wahidi” family in the Al-Houja (Al-Hawja) area of Jabalia Refugee Camp in North Gaza was rescued by a civil defense fire crew after being hit by alleged Israeli artillery…

Summary

Residential, IDP or Refugee Camp

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Ali Hayle area of Middle Shabelle, Galmudug, Somalia

An airstrike reportedly carried out by the Somali government and “international partners” on 15 May, 2024 on the Ali Hayle area of the Middle Shabelle resulted in the deaths of several militants. Along with the al-Shabaab members killed, the strike destroyed a water tank, according to Halqabsi News. The Facebook page for Baraawe TV, reporting…

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Water (Water tank), Vehicle

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

International Forces (Unknown)

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Al Houja street, Jabalia refugee camp, North Gaza, Palestinian territories

شارع الهوجا

On May 14th, 2024, three people were reportedly killed, including a nine-year-old child, in an alleged Israeli artillery shelling near al-Houja (al-Hawja) street in Jabalia Refugee Camp, north of the Gaza Strip. Local sources, including @Adham Samir Haboub and @Mahmoud A.Haboub, identified two of those killed as 51-year-old Imad Haboub (Abu Mahmoud) and his nine-year-old grandson…

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IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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village Umm Jaloud in the Manbij countryside, east of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria

قرية أم جلود

On Tuesday, May 14th, 2024, one civilian was reportedly injured as a result of an alleged Turkish artillery shelling in the Manbij countryside, to the east of Aleppo, Syria. The village of Umm Jaloud and the surrounding area were struck by mortar shells allegedly coming from the Turkish military base in the village of Al-Yashli.…

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Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Turkish Military

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Khirbat Al Adas, Rafah, Palestinian territories

خربة العدس

On Sunday, May 12th 2024, 30-year-old Abdelrahman Fouad Ahmad Madi was killed by gunfire from an alleged Israeli quadcopter in the Khirbat Al Adas area of the Gaza Strip. The day of the alleged Israeli attack, Facebook user Mohamed Awad and Twitter/X user @khalidalmaktari reported that “since morning, four martyrs and a number of injuries…

Summary

Airstrike (Drone Strike)

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Small arms and light weapons

Israeli Military

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Vicinity of Rafah crossing, Rafah, Palestinian territories

محيط معبر رفح

On Sunday May 12th 2024, a 43 year old man, Muhammed Misbah Hassan Abu Hamda, was reportedly killed as a result of alleged Israeli gunfire in the vicinity of the Rafah crossing. In a tweet sharing news of various incidents from the same day, the account @az_za98 posted to X/ Twitter to further report the…

Summary

Ground operation

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Small arms and light weapons

Israeli Military

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