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Swedish Village, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories

القرية السويدية، رفح

On Friday, June 7th 2024, a number of people were reportedly killed and injured when Israeli forces allegedly entered the Swedish Village, west of the city of Rafah, near the Palestinian-Egyptian Border, in the south of the Gaza Strip. Although no source identified a number of victims killed, all sources referred to both killed and…

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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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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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Abasan Al Kabira, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories

عبسان الكبيرة

During the morning of June 7, 2024, an alleged Israeli bombardment hit the Tabsh family house in the town of Abasan Al Kabira, in the eastern part of the Khan Younis Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip. The strike killed between 9 and 13 civilians, including four women, four children, and one man, and injured…

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23 December 2024

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Residential (Apartment Building)

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Vicinity of Bisan Medical Center, Bureij camp, Deir al-Balah, Palestinian territories

بالقرب من مركز بيسان الطبي في مخيم البريج

In the early afternoon on June 7th 2024 an alleged Israeli bombing hit a house belonging to the Issa family in the vicinity of Bisan Medical Center in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. A number of injuries were reported, and calls were made for ambulances to go to the scene. The…

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11 October 2024

Airstrike and/or Artillery

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Al Maghazi refugee camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories

مخيم المغاز

In the early hours of Friday June 7th, 2024, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the home of Professor Hassan Al Rafati, located behind the government clinic, north of Al Maghazi refugee camp in Deir Al Balah. The strike killed six members of the Al Maghari family, including two young children. Six civilians were also reportedly…

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4 September 2024

Civilians reported killed

Civilians reported injured

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Al Jaafrawi area, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories

حارة الجعفرواي

On or shortly before June 7th, at least four civilians were likely killed by Israeli artillery in Deir Al-Bala. The location of the incident was not specified by sources, who only referred to the deceased as having been taken Al-Asqa hospital from from the Al Jaafrawi area. Facebook account Kalefalqtiea reported that four deceased men…

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11 October 2024

Civilians reported killed

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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Vicinity of Deir Al Balah, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories

بالقرب من دير البلح

Around 7:20 PM on Friday, June 7, 2024, the body of a civilian arrived at the Al Aqsa hospital. They were reported to be the victim of an alleged Israeli bombing on Salah Al Din Street, east of the city of Deir Al Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip. The identity…

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11 October 2024

Airstrike and/or Artillery

Civilians reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

Israeli Military

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Al-Sabra neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian territories

الصبرة، مدينة غزة

At dawn on June 7th, 2024, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Al Ashram family’s home near the Al-Salam mosque in the Al-Sabra neighbourhood of southern Gaza City, killing between two to three civilians and injuring six other civilians. The bombing killed the Imam and Judge Mohammad Al Ashram along with his daughter Toulin Al Ashram.…

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2 September 2024

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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;…

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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

Residential, IDP or Refugee Camp, Warehouse

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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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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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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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

IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential

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…

Summary

Water (Water tank), Vehicle

Military actors reported killed

Causes of Death / Injury

Heavy weapons and explosive munitions

International Forces (Unknown)

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