Civilian Casualties

(32 children19 women13 men)

64 named, 1 familiy identified

منزل لعائلة محسن في شارع الهلال القديم غرب خانيونس, a house for the Mohsen family on Old Crescent Street, west of Khan Younis, Gaza strip, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 27, 2023, a house for the Mohsen family, located on Old Crescent Street, west of Khan Younis, was bombed in an alleged Israeli airstrike resulting in the deaths of at least four people, including a child not yet a day old, and numerous injuries. Initial reports by the Shehab Agency and Almanar News

Summary

(1 child3 women)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

يت, Hit, al Bakir, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

A reported coalition airstrike on a Daesh/ ISIL checkpoint also allegedly killed seven non-combatants, according to a single source. According to al Sharqiyah the civilians were caught up in the attack after being held at the checkpoint for an inspection.

Summary

LOCATION

صنعاء, 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

Summary

UK Military, US Forces

Suspected target

Houthi Forces

الرطبة, Ar Rutbah, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

In a major incident, up to 46 civilians died in an alleged Coalition airstrike (according to the Iraqi Revolution site) on the town of Ar Rutbah. The UN Mission to Iraq expressed “serious concern” about the event. The attack, which occurred shortly after dawn, reportedly killed a significant number of children, with graphic photographs widely

Summary

(3–11 children5–18 women1 man)

27 – 46

مدرسة تحرير ليبيا, Tahrer School, Tarabulus, Libya

LOCATION

One child was reportedly killed by indiscriminate artillery shelling on Qasr Bin Gashir. Riyadh Burshan said that Teqwa Abu Bakr Awn died after a shell landed in Qasr Bin Gashir. Libyan News said it was near the School of Liberation. Other sources published similar reports. According to local sources, GNA and LNA were fighting in

Summary

Government of National Accord, Libyan National Army

1 named

سيارة في شارع الحلو في محيط مقبرة السوارحة, a car in Al Hilo street in the vicinity Al Sawarha cemetery, Al Nuseirat camp, Gaza strip, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

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

Summary

3 – 4

1–2

4 named, 1 familiy identified

الصينيه, Senjah, Salah Al Din, Iraq

LOCATION

A mass casualty incident was reported in Iraq, with at least 43 civilians killed and a further 68 injured, after aircraft were said to have bombed the Senyah region north west of Bayji. The target appeared to have been a former Iraq Army logistics base, while those killed were living nearby in tin shacks. Locals

Summary

43 – 58

68–70

على الحدود بين مديرية خب و الشعف و مديرية العبر, At the border between Khab wa Ash Sha'f the and the Al Abr district , Hadramaut, Yemen

LOCATION

Six civilians, including a teenage boy, were reportedly killed by a US drone strike while driving in the border region between Al-Jawf and Hadramout governorates, at around 3pm on March 8th 2018. The Yemeni Minister of Human Rights, Mohamed Askar, condemned the attack as “extrajudicial killings”. A US Central Command spokesperson later told the Long

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

(1 child5 men)

Known belligerent

US Forces

6 named, 1 familiy identified

تل الهوى، مدينة غزة, Tal Al Hawa, Gaza City, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 31, 2023, shortly before 7:45 AM, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit Tal Al Hawa, a neighbourhood in the south of Gaza City, and injured a number of civilians. Al Jazeera, the Shehab Agency, and all other sources available to Airwars reported that the strike injured multiple civilians, but none of them specified an

Summary

IDP or refugee camp

الحويجة, Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq

LOCATION

A single source reported that members of a family were killed or injured, after Coalition aircraft reportedly struck three civilian cars near the city of Hawijah. The victims were said to be travelling to Hawijah to pick up their state pensions. According to NRN, “the international coalition may have believed that those cars were linked

Summary

LOCATION

Raqqa, Syria

In the Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, one civilian was reportedly killed in alleged Coalition artillery strikes in Raqqa. Although Airwars assesses single sourced incidents as “weak”, researchers have assessed this incident “fair” due to the depth of material provided by Amnesty. The report stated that”Mohannad Mohammed

Summary

(1 child)

منطقة الشيخ ناصر ومعان، خانيونس, Sheikh Nasser/Ma'an area, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On Wednesday, November 1st, 2023, five civilians, including three children, were reportedly injured by an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the Al-Awaiti family in the Sheikh Nasser/Ma’an area in Khan Younis. The names of the civilians are unknown. Wafa News reported that early morning air raids were conducted that affected several areas in

Summary

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

There were claims that eleven civilians were killed including two children – with three doctors injured – after Coalition aircraft allegedly bombed two health centers in Aski Mosul and Baduish villages in Mosul. In their January 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were responsible for civilian harm in these strikes

Summary

(2 children)

قرب قرية الميلبية على طريق الشدادي, near Al Milbiya village on Al Shadadi road, Al Hassakah, Syria

LOCATION

SANA reported: “A number of civilians were injured when a convoy for US occupation forces hit a microbus on al-Shadadi road in Hasaka southern countryside. The SANA reporter said that a convoy for US occupation forces on Wednesday [Nov 25th] afternoon hit a microbus carrying civilians near al-Milbiyah village on al-Shadadi- Hasaka road in the

Summary

Counter-Terrorism Action (Ground)

2–3

Accidents related to conflict

منزل عائلة عفانة بمنطقة الفالوجا شمال القطاع, Afana family’s home in the Al-Faluga area, north of the Gaza Strip, Gaza strip, North Gaza, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

On October 28th 2024, an alleged Israeli strike reportedly hit the Afana family home in the Al-Faluga area, north of the Gaza Strip, killing at least two female civilians, both children and injuring at least two people, including an infant. The two civilians killed were identified as 17-year-old Saja Shaaban Mohammed Afana and 1-year-old Nesreen Mohamed Shaaban

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

(2 children)

2–3

2 named, 1 familiy identified

سلوك, Suluk, Raqqa, Syria

LOCATION

A civilian man named as Hmaid al Agha was reported by VDC as having been killed at Slouk in a Coalition airstrike. The website Al Sharq al Arabi also listed Mr al Agha as killed, though did not attribute responsibility. In their February 2020 civilian casualty report, the US-led Coalition assessed reports that they were

Summary

(1 man)

قيفه, Qifah, Al Bayda, Yemen

LOCATION

Three ISIS militants were killed by a US strike in Al Bayda governorate on November 26th 2017, a US Central Command spokesperson told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. This confirmed earlier reports that a US drone strike had taken place in Qayfa in Al Bayda governorate on that night. However several local sources and news

Summary

Airstrike, Drone Strike

3 – 5

(5 children)

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), ISIS - Yemen

Known belligerent

US Forces

Known targets

Belligerents reported killed

منزل عائلة الكرد في حي الجنينه برفح, al-Kurd Family Home, al-Jeneina Neighbourhood, Rafah, Gaza Strip, Rafah, the Gaza Strip

LOCATION

Shortly before 20:04 on Sunday, 29 October 2023, at least eight identified members of the al-Kurd family, including four women and two children, were killed and at least five others, including a young girl, were injured when their home near to the Awad Tower in the al-Jeneina neighbourhood of Rafah was reportedly hit by an

Summary

(3 children4 women1 man)

12 named, 1 familiy identified

عامرية الفلوجة, Ameriat al Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq

LOCATION

Ameriat Al Fallujah council complained that a mistaken strike by undefined aircraft had hit a civilian house in the village 17km south of Fallujah, which resulted in the death of one civilian and the injuring of 7 others. According to Shaker Mahmoud, head of the council, the strike hit a house in the Heramat Amiriyah

Summary

US-led Coalition, Iraq Government Forces

مسكن مصطفى ناجي المرابط, Mustafa Naji Al Morabit, Marqab, Libya

LOCATION

Two children and their mother were allegedly killed in a NATO airstrike on Zliten. The Telegraph said: “Residents from the town said the strike happened just after 6am, killing brothers Mohammed, three, and Moataz, five, and their mother Ibtisam. Moussa Ibrahim, Libyan government spokesman, accused Nato of bombing civilian targets frequently. He said: In the

Summary

(2 children1 woman)

4 named, 1 familiy identified

بوداي بالبقاع, Boudai Al-Bekaa, Bekaa, Lebanon

LOCATION

At least one civilian was reportedly killed and six others injured, some of them seriously, by an alleged Israeli bombardment on the town of Boudai Al-Bekaa in the northern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. A tweet from the @LebCitizensNews reported that Israeli raids resulted in “A civilian martyr and a number of wounded in Boudai Al-Bekaa”. Al-Ahed

Summary

Airstrike and/or Artillery

الموصل‎, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq

LOCATION

A likely targeted operation in Mosul killed ISIL’s media chief in the city when his car was struck – but also reportedly slew his wife and five children. The nighttime attack reportedly killed Daesh ‘Media Minister’ Abdel Qader in his car in the vicinity of the city’s Saddam Hospital. However, according to NRN News, “his

Summary

(5 children1 woman)

جديد عكيدات , Jadid Akidat, Deir Ezzor, Syria

LOCATION

Local sources reported that a civilian was killed and two others were wounded when the US-led Coalition forces and SDF undertook a landing in Jadid Uqaydat in Deir Ezzor on September 29th, 2020. Two other people, described as oil merchants, were reported arrested as a result of the operation. The killed person was named by

Summary

(1 man)

Known belligerent

شارع النصر, al-Sharq Bakery, al-Nasr Street, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Gaza, the Gaza Strip

Syrian Democratic Forces

LOCATION

On 1 November 2023 dozens of civilians, including at least one identified civilian woman, were reportedly killed and dozens of others, including Civil Defence members, were injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes on the gathering of civilians near al-Sharq Bakery located on al-Nasr Street in Gaza City, and on the ambulances that arrived to evacuate the

Summary

Marketplace, Residential building

12 – 24

(1 woman)

12–24

Impact

2 named

دابق‎, Dabiq, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A 6-year old girl was reported killed in an alleged Coalition raid on the town of Dabiq, though the alliance has denied responsibility. VDC has named the victim as Sara al Naser. In its July 2017 civilian casualty report, the Coalition denied responsibility for the event, saying that it conducted no strikes nearby that day:

Summary

(1 child)

الدقماق, Al Dakmak, Idlib, Syria

LOCATION

At least two civilians were reported injured during alleged Syrian and/or Russian artillery shelling and/or airstrikes on the towns of Al Dakmak in the Al-Ghab Plain, west of Hama on July 14th 2020. The Syrian Civil Defence Forces of the Southern Directorate reported that two young men with injuries of varying degrees were rushed to

Summary

2–3

Russian Military, Syrian Regime

خضر, Khodor, Baalbek District, Lebanon

LOCATION

At least one militant and thirteen civilians, including four women, one of whom was pregnant, and seven children were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the town of Al-Khader located in the Baalbek region of the Beqaa governorate in eastern Lebanon shortly before 4 PM of Monday, September 23, 2024. Five civilians were also

Summary

(7 children4 women3 men)

13 named, 1 familiy identified

Geolocation

Village

Belligerents reported killed

منبج, Manbij, Aleppo, Syria

LOCATION

A reported Coalition airstrike on the agricultural secondary school in Manbij – being used as a temporary prison by so called Islamic State – led to the deaths of between 8 and 20 civilian captives according to local reports. Smart News reported: “Our reporter explained that raids carried out by international coalition aircraft targeted a

Summary

School

8 – 20