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Incident Date

21 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0431

Location

Rio Café on Jalal Street, Khan Yunis, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
مقهى ريو, شارع جلال, خان يونس
An alleged Israeli airstrike shortly before 10:55 PM on Saturday October 21st 2023, killed at least 13 civilians and injured 17 others sheltering in a café in Khan Younis. Shehab Agency was the first to report the incident at 10:55 PM, sharing images of the injured men being transported on stretchers. At 11:32 PM Safa…

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21 October 2023
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Incident Date

21 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0433

Location

Nuseirat camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
مخيم النصيرات
On October 21, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike killed 34-year-old Islam Omar Al Ashqar, a Dutch citizen and wife of Palestinian journalist Khaled Al Ashqar, and injured Haya Al Ashqar and Sham Al Ashqar, Islam and Khaled’s daughters, and Umm Hadi Al Ashqar, Islam’s mother, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza.…

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Published
21 October 2023
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Incident Date

21 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0448a

Location

Tal Al Sultan, Western Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
تل السلطان غرب رفح
On Saturday, October 21st, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the Abu Shamala family home located in the Tal Al Sultan neighborhood, western Rafah, the Gaza Strip, reportedly killing fifteen civilians spanning two generations, and wounding others, according to multiple sources. Among those killed were 28-year old Naderen Bashir Abu Shamala, who was pregnant at…

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21 October 2023
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Incident Date

21 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0448b

Location

Vicinity of Al Derawi Mosque, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
قريب من مسجد الديراوي
On October 21, 2023, a 49 year-old man named Basil Hassan Kamel Abu Shamala, also known as Abu Hassan, was killed by an alleged Israeli bombing near Al Derawi Mosque in Deir Al Balah, Gaza Strip. That day, his daughter, Bushra, confirmed his death on Facebook. Many of Abu Shamala’s relatives mourned his death in…

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Published
21 October 2023
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Incident Date

21 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4852

Location

Al Qunitra, west of Idlib, Idlib, Syria
قرية القنيطرة
Shortly before 11 AM on Saturday, October 21st, 2023, a female child was injured in an airstrike reportedly perpetrated by the Russian military forces in the Al Qunitra village west of Idlib, Syria. According to Orient News, the Russian military used vacuum bombs during the strike. The Syrian Civil Defense reported that a girl was…

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Published
21 October 2023
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Incident Date

19–20 October, 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0394

Location

Vicinity of Saint Porphyrius church, Al Zaytoun neighbourhood, Gaza, Palestinian territories
كنيسة القديس برفيريوس, الزيتون
On either late October 19th or the early hours of October 20th, between 14 and 28 people were killed and others were injured when the house of the Eliwa family, in the Al Zaytoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City was bombed in an alleged Israeli airstrike. Palinfo reported that people were killed and injured and…

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Published
20 October 2023
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Incident Date

20 October 2023

Incident Code

TS651

Location

Sheikh Esa,  the Al-Shahba area, Aleppo countryside, Aleppo, Syria
قرية الشيخ عيسى
On Friday, October 20th, 2023, an alleged Turkish artillery shelling in the village of Sheikh Esa, located in the Al-Shahba area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, injured a young man. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the 22-year-old man, named as Ali Radwan Ahmed, was taken to hospital for treatment for injuries suffered…

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20 October 2023
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Incident Date

20 October 2023

Incident Code

TS650

Location

Akaybah/Ogaybah, Shirawa, Afrin countryside, Aleppo, Syria
قرية عقيبة
On Friday, October 20th, two civilians were injured as a result of alleged Turkish military bombing on the town of Akaybah (Ogaybah in Kurdish). They were injured while working in the fields surrounding the town, and were taken to the closest medical center for treatment. One civilian was identified as 29-year-old Shaima Muhammad Rajab Talib.…

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20 October 2023
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Incident Date

20 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0415c

Location

The Gaza Strip, The Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories
On Friday, October 20th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike killed at least one civilian in the Gaza Strip; it is unknown whether others were killed or injured. The victim was identified as 22-year-old Louay al-Zuhairi. Louay was the first in his family to attend university, and was close to graduating at the time of his…

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20 October 2023
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Incident Date

19 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0366

Location

Shujaiya neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On October 19th 2023, an unknown number of people were killed and injured by an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Hassouna family home in the Shujaiya neighbourhood. The Palestinian Ministry of Interior reported on "Martyrs and wounded" resulting from an Israeli airstrike on "a house for the “Hassouna” family in the "Shujaiya neighbourhood".  Other sources…

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Published
19 October 2023
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Incident Date

18 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0349

Location

Bani Suhaila, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
ِبني سهيلا
Shortly before 1:15pm on Wednesday, October 18th, 2023, at least one woman was reportedly killed and two civilians were injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the Al-Raqab family in the Salah al-Din neighborhood in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip. At 1:15pm Safa News reported…

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Published
18 October 2023
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Incident Date

7 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT00013

Location

Nasser medical complex, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
مجمع ناصر الطبي
On October 7, 2023, one journalist and a number of civilians - including paramedics and media crew - were reportedly injured by an alleged Israeli strike on a Ministry of Health ambulance close to the Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis, Gaza. The vehicle was reportedly severely damaged by the blast. The journalist was identified by…

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Published
18 October 2023
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Incident Date

18 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0359a

Location

Deir al Balah, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
دير البلح
At approximately 7:30pm on Wednesday, October 18th 2023, a home sheltering the Musa family on Abu Arif Street in Deir al-Balah collapsed due to alleged Israeli airstrikes, killing between eight and more than 30 people. 65-year old Hiam Musa was, at the time of writing, the only person to be named as having been killed…

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Published
18 October 2023
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Incident Date

18 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4849

Location

Sermin (Sarmin), Idlib, Idlib, Syria
سرمين
On Wednesday, October 18th, 2023, two women and a man were reportedly injured as a result of the bombardment allegedly perpetrated by Russian military and/or Syrian regime forces on a residential neighborhood in the city of Sermin (Sarmin), east of Idlib, Syria. No further details on the identity of the injured civilians have been reported…

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Published
18 October 2023
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Incident Date

18 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4850

Location

Termanin, north of Idlib, Idlib, Syria
ترمانين
Around 9 PM on Wednesday, October 18th, 2023, three civilians, including a child, were reportedly injured as a result of an alleged artillery attack in Termanin, north of Idlib, Syria. The attack was reportedly perpetrated by the Syrian regime and/or the Russian military and/or by the Iranian military. Allegedly, the attack hit a residential neighborhood…

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Published
18 October 2023
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Incident Date

18 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4851

Location

Al-Kafir, western countryside of Idlib, Idlib, Syria
الكفير
During the evening of Wednesday, 18th October 2023, Russian warplanes allegedly launched an airstrike that hit an out-of-service tank and a hay warehouse in a nearby building on the outskirts of Ishtabrag in the western countryside of Idlib, Syria, according to the Syrian Civil Defense. This led to the injury of a woman in the…

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Published
18 October 2023
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Incident Date

18 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0348

Location

Beit Lahia, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
بيت لاهيا
Shortly before 1:38pm on Wednesday October 18th 2023, seven identified members of the Abu Jalhoum family, including a mother with her five children, were killed and seven others were reportedly injured when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit their home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. At 1:38 PM the Palestinian News Agency Safa…

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Published
18 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

TI099

Location

Kani Kindi village, Koya District, Kurdistan, Iraq
قرية كاني كندي
On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, one man was killed and up to three other civilians, women, were injured after an alleged Turkish drone strike on a car in the Kani Kindi village in the Koya district of Kurdistan, Iraq. The car was reported to have belonged to citizens of the Makhmour refugee camp; the driver…

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Published
17 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332e

Location

Jourat al-Lout area, Khan Yunis, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
جورة اللوت, خان يونس
At dawn on Tuesday, October 17th 2023, between 23 and 27 members of the Sabah family including at least seven women, 10 children, and an infant were killed, and many others, including displaced civilians and at least five children, were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Sabah family home in the Jourat al-Lout…

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Published
17 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0278

Location

al Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza, Palestinian territories
المستشفى الاهلي العربي
In perhaps the most well-known, and hotly debated, incident from the war in Gaza, civilians were killed while sheltering at the Al Ahli hospital on October 17th 2023. The incident was widely-reported, with a fierce dispute as to whether the civilian casualties were caused by a Palestinian militant rocket fired at Israel that fell short…

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Published
17 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4848

Location

the “‘Al-Qaswa”’ IDP camp in the vicinity of Sheikh Yousef area, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
محيط بلدة الشيخ يوسف
In the early morning and in the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th October 2023, ten airstrikes allegedly perpetrated by Russian forces on the “Al-Qaswa” IDP camp and civilian homes in the outskirts of the town of Sheikh Youssef in the western countryside of Idlib, Syria, injured four civilians, including two women and two girls. The Syrian…

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Published
17 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

TS649

Location

Kalotah village, Shirawa district, Afrin countryside, Aleppo, Syria
قرية كالوته
During the night of Monday, October 16, 2023, a child, Muhammad Qushu Ali, was injured by alleged Turkish and Sham Legion military artillery shells in the village of Kalotah, in the Afrin countryside of northern Syria. Muhammad Qushu Ali’s age remains unclear: according to the Afrin post, the child was 3 years old. However, Efrin…

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Published
16 October 2023
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Incident Date

13 October 2023

Incident Code

TI098

Location

Makhmur camp, Erbil Governorate , Kurdistan, Iraq
مخيم مخمور
A woman was injured after an alleged Turkish drone strike hit a home in the Makhmur camp at approximately 9:25AM on October 13th, 2023. The woman, 50-year-old Aisha Muhammad Ahmed, was a resident of the camp, which houses between 10,000 to 12,000 displaced Kurds. Her injuries, many of which look to be on her face…

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Published
13 October 2023
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Incident Date

13 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4847

Location

Jabal Al Arbaeen, Ariha, Idlib, Syria
جبل الأربعين
Shortly before midnight of Friday, October 13th, 2023, the mother of the SCD volunteer Ahmed Mahdi Ahmadou was killed and his father was injured, but later succumbed to his injuries, in the bombardment of their house reportedly perpetrated by the Russian military in the Jabal Al Arbaeen area near Ariha city, in the southern countryside…

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Published
13 October 2023
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Incident Date

11 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0134f

Location

Yabna camp, Rafah, Palestinian territories
مخيم يابنا
On October 11th, 2023, an airstrike in Yabna Refugee Camp, Rafah killed Muhammad Fayez Yousef Abu Mattar, a 28 year old photojournalist. Multiple sources, including Iyad Abu Zubaida, reported that there were “no casualties” in the Abu Shamala family home in Yabna Camp. However, journalist Adel Zourob posted on Facebook that “without warning, [Israeli] aircraft…

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Published
11 October 2023
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Incident Date

11 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4845

Location

Marayan, Jabal al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib, Idlib, Syria
On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, a civilian was injured by an artillery shelling allegedly perpetrated by Syrian regime forces and/or the Russian military in the town of Marayan in Jabal al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib. According to @baladi Twitter/X user, the injured man was taken to a hospital nearby for treatment. Syria TV,…

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Published
11 October 2023
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Incident Date

10 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0102q

Location

Al Shouka neighbourhood, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
حي الشوكة، رفح
During the afternoon of Tuesday, October 10th, 2023, a home of the Abu Mathkour family located in the Al Shouka neighbourhood, east of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was hit by an alleged Israeli airstrike, killing at least five identified men, three of whom's civilian status is contested and one of whom was a militant.…

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Published
10 October 2023
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Incident Date

10 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0101

Location

Al Sahaba Street, Gaza, Palestinian territories
شارع الصحابة
At 5:15 pm on Tuesday, October 10th 2023, 16 civilians, including at least nine members of the Hijazi family, were killed, and at least three children were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the residential homes belonging to the Hijazi, al-Safadi, Atallah, and al-Sik families located in Al Sahaba street in the Al Daraj…

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Published
10 October 2023
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Incident Date

10 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0098

Location

Al Shujaiya neighborhood, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian territories
الشجاعي، مدينة غزة
During the afternoon of October 10th 2023, six civilians, most of whom were children, were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Aslim family home, located in the Al Shujaiya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip. Alaa Ahmed Zaino (30) and her children, Yahya Muhannad Sami Aslim (12), Hala Muhannad Sami Aslim (10), Majda Muhannad Sami Aslim (5), and…

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Published
10 October 2023
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Incident Date

9 October 2023

Incident Code

TS648

Location

Al-Mastoor village, near Ain Essa district, Hasakah, Al Hassakah, Syria
قرية المستور
In the afternoon of Monday, October 9th, 2023, an alleged Turkish artillery strike reportedly killed two children -  a girl named Nadia Mohsen Al-Ayyash (aged 8-10, according to different sources) and a boy named Ali Ahmed Al-Ayyash (aged 6-9) in the village of Al-Mastour located in the western outskirts of the city of Ain Issa,…

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9 October 2023
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