Civilian Casualties

Civilian Casualties

Incident Code

RS3894

Incident date

July 12, 2019

Location

أريحا, Ariha, Idlib, Syria

Airwars assessment

Alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes struck the cities of Idlib, Ma`ra al-Nu’man and Ariha in the north of Idlib, killing a combined total of six civilians including three children and two women and wounding up to 40.

According to Syrian Network for Human Rights blamed the Syrian regime and reported that their warplanes fired missiles near al Sheikh Ahmad al Shaibani Mosque in Ariha city. The source added that “at least five civilians, including a child and two women, were killed”.

In a tweet, @ShahbaPress reported that in addition to five civilians who were killed, 15 were wounded including women and children.

Syrian Civil Defense forces, who were at the scene, claimed that six civilians were killed, including two women and a child. The source added that 22 others were injured, including eight children.

Ariha Today named those killed as Tarek Mustafa Ahmado, Nargis Izz al-Din, Fatima Ahmed Rihawi, Bakour Ahmado, Mahmoud Hamsho, Haj Taher Ahmado.

Step News reported in a preliminary toll that the airstrikes killed a child and a woman and wounded 20 civilians. In two following posts, the source reported that a total of six civilians were killed and 22 were wounded.

According to Shaam News, two of the six civilians were women and one was a child.

@SyrianCoalition claimed that three children and two women were among those killed and 40 women and children were wounded.

The incident occured in the morning.

The victims were named as:

Family members (3)

Tarek Mustafa Ahmado طارق مصطفى أحمدو
Child male https://www.facebook.com/ArihaToday/photos/a.245641522505160/767813060288001/?type=3&theater killed
Bakour Ahmado بكور أحمدو
Adult male https://www.facebook.com/ArihaToday/photos/a.245641522505160/767813060288001/?type=3&theater killed
Taher Ahmado طاهر أحمدو
70 years old male https://www.facebook.com/ArihaToday/photos/a.245641522505160/767813060288001/?type=3&theater killed

The victims were named as:

Nargis Izz al-Din نرجس عز الدين
Adult female https://www.facebook.com/ArihaToday/photos/a.245641522505160/767813060288001/?type=3&theater killed
Fatima Ahmed Rihawi فاطمة أحمد ريحاوي
Adult female https://www.facebook.com/ArihaToday/photos/a.245641522505160/767813060288001/?type=3&theater killed
Mahmoud Hamsho محمود حمشو
Adult male https://www.facebook.com/ArihaToday/photos/a.245641522505160/767813060288001/?type=3&theater killed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian infrastructure
    Healthcare facility
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    6
  • (1 child2 women3 men)
  • Civilians reported injured
    15–40
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected belligerents
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (47) [ collapse]

Media
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  • Syrian Civil Defense volunteers carrying victims of an alleged Syrian regime airstrike on Al Sharqi neighborhood in Ariha city in Idlib on July 12th (via Syrian Network for Human Rights).
  • Syrian Civil Defense volunteer looking through the rubble after an alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike struck Ariha on July 12th (via Syrian Civil Defense).
  • Syrian Civil Defense volunteers carrying victims of an alleged Syrian regime airstrike on Ariha city in Idlib on July 12th (via Syrian Civil Defense).
  • Syrian Civil Defense volunteers searching for victims through the rubble after an alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike struck Ariha on July 12th (via Syrian Civil Defense).
  • Syrian Civil Defense volunteers searching for victims through the rubble after an alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrike struck Ariha on July 12th (via Syrian Civil Defense).
  • Grieving man who's family was killed by an alleged Syrian or Russian airstrike on Ariha on July 12th (via Syrian Civil Defense).

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    Image Caption Translation: "URGENT The number of martyrs who rose as a result of the targeting of the military aircraft in the city of Jericho, south of Idlib to 5 martyrs." (via Edlib Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "Martyrs and wounded resulting from the raid of hatred of Syrian warplanes targeting the eastern residential neighborhoods in the city of Jericho" (via Ariha today)
  • Image Caption Translation: "3 martyrs of two women and a child as an initial result and 22 injured, mostly women, as a result of aerial bombardment of the Syrian air Force using high-explosive missiles in a popular neighborhood in the city of Jericho." (via Ariha Today)
  • Image Caption Translation: "3 martyrs of two women and a child as an initial result and 22 injured, mostly women, as a result of aerial bombardment of the Syrian air Force using high-explosive missiles in a popular neighborhood in the city of Jericho." (via Ariha Today)
  • Image Caption Translation: "3 martyrs of two women and a child as an initial result and 22 injured, mostly women, as a result of aerial bombardment of the Syrian air Force using high-explosive missiles in a popular neighborhood in the city of Jericho." (via Ariha Today)
  • Image Caption Translation: "3 martyrs of two women and a child as an initial result and 22 injured, mostly women, as a result of aerial bombardment of the Syrian air Force using high-explosive missiles in a popular neighborhood in the city of Jericho." (via Ariha Today)
  • Image Caption Translation: "3 martyrs of two women and a child as an initial result and 22 injured, mostly women, as a result of aerial bombardment of the Syrian air Force using high-explosive missiles in a popular neighborhood in the city of Jericho." (via Ariha Today)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)

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    Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)

  • This media contains graphic content. Click to unblur.

    Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)

  • This media contains graphic content. Click to unblur.

    Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)

  • This media contains graphic content. Click to unblur.

    Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)

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    Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • Image Caption Translation: "URGENT Three martyrs were killed as a result of the air strikes that targeted the city of Jericho, south of Idlib" (via Macro Media Center)
  • 'Five martyrs and more than 20 wounded so far in Ariha.'
  • 'The Russian bloody campaign and the Assad gangs campaign are more intense than ever. In Ariha alone, 6 civilians were killed, and Ma`rat al-Nu`man three were killed. In Idlib, one civilian and another in Kafr Zita, and the number of wounded reached 45.'
  • 'The death toll rose to six and 22 civilians were injured as a result of airstrikes by the Assad regime's warplanes on the city of Ariha, near Idlib.'
  • 'White Helmets medics are searching among the rubble for the bodies of civilians who died in the bombing of the Syrian regime on the town of Jericho, in the south of Idlib Governorate.'
  • Syrian Defense members searching for survivals in the aftermath of an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrike on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @20fourMedia).
  • Syrian Defense members searching for survivals in the aftermath of an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrike on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @20fourMedia).
  • Aftermath of an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrike on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @20fourMedia).
  • A Syrian Defense member in the scene of an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrike on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @20fourMedia).
  • 'The first moments of the warplanes targeting the city of Ariha, south of Idlib, with missiles, what led to the death of three civilians and wounding many.'
  • Civilians and SCD volunteers in the location that was struck by alleged Russian or Syrian airstrikes in Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @binnish_revolu)
  • Civilians and SCD volunteers in the location that was struck by alleged Russian or Syrian airstrikes in Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @binnish_revolu)
  • Aftermath of an alleged Russian or Syrian airstrike in Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @binnish_revolu)
  • 'Three martyrs as a preliminary result and others trapped under the rubble as a result of the airstrikes that targeted the city of Ariha, south of Idlib.'
  • SCD volunteers on duty in the aftermath of alleged Russian or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via @fawaz_jwaid).
  • 'An airstrike this morning with 4 explosive missiles launched by a warplane belonging to the regime forces targeting civilian homes and a residential neighborhood in the city of Ariha that resulted in 6 martyrs, including 3 men, two women and a child, and 22 wounded. '

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    One of the civilians killed in alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via Syria7ra).

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    A civilian under the rubble as a result of an alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrike on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via Syria7ra).
  • Destruction as a result of alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via Syria7ra).
  • Image of alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via Syria7ra).
  • Syrian Defense members on duty after civilian casualties were reported as a result of alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via Syria7ra).
  • Image of alleged Russian and/or Syrian regime airstrikes on Ariha on July 12th, 2019. (via Syria7ra).

Syrian Regime Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Syrian Regime
  • Syrian Regime position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Russian Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Russian Military
  • Russian Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Contested strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike and/or Artillery
  • Civilian infrastructure
    Healthcare facility
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    6
  • (1 child2 women3 men)
  • Civilians reported injured
    15–40
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Contested
    Competing claims of responsibility e.g. multiple belligerents, or casualties also attributed to ground forces.
  • Suspected belligerents
    Syrian Regime, Russian Military
  • Suspected target
    Unknown

Sources (47) [ collapse]