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 the Al-Jazeera District of Al-Hasakah governorate, Syria. Most of the injured civilians belonged to the Musa family. Additionally, between three and four Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters were reportedly killed in this series of strikes.

There were multiple strikes in different locations reported by local sources. According to an SDF statement released on May 31, 2024, 11 civilian injuries resulted from three strikes on civilian cars and two strikes on civilian homes in Qamishlo, in addition to the death of four of its fighters. A subsequent “double-tap strike” was carried out against the ambulance that was trying to evacuate “the martyrs and wounded.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights clarified that the civilian injuries occurred “after an ambulance was targeted while it was on its way with a number of civilians to the location where the military vehicle was targeted.” The military vehicle which was initially struck “[belonged] to a leader in the “self-defense” of the Syrian Democratic Forces, this evening, and resulted in the killing of the leader and two other members, his companion and the car’s driver.” Hurrya Press spoke with a local source who said that the members of the SDF were in a “pick-up” car loaded with ammunition in the village of Al-Hanwa” when the initial strike occurred.

Reporting from Hawar News and ANF News provided the names of 14 people who were injured in the strikes on the villages of Tamim al-Hanwa and Salamasa. According to hospital records, 14 of the injured are Musa Musa, 60 years old; Amin Musa, 40 years old; Nahi Musa, 20 years old; Maryam Daoud Mahmoud, 50-52 years old; Hani Yassin Musa, 30 years old; Laith Ibrahim Musa, 17 years old; Muhammad al-Musa, 11 years old; Izz al-Din Suleiman Musa, 30 years old; Qais al-Musa, 17 years old; Amsha al-Musa, 45 years old; Murad Abdel Musa, 14 years old; and Ibrahim al-Musa, 10 years old; another Musa Musa, 17 years old; Amira Saleh Musa, 40 years old. The supervising medical staff confirmed to Hawar News that the condition of the injured victims had become stable.

Hawar News spoke with victims of the attack who indicated that they were injured while trying to put out a fire that had broken out in the agricultural field and treat the wounded from the initial strike when they were hit by another strike. Hawar News posted a video inside the hospital where some of the victims were being treated, and interviewed one of the victims, an elderly man who said that had just returned home from Friday prayers and they were taking a nap when they heard a sound and spotted a fire from the initial strike, along with injured victims. When a crowd had gathered to help the initial victims, a second strike occurred.

Hawar News shared the images of some of the injured civilians – a middle-aged woman wearing a wine-red flowery dress and a brown head scarf lying on a hospital bed with her arm connected to an IV; a boy in black trousers with his arm stained with blood also connected to an IV; a young man dressed in a gray long-sleeved sport shirt lying on a hospital bed. Kurd-Online News added some additional images of the injuries – an elderly man with multiple stomach wounds and a middle-aged woman with an arm injury.

The claims of civilian casualties and the attribution of the strike to Turkish forces were corroborated by multiple independent sources, including local news networks and social media posts.

The incident occured in the evening.