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Incident Date
13 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0187C
Location
بني سهيلا, Bani Suheila, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
On October 13th 2023, 16 year old Amani Musab Youssef Muhammad al-Raqab, 33 year old Nizam Saad Abdul Qadir al-Qara, and his one month old nephew Ibrahim Ammar Saad al-Qara were killed and eight others were injured by an alleged Israeli airstrike that hit the Qara family home in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis. According…
Summary
Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
25 December 2023
Incident Code
RS4877
Location
سارمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria
At approximately noon on Monday, December 25, 2023, an alleged Russian military and/or the Syrian regime and/or Iranian militia missile strike hit a neighbourhood in the city of Sarmin, east of Idlib, hitting a school, a residential building, and the road between the two. The strikes killed a man and injured at least four identified…
Summary
Published
25 December 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
(
Apartment Building
),
Education
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
4–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
25 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0587
Location
بالقرب من برج التاج 3، مدينة غزة, Vicinity of al-Taj Tower 3, Gaza City, Gaza , Palestinian territories
Around 4 p.m. on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, a devastating airstrike carried out by the Israeli military on the Yarmouk Square west of Gaza City, and all of its eight apartment buildings, including Al-Taj residential building, killed at least 114 civilians, including at least 48 children and 37 women, among them two female journalists, and…
Summary
Published
1 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Commerce
(
Bakery
),
Residential
(
Apartment Building
)
Civilians reported killed
119–120
Civilians reported injured
100–260
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
8 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0032
Location
جوار مسجد عبد العزام, Vicinity of Abdel Azzam Mosque, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
On October 8th 2023, at around 12:30pm, the Al Zaneen family house located near Abdel Azzam Mosque in Izbet Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by an Israeli warplane. At least 21 members of the large Al Zaneen family were killed across three generations: 66-year old Jamil Hassan Muhammad Al Zaneen…
Summary
Published
1 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
(
Apartment Building
)
Civilians reported killed
21–22
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
12 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0141
Location
بالقرب ملعب اليرموك, Vicinity of Yarmouk Stadium, Gaza, Palestinian territories
At least one civilian was killed and another injured when an alleged Israeli bomb hit a three-storey residential house belonging to Rajab al-Radhi'a al-Masri on October 12th 2023. The building was reportedly near the Yarmouk Stadium, in the Beit Lahiya neighborhood, in the center of Gaza City. Multiple sources describe there being a number of…
Summary
Published
1 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
1–2
Civilians reported injured
1–2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
12 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0148
Location
برج المصرى, Al Masry Tower , Rafah, Palestinian territories
On Thursday, October 12, 2023, a residential apartment building in Al-Masry Tower in the centre of the city of Rafah was reportedly hit by an alleged Israeli strike killing the four young children of Yasser Al-Bardawil - two sons and two daughters - and injuring a further 28 civilians, according to a Shehab Agency correspondent.…
Summary
Published
1 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
28
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
12 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0149
Location
برج G6، أبراج مدينة حمد, Tower G6, Hamad Town Towers, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
During the evening of Thursday, October 12th 2023, up to four Palestinian civilians, including a four-month old girl, were killed and from eight to 25 civilians were injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment building in the Hamad Towers in the town of Hamad, in Khan Yunis in the…
Summary
Published
1 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
(
Apartment Building
)
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
8–25
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
10 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0092
Location
الأمل, Al Amal, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
At least seven people from three generations of the Awad family were killed and seven others were injured when the Awad family's five-storey home, in the Al-Amal neighborhood of western Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, was reportedly bombed by an Israeli military aircraft on Tuesday, October 10th 2023. Al-Ahram News reported…
Summary
Published
1 December 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
7
Civilians reported injured
7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
7 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0008
Location
عبسان الكبيرة, Abasan al-Kabira, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
On October 7th 2023, 18 members of the same family, including at least seven children and four women, were reportedly killed in an alleged Israeli military airstrike, leaving at least one named survivor, 11 year-old Tala Abu Daqqa, with injuries. Other sources reported that between 25 to 150 civilians were injured. The attack reportedly took place…
Summary
Published
1 November 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
(
Apartment Building
)
Civilians reported killed
18
Civilians reported injured
25–150
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
5 November 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0905
Location
محيط شارع الصناعة, Vicinity of Al Sinaa Street, Gaza, Palestinian territories
Eight people, including three children, all from the Al Rayees family, were killed on November 5, 2023, when two alleged Israeli missiles hit their seven-story house, the Al-Safadi Building on Al-Sinaa Street. @Hakeam_ps, a neighbour of Al Rayees family, described their own escape and forced displacement after their house was destroyed in the same strike,…
Summary
Published
1 November 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
,
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
10 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0080
Location
تل الزعتر, Tal al-Zaatar , North Gaza, Palestinian territories
In the evening of October 10th, 2023, up to nine members of the Shaheen family, including two women, a 17-year old child and 10-year old child, were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on their family home in the Tal al-Zaatar area of the Jabalia camp in the north of the Gaza strip. The three-storey…
Summary
Published
1 November 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
8–9
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
9 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0045
Location
مبنى البلدية القديم, Old municipality building, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
On October 9th 2023, an alleged strike by the Israeli military resulted in the destruction of the old municipality building of Khan Yunis and the surrounding area. At least four civilians were killed in this attack. Through various social media posts, they were identified as Hani Ghassan Qudyah (19 years old), Ahmed Shehdeh Abu Teir…
Summary
Published
1 November 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
50
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
8 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0031
Location
مخيم النصيرات 5, Al Nuseirat Camp 5, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
On October 8th 2023, a civilian home in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip was reportedly hit by an Israeli airstrike killing between four and five civilians from the same family, including at least two children, and wounding between 21 and 22 others. According to Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, the Israeli…
Summary
Published
1 November 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
4–5
Civilians reported injured
21–22
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
22 October 2023
Incident Code
ISPT0480
Location
بالقرب من مسجد الرضوان، الشيخ رضوان، مدينة غزة, Vicinity of Ar Ridwan Mosque, Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On Sunday, October 22nd 2023, the home of the Abu Al-Omrain family in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, northern Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by an Israeli military aircraft, resulting in eleven civilian deaths and other injuries. Rabab Abu Hatab, in a post on Facebook, reported that the bombing destroyed not only the Abu Al-Omrain family home…
Summary
Published
22 October 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
11
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
15 March 2017
Incident Code
RS1963
Location
القصور, Al Qusour neighbourhood, Idlib city, Idlib, Syria
At least 39 civilians were killed, including 25 children and six women, and dozens more were injured, following a raid which hit residential housing in the al-Qusour neighbourhood, Idlib city, local media reported. Sources were conflicted as to who was to blame, with some attributing blame to Russia and others to the Syrian regime. Various…
Summary
Published
15 March 2017
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
(
Apartment Building
)
Civilians reported killed
39
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
30 March 2012
Incident Code
USYEM055-C
Location
عزان, Azzan, Shabwa, Yemen
The second targeted attack in a two-part alleged US airstrike hit an Al Qaeda hideout in Azzan in the Shabwa Province on the 30th of March, 2012, injuring four civilians. The Long War Journal reported that a Predator or Reaper fired missiles at a building which was thought to be occupied by AQAP. The Long…
Summary
Published
30 March 2012
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Infrastructure
Residential
(
Apartment Building
)
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
U.S. Forces
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