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Incident Date
28 November 2024
Incident Code
RS4924
Location
سرمينمدرسة وسوق ومناطق سكنية في سرمين ، إدلب, school, market and residential areas in Sarmin, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
On Thursday, November 28, 2024, an airstrike and/or heavy artillery and missile bombardment of Sarmin, east of Idlib, Syria, left six civilians injured, including four men, one of them elderly, and a married couple. The attack, attributed to Syrian regime forces and/or Iranian military and/or the Russian military, struck densely populated residential neighborhoods and the…
Summary
Published
9 April 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
,
Commerce
(
Market
),
Education
(
Primary School
)
Civilians reported injured
6
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
7 November 2024
Incident Code
ISPT071124t
Location
مدرسة ذكور الشاطئ الإبتدائية (ج), Al-Shati Elementary Boys School, Al Shati refugee camp, Gaza, Palestinian territories
At least 17 civilians and at least one Hamas militant were killed after a declared Israeli airstrike on the Al-Shati Boys Elementary School (Shuhaybar School) in the Al-Shati Refugee Camp west of Gaza City on 7 November, 2024. The school was reportedly housing thousands of displaced people at the time of the strike. The Israel…
Summary
Published
6 February 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
IDP or Refugee Camp
,
Education
(
Primary School
)
Civilians reported killed
17–18
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Military actors reported killed
1–2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
17 October 2024
Incident Code
ISPT171024f
Location
مدرسة أبو حسين الابتدائية للذكورجباليا, Abu Hussein Elementary School for Boys, Jabalia, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
In the early afternoon of Thursday, October 17, 2024, alleged Israeli forces (either through artillery strikes or tank fire) hit the Abu Hussein Elementary School for Boys affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) located in the Jabalia Refugee Camp, North Gaza, reportedly killing at least 18 civilians, including…
Summary
Published
24 December 2024
Strike Type
Ground operation
,
Artillery
Infrastructure
Education
(
Primary School
),
IDP or Refugee Camp
,
Humanitarian
(
Food/Water Distribution
)
Civilians reported killed
18–35
Civilians reported injured
150
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
23 September 2024
Incident Code
RS4911
Location
كفريا, Kafriya and its outskirts, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
Shortly before 7:28 PM on Monday, September 23, 2024, Professor Mohamad Hamdo Al-Attouk (Abu Hamid), an elderly man, was among the five civilians killed, among them between one and two women. Up to thirteen civilians, including three women and eight children, were also injured in an artillery strike on the town of Kafriya, in particular,…
Summary
Published
28 March 2025
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Education
(
Primary School
),
Vehicle
(
Truck
)
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
11–13
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
15 September 2024
Incident Code
RS4908
Location
سرمين, western neighbourhood of the city of Sarmin, Idlib, Syria
Shortly before 4:40 PM on Sunday, September 15, 2024, a child named Mohammad Somar Haj Lattouf and a young man named Abdulaziz Jamal Abboud were injured as a result of artillery shelling with contested responsibility allegedly perpetrated by Syrian regime forces and/or Iraniian military and/or Russian military in the western neighbourhood of the city of…
Summary
Published
4 March 2025
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Education
(
Primary School
),
Residential
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date
6 July 2024
Incident Code
ISPT060724g
Location
مدرسة الجاعوني, Al Jaouni School, Al Nuseirat camp, Deir al-Balah, Palestinian territories
Shortly before 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, 6th July 2024, a declared Israeli airstrike hit the UNRWA-affiliated Al-Jaouni School sheltering thousands of displaced people in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 10 identified civilians, including four children, and injuring up to 75 civilians, most of them children and…
Summary
Published
19 September 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Education
(
Primary School
),
IDP or Refugee Camp
Civilians reported killed
10–16
Civilians reported injured
50–75
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date
1 January 2020
Incident Codes
IRS004 RS4299
Location
سرمين, Sarmin, Idlib, Syria
Up to 11 civilians including seven children and two women were reported killed, and up to 25 others including three children and three women - one of whom was pregnant - were injured in an alleged Russian, Iranian forces or Syrian regime shelling with a cluster missile or a rocket carrying cluster bombs on 'Martyr…
Summary
Published
1 January 2020
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Commerce
(
Market
),
Education
(
Nursery
,
Primary School
)
Civilians reported killed
7–11
Civilians reported injured
12–25
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
,
Iranian Military
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