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airwars.org ↗
10 Dec, 2025
Investigations

Surviving the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Short film visualising the militarisation of humanitarian aid to reveal its deadly implications for the future
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4 Mar, 2025
Investigations

A Long Return

A short film juxtaposing two videos along the same Gaza road. Taken five years apart, in 2020 and 2025, the footage is synchronised to illustrate the devastating impact of Gaza war
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12 Dec, 2024
Policy, Report, Research

Patterns of harm analysis – Gaza, October 2023

Analysis finds first month of Gaza bombing campaign among the most intense and destructive in modern warfare
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9 Oct, 2024
Investigations, Policy

The Killings They Tweeted

Matching Israeli military strike footage to civilian casualties on the ground to reveal full human cost of 'precise' campaign
A screenshot from The Times' article 'Three generations killed within days: why whole families are dying in Gaza'
1 Apr, 2024
Investigations
Israel, Palestinian territories

Three generations killed within days: why whole families are dying in Gaza

Together with The Sunday Times, Airwars collated the details of more than 150 families that have lost multiple members in the Israel-Gaza war
7 Dec, 2023
Investigations
Israel, Lebanon

Killed in a press vest – evidence of Israeli responsibility for attack on journalists in Lebanon

What struck the journalists, where was it fired from, and were there any apparent military targets nearby?
Palestinians inspect the ruins of Watan Tower destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza city, on October 8, 2023 (Wafa).
21 Nov, 2023
Investigations, Policy
Israel, Palestinian territories

No safe place – tracking civilian harm in southern Gaza

Tracking civilians killed in Gaza's designated 'safe zones' and how supposed havens became sites of fatal strikes
10 May, 2022
Update
Iraq, Israel, Libya, Pakistan, Palestinian territories, Syria, Türkiye, Yemen

Civilian harm fell in 2021, Airwars annual report finds

Civilian harm dropped across most of the major conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in 2021, Airwars’ annual report has found. The number of allegations of civilians killed by nearly all belligerents monitored by Airwars fell in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, though there was an escalation in the Israel-Palestinian conflict which […]
6 May, 2022
Update
Israel, Palestinian territories

Airwars/Guardian win Amnesty Media Award

Airwars and The Guardian have won a prestigious Amnesty Media Award for their joint investigation into Israel’s striking of residential towers in Gaza. The article, Countdown to the Airstrike, won in the Best Use of Digital Media category. The article tells the story of the destruction a single tower in Gaza through their memories of […]
7 Apr, 2022
Policy
Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Palestinian territories, Somalia, Syria, Ukraine, Yemen

Five takeaways from the first day of EWIPA negotiations

The shadow of the Ukraine conflict loomed large over the first day of the informal UN-backed consultations on a political declaration on restricting the use of wide area effect explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA), currently underway in Geneva. Delegates from more than 65 nations have gathered to fine tune the language of the political […]
10 Dec, 2021
Investigations
Israel, Palestinian territories, Syria

Gaza and Syria: A Tale of Two Israeli Air Wars

New Airwars research finds that 10 times more civilians were killed in 11 days of Israel’s bombing of Gaza than in the entirety of its 8-year campaign in Syria
9 Dec, 2021
Policy, Report
Israel, Palestinian territories, Syria

Israeli strikes on Gaza in May killed up to ten times as many civilians as lengthy Syria campaign, Airwars finds

'Why did they bomb us?' report finds major difference in military tactics, and outcomes for civilians