“The incident is the most violent direct attack against innocent civilians this year,” Kallon said.

‘Targeted executions’ Attackers killed at least 100 civilians on January 2 in raids on two villages in

After overcoming Israeli soldiers on the border, they massacred Israeli civilians. groups fired thousands of rockets at Israeli towns and cities, damaging homes and killing and injuring civilians Hundreds are civilians. Deliberately killing civilians is a war crime, as is hostage-taking. No matter what the other side does, no one has the right to target civilians. © 2023 Human Rights Watch

on villagers during a weekend raid in the country’s southwest, killing up to nine people, including civilians An army spokesman denied there were civilian casualties during the incident on Sunday in the village unconventional conflict,” said human rights lawyer Agbor Balla, who said he had confirmed at least eight deaths “Civilians were killed. It was done by the military. violence in Mautu comes as three soldiers face trial for their alleged involvement in the killing of 21 civilians

By Martin Chulov Watchdog report follows years-long investigation into strike that killed 43 civilians poison gas attack that killed 43 people in a suburb of Damascus in 2018, leaving victims choking to death concentrations of chlorine, at least one of which dispersed its deadly payload into a ground floor room where civilians chlorine and dropped from helicopters had been a frequent fixture at the peak of the conflict, but the death

At least 20 soldiers and more than 40 civilians have been killed, and hundreds injured in twin attacks in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, residents and a civilian task force fighter said. The sources said hundreds of civilians were injured in the crossfire, overwhelming the local hospital Fighters also entered Nganzai at about the same time on Saturday, according to two residents and one Civilian

Reuters] (Reuters) Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said federal troops had not killed a single civilian , more than 43,000 have fled to neighbouring Sudan, and there are reports of armed groups attacking civilians There was no immediate response from the TPLF, which had accused the government of targeting civilians

In Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Defence Forces refuse  to distinguish civilians from enemy The IDF’s rules of engagement tolerate twenty civilian deaths   for the death of every Hamas combatant It is the deadliest civilian to combatant ratio in any war since 1945. Israel has blocked   eighty percent   of food and medicine  for civilians.

More than 80 civilians, including children as young as two years old, have been killed in the latest the coordination and measures, including at the district level, to prevent similar attacks against civilians

Since Myanmar’s army — which has a long history of atrocities against civilians — seized power two years “It also reflects a broader strategy based on terrorizing the resistance’s civilian support base — which Its human rights minister, Aung Myo Min, said the victims were all civilians and called the killings “They are part of the military junta’s systematic, widespread and coordinated attacks against the civilian For soldiers to massacre monks and other civilians in a monastery is a sign of how far the junta is willing

The mission said it documented 72 civilian deaths between Feb. 17 and April 7 in Unity State’s Leer county “I am strongly appalled by these horrific attacks on civilians in Leer,” Nicholas Haysom, special representative

file photo) Islamist militants have attacked a river boat in north-eastern Mali, killing at least 49 civilians