#civilian-casualties

#civilian-casualties

Deliberately attacking civilians or civilian objects amounts to a war crime. International humanitarian law demands distinction between military targets and civilians and civilian objects and insists on feasible precautions being taken to protect civilians. In addition, international law provides for specific protections for healthcare workers as well as people at heightened risk, such as the elderly, women and displaced people.

Overnight Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least four people, according to Lebanese state media and the government. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said on Sunday Israeli forces struck an apartment in a residential building in a northern district of the coastal city of Sidon, killing one person and causing a fire. To the southeast of Sidon, in the village of al-Qatrani, three people were killed in another Israeli attack, according to Lebanon's Ministry of Health.

Afghan Taliban launched few rudimentary drones to harass the brave people of Pakistan. The drones... did not reach their intended targets. These attacks were aimed at inducing fear in the public and remind us of the terrorist mindset which drives the Afghan Taliban.

Israeli strike early on Friday hit a car in Jnah, a coastal neighbourhood in southwestern Beirut, and killed one person, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said. An Israeli strike also hit an apartment in the Nabaa neighborhood, home to a sizable Armenian community, leaving it engulfed in flames, with no casualties immediately reported. It was the first time this area has been struck in this conflict or during the 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel.

A preliminary investigation into the airstrike on a girls' elementary school in Iran that killed at least 175 people, mostly children, has found that the U.S. likely created target coordinates for the strike using outdated military maps. The U.S. military has yet to formally state that the U.S. was directly involved in the massacre.

Four members of a nomad family, including one woman and one man, as well as two children—one girl and one boy—were killed and three other children were wounded, he wrote on X. The provincial governor's office gave the same death toll.

Evidence is building that the strike may be the result of US forces relying on outdated intelligence, according to two US officials familiar with the matter, though they cautioned that the assessment remains preliminary. The officials, who spoke to RFE/RL on March 11 on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said they could not confirm or deny reports -- which have appeared in The New York Times and Reuters, among other media outlets -- on the faulty intelligence, but they added that early findings point in a similar direction.

Within days, multiple independent analyses - including Bellingcat, CNN, and CBS News - found that the weapon used was a Tomahawk cruise missile. Only the United States in this conflict possessed Tomahawk missiles. Israel was not operating in the area. A preliminary U.S. assessment leaked to CBS News concluded the U.S. was "likely responsible", possibly due to outdated intelligence misidentifying the area as an IRGC military site.

According to the report, the inquiry which has yet to be completed has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Iran has accused the U.S. and Israel of killing more than 1,300 civilians and striking over 10,000 civilian sites during the first 12 days of the war. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described Tuesday as the "most intense day" of U.S. attacks on Iran to date.

You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Even your Defense Secretary wouldn't say that, when he was asked, standing over your shoulder, on your plane, on Saturday. Why are you the only person saying this?

I think the war is very complete, pretty much. If you look, they have nothing left. There's nothing left in a military sense. The U.S. has wiped out Iran's military capabilities, saying the country now has 'no navy, no communications' and 'no air force.' He also claimed the U.S. is 'very far' ahead of the four to five week estimate he's given for the war.

On September 20, 2025, at around 7 a.m., dozens of children ran through the Simon Pele neighborhood in northern Port-au-Prince. They played among the colorful alleyways controlled for years by the gang of the same name waiting for Albert Steevenson, alias Djouma, to hand out toys as part of his birthday celebration. But quadcopter drones from an official operation, armed with explosives, were also flying through the alleyways with a clear objective: to kill the elusive Haitian gang leader.

Well, I haven't seen it, Trump replied. And I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is used by, you know, is sold and used by other countries. You know that. And whether it's Iran who also has some Tomahawks. They wish they had more, but whether it's Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk, a Tomahawk is very generic.