#civilian-casualties

#civilian-casualties

As night fell over southern Colombia, and a group of children began their weekly Tuesday football match, a drone appeared overhead. The children looked up, and the drone dropped a grenade, its blast killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring 12 more civilians. The child's death, in southern Cauca in 2024, marked the first known time a person in the country had been killed in a weaponised drone attack. He would not be the last.

Drone strikes by Mali's army have killed at least 10 civilians as they prepared to celebrate a wedding in the central region of San in another escalation of the conflict since armed groups launched a widespread coordinated assault late last month.

I am shocked by reports that Nigerian army airstrikes on a market in Zamfara state killed at least 100 civilians on 10 May and injured many more, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement on Wednesday.

Three Israeli drone strikes on cars on a major highway linking Beirut to southern Lebanon have killed at least eight people, including two children, Lebanon's Ministry of Health reported. A photograph of the bombed cars shared by Lebanon's National News Agency following the attacks on Wednesday in the Jiyeh area, some 20km (12 miles) south of the Lebanese capital, showed the vehicles severely damaged, their exteriors charred and torn apart.

Israel's military has killed six people in an air raid on a house in southern Lebanon, the latest violation of a United States-brokered truce that has only ever existed on paper. The Israeli attack on Monday night targeted a house in the Kfar Dounin municipality, some 100km (60 miles) south of Beirut, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said. Seven wounded were brought to hospitals in the coastal city of Tyre, the agency added.

Israel's military campaign in Lebanon has reignited a debate over civilian casualties, ceasefire violations, and the limits of self-defence.

Taliban deputy spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat stated that the strikes hit the city of Asadabad and surrounding districts, resulting in at least seven deaths and over 80 injuries, including many students and professors from the university.

Faqiri rushed to the rehabilitation center after the airstrike, but could not find his brother among the survivors. He spent the next two days visiting hospitals in Kabul, but there was no sign of Qais.

"I saw someone carrying a young girl. When I went inside the salon, a woman grabbed my shoulder and said her sister was inside."