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The report highlights that the UK maintains a seemingly
ineffective approach to civilian harm tracking; fails to investigate civilian harm consistently; and has introduced unprecedented legislation to severely restrict civilians’ access to response-and accountability mechanisms.
A new report by @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social finds the UK is ill-prepared to protect civilians from harm during future UK military operations.
Airwars’ Policy Specialist lays out noticeable gaps in the UK approach to tracking, mitigating, & responding to such harm.
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"We sent the footage to A.I. experts who confirmed the film was manipulated. The channel had taken the original footage - filmed in his Russian office six years earlier - and put fake audio on top, with his lips artificially altered to match the script."
russia-eu-cars.airwars.org
Stolen identities, paid actors, and AI fakes - inside the digital hunt to expose the fraudsters skirting EU sanctions
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3/ While the Trump administration argues the strikes are justified to stop "narco-terrorism," the UN has said they violate international law.
Airwars will update the page throughout the campaign, providing a resource for those researching the conflict.
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2/ The page contains both incidents fully researched by Airwars' civilian harm team and disclosed strikes still under assessment.
The chart at the top of the page allows users to navigate through the campaign and select individual incidents to view in greater detail.
🧵NEW: Airwars has published an interactive tool tracking all publicly declared U.S. strikes targeting small boats in the Caribbean & Pacific.
This resource aims to aid public understanding & enhance transparency surrounding those killed in the campaign.
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Our new briefing outlines the transparency of 7 coalition members on civilian harm during Operation Inherent Resolve.
It highlights how changing political interests and budget cuts, particularly in the US, threatens the progress that has been made.
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6/ Transparency alone isn’t enough to address civilian harm — but it’s a crucial first step.
In our briefing, we urge all states that took part in OIR to strengthen how they track, investigate, and report civilian harm, while laying out concrete recommendations.
5/ Meanwhile many of the states analysed, including the UK and France, have little transparency on civilian harm and maintain they have killed almost no civilians during OIR, despite substantial evidence of such harm occurring.
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4/ The Trump administration's recent campaign in Yemen highlights how changing priorities can adversely affect progress. Airwars found that more Yemeni civilians were killed in 52 days of strikes than in the prior 23 years combined.
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3/ Some countries have made significant improvements to internal transparency mechanisms on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response (CHMR); particularly the Netherlands and US. Yet in the latter, changing political interests and budget cuts are threatening such reforms.
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2/ This report is part of Airwars' project the Civilian Protection Monitor, which seeks to compare the policies and practices of different states on the protection of civilians
civilianprotectionmonitor.org
🧵A decade after the start of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) against ISIS, civilians harmed continue to suffer the consequences, often with little acknowledgement.
Our new briefing outlines the transparency of 7 OIR coalition members on civilian harm.
civilianprotectionmonitor.org/general/civi...
Our visual guide to Shahed-131 & -136 'drones' is now available in Ukrainian!
As part of an effort to expand accessibility to our work,
Bomb Techs Without Borders has translated the page to Ukrainian, aiding native speakers in understanding how these munitions function.
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4/ A week later, the Musa Bin Nusair School in Gaza City was struck, reportedly killing 11 civilians. Locals claimed a “suicide drone” had hit the school, however debris at the scene matched this unidentified munition.
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3/ Two months later, Israel struck Nasser Hospital again, reportedly killing three people, including Palestinian journalist Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Eslayeh. Munition remnants similar to those of the March strike appeared at the scene.
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2/ On the evening of 23 March, the IDF declared it struck the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. At least five civilians were reported killed and dozens wounded. In the rubble, the first publicly documented debris of the new munition in Gaza was identified.
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1/ Since March 2025 Airwars has documented a number of alleged civilian harm incidents in Gaza in which a previously unknown munition was used by Israeli forces. Dozens of civilian casualties were reported.
We have so far published three of these cases:
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3/ This archive was recently used in a new investigative report by The White Helmets detailing double-tap attacks on White Helmets volunteers throughout the ten year war.
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2/ In total Airwars researchers reviewed 60,000 open sources, documenting 4931 incidents of civilian harm, in which as many as 25,256 civilians were killed.
You can view all of these incidents here:
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1/ Ten years after Russia first intervened in Syria, Airwars has published the final of nearly 5,000 incidents of civilian harm from Russian military strikes in the country, bringing to an end the largest documentation campaign in the organisation’s history.
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6/ Airwars has a multi-stage methodology to review each monitored incident, in order to produce the published incidents on our website.
We continue to monitor civilian harm incidents all over Gaza, including at aid sites.
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5/ On June 10th, at least seven people, including a woman and two children, were killed and dozens injured when Israeli forces allegedly opened fire on people waiting to receive aid near a GHF distribution site near Wadi Gaza Bridge, in central Gaza.
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4/ On June 1st, Airwars documented one of the largest civilian harm incidents near aid distribution sites, with at least 25 civilians killed, including three women, by alleged Israeli action near the GHF aid distribution point in Mawasi, Rafah.
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3/ Three days later on May 31st, at least five men and one child were killed, and others injured, when Israeli forces allegedly opened fire on a crowd of people near Al-Alam roundabout while attempting to reach a nearby GHF aid site.
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2/ On May 28th Airwars documented at least six Palestinian civilians, including three children, killed and two others injured when Israeli forces allegedly opened fire on people travelling to a GHF aid distribution site in the Moraj area, north of Rafah.
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1/ Since the first Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site opened on May 27, Airwars has documented more than 200 allegations of civilian harm in the vicinity of aid sites.
So far, we’ve published 17 of these cases:
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2/ The piece details our prognosis for civilian protection based on the results of our findings for the Civilian Protection Monitor, a joint tool to assess state approaches launched by Airwars and PAX earlier this year
civilianprotectionmonitor.org
1/ “The disconnect between stated values and actual systems represents not just a missed opportunity, but an ethical and strategic liability.”
New Just Security piece by Airwars and @paxforpeace.nl on state commitments to civilian protection
www.justsecurity.org/118838/civil...
