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19 Apr, 2025
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Palestinian territories

Airwars wins Overseas Press Club of America award

Airwars’ documentation and investigations into civilian harm in Gaza won a prestigious Overseas Press Club of America award on Thursday. The Kim Wall Award recognised the “best story or series of stories in any medium on international affairs using creative and dynamic digital storytelling techniques.” In a statement the judges, chaired by Mary Rajkumar, Pulitzer-winning […]
4 Mar, 2025
Investigations
Israel, Palestinian territories

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
25 Feb, 2025
Tools, Visualisation
Israel, Palestinian territories

List of identified victims, as published by the Palestinian MoH in Gaza

A searchable list of all named victims in Gaza since October 2023, as published by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza
25 Feb, 2025
Tools, Visualisation
Israel, Palestinian territories

قائمة الضحايا الذين تم تحديد هوياتهم كما نشر من قبل وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية في غزة

قائمة قابلة للبحث تضم أسماء جميع الضحايا في غزة منذ تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2023، وفقًا للبيانات الصادرة عن وزارة الصحة الفلسطينية في القطاع. تقوم منظمة الحروب الجوية (إيرورز) بإعادة نشر هذه القوائم كما
12 Dec, 2024
Policy, Report, Research
Israel, Palestinian territories

Patterns of harm analysis – Gaza, October 2023

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

The Killings They Tweeted

Matching Israeli military strike footage to civilian casualties on the ground to reveal full human cost of 'precise' campaign
24 Jul, 2024
Investigations, Policy
Israel, Palestinian territories

One Name, Two Lists

Cross-referencing open source evidence with Gaza Health Ministry data finds early Ministry death figures largely accurate
10 Jun, 2024
Visualisation
Palestinian territories

Israel and Gaza Casualty Map

Map of more than 1,000 published Airwars assessments of civilian harm in Gaza since 2023
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
26 Feb, 2024
Policy, Research
Palestinian territories

Two weeks under scrutiny: Patterns of harm reported in Gaza following ICJ ruling

Palestinian civilians were killed every day during the two weeks following the International Court of Justice ruling on Gaza, analysis finds
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
31 Oct, 2023
Research
Palestinian territories

Methodology note: Civilian harm from explosive weapons use in Gaza

How we're applying our methodology
16 Oct, 2023
Investigations
Israel, Palestinian territories

Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza?

Investigation with the Financial Times into strike on an escape route
17 May, 2023
Visualisation
Palestinian territories

Reported civilian deaths from Israeli Military strikes in the Gaza Strip, May 2021

Database tracks casualties in Gaza during May 2021 Israeli strikes
24 Nov, 2022
Visualisation
Palestinian territories

Mapping urban warfare: Gaza 2021

Visualising Gaza in the 11 day conflict in May 2021
27 Sep, 2022
Visualisation
Palestinian territories

Civilian Casualties in Gaza May 2021

Mapping civilian casualties during the May 2021 war
27 Sep, 2022
Visualisation
Palestinian territories

Israeli Military in the Gaza Strip May 2021 Casualty Map

Mapping instances of civilian harm
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