Tag: Children targets
Mami Rogha (N. Waziristan) School Massacre – Jun 2007
What Happened? 19 June 2007: Multiple U.S. drone missiles struck a school and adjoining homes in the Mami Rogha area of North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan. The attack is reported to have killed 34+ people. A prominent local journalist, Rahimullah Yousafzai, was cited by the Washington Post as an eyewitness to the attack. Yousafzai testified…
Zarghar Khel (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – May 2007
What Happened? 22 May 2007: A leaked U.S. intelligence document in 2013 reported of a 2007 drone attack that struck an alleged ‘military training camp’ in the Zargar Khel area of North Waziristan. While the CIA claimed that the attack had killed militants, local eyewitnesses at the time disputed that those killed were locals and…
Zamozola Shaktoi (S. Waziristan) Air Strike – Jan 2007
What Happened? 16 January 2007: A U.S. drone missile struck a home in the Zamozola area of Shaktoi in South Waziristan. The drone attack killed at least 7 civilians and 1 child. Eyewitness testimony shows that those killed were local woodcutters. An eyewitness spoke to the Pakistani The News shortly after the attack: “I spoke…
Saidgi (N. Waziristan) Helicopter Raid – Jan 2006
What Happened? 06 January 2006: A pair of U.S. gunships attacked a home in Saidgi Area of Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal agency. At least 2 children and 2 women are reported to have been killed in this raid. Three alleged militants were also killed in this attack. An eyewitness reported having seen several U.S. soldiers,…
Khaisori (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Dec 2005
What Happened? 01 December 2005: A U.S. drone-launched hellfire missile struck a house in the North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas. The attack killed at least two children and one woman, along with Abu Hamza Rabia and two men who were alleged by the CIA to be militants. This was the second…
Musakki (N. Waziristan) Drone Attack – Nov 2005
What Happened? 05 November 2005: A U.S. drone missile struck the house of a Abu Hamza Rabia in the Musakki area (outside Mir Ali) in North Waziristan Agency of Pakistan. Rabia was an Al-Qaeda leader of Egyptian origin, widely considered to be Al-Qaeda’s third-in-command. Rabia was only injured in this attack, but his wife and…
Ghozgarhi Madrassa (Kurram Agency) Drone Attack – Oct 2017
Date: 16/10/2017 Location: Kurram Agency, FATA, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 14+ killed What Happened? 16 October 2017: Multiple U.S. drone missiles struck a reported seminary in the Ghozgarhi area of Lower Kurram Agency killed at least 14 people, while a local eyewitness reports at least 17 deaths. The local administration procured 20 coffins from…
Damodola Strike (Bajaur Agency) – Jan 2006
Date: 15/01/2006 Location: Bajaur Agency, FATA, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 18+ killed, mostly women and children What Happened? 15 January 2006: A US drone missile struck the Damodola village in Bajaur Agency (Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas), killing at least 18 people. Local media confirmed that five women and four children were among the…
Chenagai School Strike (Bajaur Agency) – Oct 2006
Date: 30/10/2006 Location: Chenagai, Bajaur Agency, Pakistan Perpetrators: United States Victims: 80+ killed, mostly children What Happened? 30 October 2006: Missiles fired from MQ-1 Predator drones struck a madrassa in the Chenagai district of Bajaur Agency (then-Federally administered by Islamabad). The massacre happened in the early hours of the morning, when the school was about…
Al-Khisas Raid – Dec 1947
Date: 18/12/1947 Location: Kibbutz HaGoshrim, Northern District Perpetrators: Haganah Victims: 12 killed (5 children), 5 injured What Happened? 18 December 1947: The Yiftach Brigade of the Israeli Haganah raided the village of al-Khisas in the Safad Subdistrict in Mandatory Palestine. The attack happened at night, involving machine guns and grenades thrown into Palestinian homes. Twelve…