Monthly death toll | 238 civilians among 544 people killed in October 2023
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 544 people in October 2023. The fatalities were distributed as follows:
Civilian death toll: 238 persons, including 43 children under the age of 18 and 61 women over the age of 18, and they were as follows:
- Two civilians died under torture in regime prisons.
- 18 civilians, including two children, were killed in infightings and indiscriminate gunfire.
- A man and a woman were killed by jihadists.
- Eight civilians, including three women and three children, were killed by opposition factions.
- One civilian was killed in unknown circumstances.
- Four civilians, including three children, were killed in explosions of old ordnance.
- 75 civilians, including 27 children and ten women, were killed in bombardment and gunfire by regime forces.
- 37 civilians, including four women, were murdered.
- Eight civilians, including five women and two children, were killed in Russian airstrikes.
- Six civilians were killed by ISIS members.
- Two civilians were killed in Israeli strikes.
- Seven civilians, including a woman and three children, were killed in Turkish bombardment.
- 59 civilians, including 37 women and three children, were killed by landmine and IED explosions.
- Four civilians were shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
- Three civilians were killed by SDF.
Regime forces: 148
ISIS: 3
Syrian fighters of Islamist factions, rebel factions and other movements and organisations: 35
Syrian members of Popular Committees, the National Defence Forces and regime-backed militias: 15
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and affiliated military formations: 73
Kurdish fighters: 1
Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen: 11
Others: 7
Lebanese Hezbollah: 1
Russian soldiers: 4
Turkish soldiers: 8
We, at the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, call on the international community once again to work hard to stop the bloodshed in Syria. The people of Syria have been facing tyranny and oppression in their noble endeavour and cause to obtain justice, democracy, freedom and equality.
The Syrian Observatory renews its commitment to continue monitoring and documenting all the developments on the ground in Syria including, the massacres, violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Syrian people, as well as publishing all relevant statistics and causalities of such heinous acts, and hope to help all the ongoing efforts of bringing the perpetrators to special international courts, so that they do not escape justice for the crimes they committed against the people of Syria.
