The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the extrajudicial killing of at least 14 civilians, including four children and two women (adult females), on Saturday, May 10, 2025, and Sunday May 11, 2025, across Syria. Distributed by the parties responsible as follows:
Shot by unidentified gunmen: 10 civilians, including a woman and a child.
Explosion of a landmine: Four civilians (3 children and a woman).
SNHR laments the continued incidents of extrajudicial killings. There is an urgent need to make every effort to ensure the protection of civilian lives. This is particularly important in light of the current political transformations and the entry into a transitional phase that is expected to focus on promoting stability and the rule of law.
SNHR believes that the repeated civilian casualties point to ongoing gaps in protection and accountability systems, which underlines the urgent need to strengthen institutions that guarantee respect for fundamental rights in accordance with international human rights law.
In this context, SNHR stresses the importance of adhering to the principle of distinguishing between civilians and combatants and the necessity of taking all possible measures to ensure the safety of individuals and their property.
SNHR also calls for sustained efforts to prevent the recurrence of the grave violations experienced by Syrians throughout the years of internal conflict, through legal and institutional mechanisms that respect human dignity, contribute to rebuilding societal trust, and promote justice, while also prevent the recurrence of grave violations from which Syrians have suffered for too long.
Background
For the past 14 years, SNHR been documenting violations against civilians in Syria on a daily basis, in line with a rigorous methodology based on international documentation standards. This enabled the group to build and sustain a database for serious human rights violations, including killings. The massive volume of grave human rights violations, as attested by SNHR’s database, suggests that such violations occurred in a context of complete impunity, with virtually no accountability.
