Repeat Attacks on Infrastructure – Turkey’s October 2024 Airstrike Campaign
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Open in new tab On the night of October 23rd, 2024, Turkey began a multi-day airstrike campaign in the region of North and East Syria (NES) that targeted essential civilian infrastructure, cutting electricity, fuel, and water supplies, for an estimated 1.05 million people. As per RIC records, Turkey carried out 68 airstrikes using drones and warplanes. Ankara’s targets included oil fields, electricity plants, medical facilities, food production factories, and industrial sites, as well as sites of NES’ Internal Security Forces (Asayish). Turkey hit infrastructure that had already been damaged by previous Turkish airstrike campaigns in January 2024, December 2023, October 2023 and November 2022. In conjunction with these airstrikes, Turkey intensified its usual heavy weapons strikes on villages near the Turkish-Syrian border and near the Turkish-occupied areas of NES.
This report outlines Turkey’s latest airstrike campaign, describes the places hit, assesses the impact on civilians and on the region of NES, examines the legal ramifications within international humanitarian law, and documents coverage on the ground.
Turkey’s attacks killed 17 people, including 13 civilians, and injured 66, including 58 civilians. The material damages were catastrophic, leaving some equipment vital for the civilian population irreparable. With winter approaching in NES, these attacks cut electricity, fuel, heat and water from populations across the region.
