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Civilians meaning
plural of civilian
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These attacks resulted in 14 people killed (of which six were civilians and eight were policemen), 37 people wounded (two UN observers, three civilians and 34 policemen) and five civilians kidnapped.
At least 130 Hezbollah operatives and some 20 civilians have been killed in Lebanon in attacks by Israel in response to rocket fire, anti-tank missile fire and suicide drone attacks against Israeli civilians and military posts by Hezbollah.
Hamas killed 1,200 Israeli civilians in a cross-border attack Oct. 7 that focused on murdering and kidnapping civilians.
Human Rights Watch recorded the killing of at least 40 civilians, including a woman, and injuries to 14 civilians, including 5 women and 4 children.
If these had been civilians, the orcs would be screaming about 'Ukraine targeting civilians'.
It was not clear if the injured were civilians or soldiers, but Israel has ordered civilians to evacuate the area near the border with Lebanon.
Once civilians are seen as beneficiaries on whose behalf war is waged, then the focus is on those civilians who consent to fight, die, and survive the invasion.
The fighting has killed more than 100 people in Lebanon, including more than a dozen civilians – three of them journalists – and 12 people on the Israeli side, including four civilians.
The resolution deplored “all attacks against civilians and civilian objects, as well as all violence and hostilities against civilians, and all acts of terrorism” and called for the unconditional release of hostages.
We are not killing civilians here, we have no intention to kill any civilians, we are directing our guns at the soldiers and settlers.
It is not the same as the situation Israel is in, where one side is a state bound by international law and the other side is a terrorist army hiding behind civilians and intentionally drawing fire toward civilians as a tactic of war.
It is undeniable that the plight of Gaza civilians is dire, with Israel not challenging claims that tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and many hundreds of thousands displaced.
The Israeli military said it had tried to limit harm to civilians and had "facilitated the secure evacuation of civilians, patients and medical personnel prior to the operation," but gave no details.
There are many human rights issues that need to be resolved, such as the forcible transfer of civilians including children to Russia, the arbitrary and unlawful detention of Ukrainian civilians, and accountability for war crimes.
When the ground offensive began, the army statement said it warned civilians about military actions in the area, claiming that a route would be opened to allow uninvolved civilians to be evacuated.
When war is fought among civilians, civilians are killed.
As of October 28, in result of rocket shelling by Armenian forces 90 civilians were killed, including women, children and elderly, and more than 380 civilians have been hospitalized.
High-level open meeting on the protection of civilians, which will discuss Secretary-General Guterres' annual report on the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
In the operation, though the civilians were rescued, while exiting the team came under heavy fire in an open compound the civilians were rescued.
MONUSCO soldiers themselves have been frequently accused of sexually assaulting civilians, while also not preventing the exploitation of miners at the hands of multinational corporations or effectively protecting civilians from rebel attacks.