This reportedly led to large numbers of casualties among the civilian population.

The majority of those casualties were civilians.

Ninety percent of modern war casualties are civilians.

A large number of the reported casualties were civilians.

They have also been involved in ethnic clashes, which have resulted in civilian casualties.

Stressing the need to prevent further civilian casualties,

Civilian casualties of the Jumayjimah massacre Three killed.

Civilian casualties now constitute a staggering 90 per cent.

Army sources revealed that, between 1990 and 1997, 480 people had been killed or injured, including 134 dead and 249 injured civilians.

In the Gaza Strip, 482 Palestinian civilians had been killed, among them 130 children (72 per cent of the total number of casualties), while in the West Bank, 185 civilians lost their lives, 28 per cent of them children.

The fighting continued for a number of days and resulted in an undetermined number of casualties, which included civilians.

Today, up to 90 per cent of conflict casualties around the world are civilians, a large and increasing number of these are children and women.

I repeat, we did not target civilians intentionally although unfortunately some were caught in the cross fire.

Violence took its toll on Palestinian civilians as well as on Israelis.

Civilians continue to pay a heavy toll in the various conflict situations around the world.

While the number of attacks during the latter half of the reporting period has been lower than average, the lethal character of these attacks has increased, with large numbers of casualties, especially among civilians.

In the First World War, civilians accounted for some 5 per cent of casualties.

4. Expresses grave concern at the firing of rockets against Israeli civilian areas resulting in loss of life and injury

The significant rise in insurgent attacks in April and May has taken a particularly heavy toll on civilians.

Civilian casualties of the Suhmur massacre Nine killed and two injured, all of them children, women or elderly persons

The civilian casualties from this Israeli attack amounted to 1,908 killed and 31,915 injured, with statistics confirming that 15 per cent of all victims were children under 15.

The conflict in Iraq continues to take a heavy toll, including among civilians.

I continue to be gravely concerned about the increasing number of civilian casualties and serious injuries.

Civilian casualties of the Nabatiyah massacre 13 killed and two injured, all of them children, women or elderly persons

Several casualties were reported among the population and the police.

4. Expresses grave concern at the use of suicide bombing attacks against Israeli civilians resulting in extensive loss of life and injury

2. Condemns acts of violence, especially the excessive use of force against Palestinian civilians, resulting in injury and loss of human life

The use of these weapons in armed conflicts over the last 30 years has left a consistent trail of civilian casualties.

Expressing grave concern about the extrajudicial executions and the use of force by Israel against the Palestinian civil population, inflicting heavy casualties, and the continued targeting of schoolchildren, which led to loss of lives and fatal injuries,

Expressing grave concern about the extrajudicial executions and the use of force by Israel against the Palestinian civil population, inflicting heavy casualties, and the continued targeting of schoolchildren, which led to loss of lives and fatal injuries,

On 25 February, four civilians and a soldier died, and ten other civilians were wounded, in another rebel attack on the same commune.

I'll look to you to keep casualties down.

Civilian casualties were heavy in consequence of the use of internationally proscribed incendiary and fragmentation bombs in the bombings of residential quarters of the Tyre region.

Gravely concerned also about the use of suicide bombing attacks against Israeli civilians resulting in extensive loss of life and injury,

Civilians once again bore the brunt of the casualties during the reporting period, as witnessed in a number of mass casualty attacks.

11. Deplores the civilian casualties inflicted by the indiscriminate use of landmines, and calls upon all Afghan parties to desist from such use

In the course of seven days, 358 villages in southern Lebanon came under attack, 1,168 people were killed and thousands injured.

Concerned about continuing deliberate and indiscriminate aerial bombardments by the Government of the Sudan of civilian targets in southern Sudan, in clear violation of international humanitarian law, which have added to the suffering of the civilian population and resulted in casualties to civilians, including relief workers involved in Operation Lifeline Sudan and with international private voluntary agencies,

As a result of this operation, the April understanding was worked out to provide for the establishment of a monitoring group with a view to ensuring the protection of civilians by both sides and the avoidance of civilian casualties.

According to a study, civilian casualties made up just 5 per cent of all casualties during the First World War, while in the Second World War that number increased to 50 per cent.

4. Expresses grave concern at the use of suicide bombing attacks against Israeli civilians resulting in extensive loss of life and injury

Expresses grave concern at the use of suicide bombing attacks against Israeli civilians resulting in extensive loss of life and injury

Casualties.

LRA has perpetrated several vicious attacks on villages and, although exact figures are not available, is believed to have killed and injured dozens of civilians over the reporting period.

1. Strongly condemns the indiscriminate firing by the Indian army at the innocent civilian population residing inside Azad Jammu and Kashmir, which has resulted in a large number of civilian casualties