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The air strikes Human Rights Watch documented killed at least 152 civilians. According to a network of local Syrian activists, air strikes have killed more than 4,300 civilians across Syria since July 2012. </div><div class="more"><a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/10/syria-aerial-attacks-strike-civilians">Read the Press Release</a></div><div class="more"><a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/04/11/death-skies">Read the Report</a><br> ISBN: 978-1-62313-0039</div> </div> </div> <div id="content-blocks"> <div id="block-tic-report_download" class="block"> <h6 class="block-title">Get the Report</h6> <div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/syria0413webwcover_1.pdf">Download the full report</a> <span class="meta">(PDF, 661.07 KB)</span></li> <li class="last last"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130501031316/http://www.kintera.org/site/apps/ka/ec/product.asp?c=dhLOK6PGLoF&b=3444291&en=9eLCJIOqE7JGJOOjFdINLXMwGbJGJKOsEjKTK3OIG&ProductID=1786962">Purchase the report in print</a></li> </ul></div> </div> <div id="block-xslt_book-1" class="block"> <h6 class="block-title"></h6> <div class="item-list"><ul class="xslt-book"> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/1">Death from the Skies</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/2">Summary</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/3">Methodology</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/4">I. Background: From Protests to Armed Conflict</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/5">II. Applicable International Humanitarian Law</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/6">III. Deliberate Attacks on Bakeries</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/7">IV. Attacks on Hospitals</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/8">V. Cluster Bomb Attacks</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/9">VI. Other Unlawful Air Strikes</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20130501031316/http://www.hrw.org/node/114726/section/10">VII. 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