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The War Department<\/span> delivered its unreleased annual report on civilian casualties to members of Congress on Tuesday, two government officials told The Intercept \u2014 one of whom called the report \u201ca fucking joke.\u201d\u00a0The report found that U.S. attacks likely killed or wounded hundreds of civilians.<\/p>\n The other official deemed the report, which covers allegations of civilian harm stemming from military attacks in Iran, Somalia, Yemen, and the campaign of boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, a \u201ctotal whitewash.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s the latest in a series of recent Pentagon reports that have called attention to U.S. failures to prevent, mitigate, or adequately track civilian harm after self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth gutted civilian harm mitigation and response or CHMR programs.<\/p>\n Shockingly, the Pentagon\u2019s review of its 2025 attacks found that no civilians were killed in the Trump administration\u2019s campaign of boat strikes, according to the officials, despite the fact that the U.S. killed more than 120 civilians<\/a> last year in attacks that experts call extrajudicial killings or outright murder. The Trump administration has asserted repeatedly and without evidence that the boat strike victims, who now number more than 220, were \u201cnarcoterrorists.\u201d In a classified briefing last fall, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Staff said that some of the people killed in the initial September 2, 2025, attack may have been the victims of human trafficking, according to an Intercept investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have absolutely no credibility,\u201d the second official told The Intercept about the boat strike claims, adding that the report was \u201csickening.\u201d<\/p>\n Known as the 1057 report, this year\u2019s accounting of civilian casualties reflects a backlog of incidents from the Trump administration\u2019s strikes against Yemen\u2019s Houthi government in the spring of 2025. The report found that U.S. attacks killed 153 civilians and wounded almost 250 during the campaign of air and naval strikes, codenamed Operation Rough Rider. The second official called these \u201clowball numbers.\u201d At least 238 civilians were killed and 467 injured, according to the\u00a0Yemen Data Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n One attack killed 68 people, the second official said. That attack on an immigrant detention center in Yemen killed and injured dozens of Ethiopian civilians and no combatants and was detailed in a report by Amnesty International shared with The Intercept<\/a> last year.\u00a0At the time, U.S. Central Command said it was still \u201cassessing all reports of civilian harm resulting from operations during that time period.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The 1057 report determined that three incidents \u201clikely\u201d harmed civilians, according to the second official. Another 15 attacks are still under review, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea CENTCOM still has fifteen cases on Yemen to adjudicate doesn\u2019t bode well for the war in Iran,\u201d said the first official. Both officials spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the report.<\/p>\n Under Section 1057 of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon is required to provide Congress and the public with data on civilian harm, mitigation steps, and assessments. The officials said the Pentagon had sent the report to members of the Armed Services Committees.<\/p>\n The report does not cover Trump\u2019s ongoing failed war on Iran, which the United States and Israel launched in February, because it includes only military attacks from 2025. The second government official said that the number of incidents of civilian harm to investigate from the current war with Iran will dwarf the number in Yemen. Reports of civilian harm were recorded every day<\/a> from the beginning of the war on February 28 to the first ceasefire on April 8, according to the U.K.-based air strike monitoring group, Airwars. The World Health organization put the\u00a0death toll<\/a>\u00a0in Iran at 3,375 people \u2014 before the\u00a0ceasefire<\/a>\u00a0fell\u00a0apart<\/a>\u00a0last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n The second official said the backlog would likely carry over several years, referencing the fact that the 10-person civilian harm mitigation team at CENTCOM has been reduced to just one individual. The first official echoed the same concerns. \u201cHow will they get through hundreds of cases for Iran if their one civilian harm person still hasn\u2019t finished Yemen?\u201d they asked.<\/p>\n