“Total Whitewash”: New Pentagon Report Claims U.S. Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes
Government officials told The Intercept the War Department’s latest civilian casualty report was “sickening” and a “joke.” The post “Total Whitewash”: New Pentagon Report Claims U.S. Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes appeared first on The Intercept .
A Pentagon report released to Congress on Tuesday claims the United States killed no civilians in its campaign of boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. The 1057 report, referring to Section 1057 of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, found U.S. attacks likely killed or wounded hundreds of civilians in Iran, Somalia, and Yemen.
The report marked a "total whitewash" according to government officials, who deemed the findings a "fucking joke." The 2025 report determined three incidents "likely" harmed civilians, while 15 are still under review. The Pentagon has not yet completed an investigation into the March 2, 2025, attack on a Yemeni immigrant detention center, which Amnesty International estimated killed and injured dozens of Ethiopian civilians.
The report also noted the backlog of cases from the Trump administration's strikes against Yemen's Houthi government in the spring of 2025, with the Yemen Data Project estimating 238 civilians killed and 467 injured in those attacks. The report comes as the Pentagon continues to slash measures to prevent civilian casualties, including the firing of the military's top lawyers who advise leaders on international laws of armed conflict.
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