Portal:Current events/2024 September 11

September 11, 2024 (2024-09-11) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • September 2024 Al-Jawni School attack
      • Eighteen people, including six UNRWA staffers, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on a school in central Gaza. (Reuters)
    • An Israeli Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Rafah during a mission to evacuate an injured combat engineer, killing two personnel on board. (Times of Israel)
  • 2024 Israeli military operation in the West Bank
    • At least six Palestinians are killed by an Israeli drone strike on Tubas in the West Bank. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion
    • Russian forces reportedly recapture 10 settlements in Kursk Oblast. (Anadolu Agency)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United Kingdom reportedly approves the use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike targets inside Russian territory. (The Kyiv Independent)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • One Hezbollah militant is killed and one militant and two civilians are injured in Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Haitian crisis (2018–present)
  • A new wave of shootouts erupts in Haiti over a football match leaving at least one gang leader dead. Reports admit being unable to determine the total death toll. (AP)

Business and economy

• Hundreds of workers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, go on strike to protest against a planned deal to lease the airport to the Indian conglomerate Adani Group for 30 years. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States, as a Category 2 hurricane. (National Hurricane Center)
  • The National Weather Service issues a flash flood emergency for New Orleans and municipalities west of it, due to the eye wall of Hurricane Francine stalling over the region. (NBC News)
• 2024 Nigeria floods
  • Due to the Alau Dam collapse by heavy floods more than 80% of the animals in the Sanda Kyarimi Park Zoo in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria have been killed. (Reuters)
• 2024 Pacific typhoon season
  • The death toll from Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam increases to 179 people, with 145 others still missing. The majority of the victims were killed by floods and landslides in Lào Cai, Yên Bái, and Cao Bằng provinces. (AP) (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• Malaysian police rescue 400 minors suspected of being sexually abused at Islamic charity homes linked to Al-Arqam. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Victoria Police arrest 39 people and fire stun grenades, rubber bullets, and pepper spray at anti-war and pro-Palestinian protestors picketing outside a military weapons expo in Melbourne, Australia. (Al Jazeera)
• Women's rights in Afghanistan
  • An All Afghan Women's Summit is held in Tirana, Albania, where more than 130 Afghan women gathered to protest the crackdown on women's rights by the Taliban. (The Guardian)

Science and technology

• Spaceflight
  • Following the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, there were a record 19 people in outer space: the three astronauts on the MS-26 mission, three more on China's Tiangong space station, four people on the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and nine more on board the International Space Station. (CollectSPACE)

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