Portal:Current events/2024 July 9
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July 9, 2024
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- 9 July 2024 Gaza attacks
- At least 50 Palestinians are killed and dozens of others are injured in Israeli attacks on Tel al-Hawa, Sabra, and Shuja'iyya, Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
- Al-Awda School massacre
- At least 29 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack targeting the entrance of a UNRWA-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians, becoming Israel's fourth attack on Gaza schools in the past four days. (BBC News)
- United Nations human rights experts accuse Israel of carrying out a "targeted starvation campaign" that resulted in child malnutrition and death in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- 9 July 2024 Gaza attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Syria, killing two Israelis. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- U.S. military officials announce that the Gaza floating pier will be permanently removed after being reinstalled for several more days, due to weather and aid distribution problems. (AP)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces reportedly capture the village of Yasnobrodivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Barron's)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- Wildfires burn 760,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of the Brazilian Pantanal, destroying over 4% of Brazil's largest wetland. (The Guardian)
- 2024 Sulawesi landslide
- The death toll from the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Bone Bolango, Indonesia, amid heavy rains, increases to 23 people. Thirty-five others are still missing and 23 more were rescued. (AP)
International relations
- Ethiopia–Sudan relations, Sudanese peace process
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed meets in Port Sudan with Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council leader and armed forces commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to seek an end to the Sudanese Civil War. (Sudan Tribune)
- Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union
- The European Union pauses the accession of Georgia to the organization and freezes €30 million (US$32.5 million) in aid to the Georgian Ministry of Defense after the Georgian parliament passed a law requiring media and nonprofit groups to be deemed as foreign agents if they receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign sources. (AP)
- Ukraine–NATO relations
- NATO announces that it will establish a senior representative to Kyiv to coordinate with Ukrainian officials and strengthen Ukraine's ties to NATO. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, Iran–United States relations
- United States Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines accuses the Iranian government of using social media to covertly encourage and finance pro-Palestinian campus protests, in order to deepen American political divisions and increase distrust in democratic institutions. (AP)
- Killings of Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt
- Three women are killed during a crossbow attack at a house in Bushey, United Kingdom. A 26-year-old man is wanted. (AP)
- A court in Moscow, Russia, issues an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is currently residing outside of Russia. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Washington summit
- The 33rd NATO summit begins in Washington, D.C., United States. (Al Jazeera)
Sports
- UEFA Euro 2024
- In association football, Spanish player Lamine Yamal becomes the youngest goalscorer at a UEFA European Championship tournament after scoring in Spain's 2–1 semi-final win against France at 16 years and 362 days old. (AP)