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July 20, 2024
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2024-07-20
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Israel–Hamas war
Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
At least 39
Palestinians
are killed and 54 others are injured in
Israeli
airstrikes across the
Gaza Strip
.
(Reuters)
(Anadolu Agency)
Red Sea crisis
2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
In response to the prior day's
Houthi
drone attack on
Tel Aviv
,
Israeli
airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the
Yemeni
port of
Al Hudaydah
, killing six people and injuring over eighty others.
(Al Jazeera)
2024 Iran–Israel conflict
,
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Four civilians injured in an IDF strike on a Hezbollah ammunition depot in south Lebanon.
(Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Southern Ukraine campaign
Five people, including a child, are killed in
Russian
missile strikes on
Mykolaiv
and
Kherson
,
Ukraine
.
(Euronews)
(
The Moscow Times
)
Insurgency in the Maghreb
Twelve
soldiers
are killed during an attack by
JNIM
gunmen against a military base in Kpékankandi,
Togo
. Forty attackers are neutralized.
(LSi)
2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
The death toll from the ongoing protests in
Bangladesh
increases to 110 people.
(Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
2024 China floods
At least 12 people are killed and 31 others are missing when a bridge collapses due to
flash flooding
in
Zhashui County
,
Shaanxi
,
China
.
(CNN)
At least 16 people are killed and 14 others are injured in a
head-on collision
between a truck and a passenger bus on a highway between
Patacamaya
,
Bolivia
, and
Tambo Quemado
,
Chile
.
(RTÉ)
Politics and elections
The government of
Equatorial Guinea
suspends internet and telephone services on the separatist island of
Annobón
, with the
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
condemning the suspension.
(Agencia NOVA)
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