Portal:Current events/2006 July 26
July 26, 2006 (Wednesday)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Operation Summer Rains):
- At least nine people are killed in Israeli air raids in the east of Gaza City, including a three-year-old girl, according to medical sources. (BBC NEWS)
- Andrea Yates, a U.S. woman who killed her five children in 2001, is found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. (CBS News)
- The governments of Chad and Sudan sign an accord officially ending the Chadian-Sudanese conflict. The deal has many provisions similar to that of the Tripoli Accord, which Sudan has violated four times by aiding Janjaweed, UFDC, and anti-Bozizé rebels and genocidaires. (Syracuse.com)
- Germany and 11 other nations, including Israel, sign a protocol to open the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen in the state of Hesse up to international researchers. It contains up to 50 million documents relating to 17.5 million individuals. (Bloomberg)
- Fragments of a Psalter, a prayer book, are found in a bog in Ireland, where it has been for an estimated 1200 years. (Sydney Morning Herald)
- United States National Park Service director Fran P. Mainella announces her resignation. (NPS.gov)
- 2006 Kodori Gorge clashes: Georgian forces attack surrounded rebels after an ultimatum expires. (civil.ge)
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
- Four United Nations observers are killed in an Israeli air strike on an observation post in south Lebanon. An initial UN report says they contacted the Israeli troops 10 times before an incoming bomb killed four of them. (BBC NEWS), (BBC NEWS)
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in the Middle East. (Sky), (BBC NEWS)
- The Battle of Bint Jbail intensifies. (Ynetnews)
- Nine Israeli soldiers are killed as IDF forces attempt to gain control of a key hilltop in southern Lebanon. (AP), (BBC NEWS)