Portal:Current events/2021 May 12
May 12, 2021 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Operation Guardian of the Walls, 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
- Sixteen more Palestinian civilians are killed after other airstrikes are executed by Israel in Gaza, bringing the death toll to 48. Among the victims there are a 5-year-old child and their parents who died as a residential building collapse, while five more are farmers killed at their farm. At least a total of 304 others are injured. The number of children killed rise to fourteen. The main Palestinian headquarters and all the police stations in Gaza are destroyed by the strikes. Protests also erupt in the West Bank, resulting in the death of two protestors. (Al Jazeera)
- Two more people are killed during Hamas' rockets in Lod, bringing the Israeli civilian death toll to 5, while an IDF soldier is killed as a military jeep outside Gaza is bombed. (BBC)
- Operation Guardian of the Walls, 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
- War in Afghanistan
- Afghan officials confirm that Nirkh District, in Maidan Wardak Province, has fallen to the Taliban the previous day as the group seized the district building and torched it after days of intense siege. Attacks by the group have significantly increased as United States troops started to withdraw from the country with the final deadline of September 11. (DW)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in India, Lineage B.1.617
- India reports 4,205 new deaths from COVID-19, the highest 24-hour death toll thus far. This number surpasses the previous record of 4,187 deaths reported on Friday. It also pushes the nationwide death toll to 254,197. (The Times of India)
- The World Health Organization says the B.1.617 variant first found in India in October had been detected in more than 4,500 samples uploaded to an open-access database from 44 countries. (Khaleej Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
- Thailand reports a record 34 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 486. (Bangkok Post)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
- COVID-19 pandemic in India, Lineage B.1.617