Portal:Current events/2024 July 10
July 10, 2024 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas War
- Siege of Gaza City
- The Israel Defense Forces orders a complete evacuation of all Palestinians from Gaza City to areas south of the city in advance of a new offensive on Hamas targets. (AP)
- United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
- U.S. President Joe Biden's administration resumes shipments of 500-pound bombs to Israel following a suspension in May 2024 due to worries of harm to Palestinian civilians. This suspension provoked initial public criticism from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. (Reuters)
- Siege of Gaza City
- Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Four security officials and three Pakistani Taliban insurgents are killed in a shootout in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Two Ukrainians are killed by Russian drone and missile attacks on a port in southern Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, which damaged port infrastructure, an energy facility, and a civilian ship. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng, South Africa. (AP)
- A plane that was fighting the Horse Gulch fire crashes into Hauser Lake in Montana, United States killing the 45-year-old pilot which was the only occupant of the plane. (Montana Right Now)
International relations
- 2024 Washington summit, Foreign relations of China, China and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- NATO Washington Summit Declaration
- All 32 NATO member states approve an official announcement classifying China as a “decisive enabler” of Russia's invasion of Ukraine due to its "no-limits" economic and political partnership with Russia. (AP)
- NATO Washington Summit Declaration
- Russia–Saudi Arabia relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Bloomberg reports that Saudi Arabia warned the G7 earlier this year that it would sell off Eurobonds and French bonds if the G7 proceeded with the seizure of US$280 billion in Russian frozen assets that would be given to Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Iraq
- A criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences the widow of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her ties to the Islamic State and for detaining Yazidi women in her house. (Al Arabiya)