Saturday

July 20, 2024

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

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)

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)