Armed conflicts and attacks
Russian invasion of Ukraine
The military administrator of the city of Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, reports that more than half of the city has been taken by Russian Armed Forces, with the Armed Forces of Ukraine fighting back at eight different locations. (Reuters)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
Two United Nations peacekeepers are injured when Israeli forces fire at a watchtower at their headquarters in southern Lebanon. (Euronews)
The Lebanese Armed Forces reports that two of its soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike on one of its positions in southern Lebanon. (Al Arabiya)
A drone launched from Lebanon damages a building and causes a power outage in Herzliya, Israel. (Crisis 24) (MTV Lebanon)
Israel destroys an Iranian Red Crescent Society field hospital on the Lebanon–Syria border. (Xinhua)
Israel–Hamas war
At least 20 Palestinians are killed and dozens of others are injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
2024 Nobel Peace Prize
This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again". (The Washington Post) (Nobel Prize)