Tuesday

2025 Gaza City offensive

An independent United Nations commission of inquiry publishes a report that "finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza," listing four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people during the war. (UN News) (BBC News)

M23 rebels hold a military parade of newly-trained recruits in eastern Congolese towns captured by the rebels in an offensive months prior. (AP)

The Israel Air Force bombs at least ten Houthi targets near Hudaydah Port in Al Hudaydah, Yemen. The sites targeted by the airstrikes reportedly include a command center and locations used to smuggle weapons from Iran. (The Jerusalem Post)

The Trump administration approves its first weapons aid packages for Ukraine. This is the first use of a new mechanism to supply Ukraine with weapons from U.S. stocks using funds from NATO countries. (Reuters)

Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) fighters ambush and burn at least 100 fuel trucks arriving in Mali from Senegal and the Ivory Coast. The attacks are part of a nationwide blockade on fuel and other goods enforced by JNIM as it besieges Malian government-held cities and towns. (AP via Ottumwa Courier)

The Naxalites declare an indefinite unilateral ceasefire and state their openness to peace talks with the Indian government amid ongoing military operations against their insurgency. (AFP via UCA News)

Uganda announces that it will borrow US$358 million from the African Development Fund, the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, and Standard Chartered to fund a power grid link with South Sudan, a road to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and expanded clean water access. (Reuters)