The Weekly Edition

July 6, 2025 to July 12, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis

Gaza war

Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip

Five Israeli soldiers are killed and two others are seriously injured in an ambush in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. (The New York Times) (The Washington Post)

Israeli–Lebanese conflict

Israel conducts four drone strikes in Bint Jbeil, Shebaa, and Shaqra, in southern Lebanon over the weekend, killing one person and injuring several others. (Al Jazeera)

An Israeli airstrike kills at least three people and injures 13 others in an attack on Tripoli, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Red Sea crisis

Liberian-flagged bulk carrier Magic Seas is attacked by the Houthis with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in the Red Sea forcing the crew to abandon ship, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operation. (NOS) (ABC News Australia)

Israeli attacks on Yemen

The Israeli Air Force strikes three ports and a power plant in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to recent ballistic missile attacks on Israel. (ABC News) (Reuters)

Houthi attacks on commercial vessels

Attacks on the Eternity C

At least four people are killed, two people are injured and two other people are missing after the Eternity C, a Liberian flagged ship, is attacked in the Red Sea near Hodeida, Yemen, by multiple Houthi boats and drones. The ship later sinks. (NOS) (NOS)

Boko Haram insurgency

Boko Haram insurgents kill nine people and injure four others in an attack on Mallam Fatori in Borno State, Nigeria. (AP)

Gang war in Haiti

The historic Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is destroyed following an arson attack by armed gangs. (Le Quotidien 509)

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Ukrainian Armed Forces launch a long-range drone strike on Krasnodar Krai, Russia, damaging the main oil refinery in Ilsky. (The Kyiv Independent)

Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Russia launches over 100 drones at areas across Ukraine, killing ten civilians and injuring 38 others. (PBS)

Kyiv strikes

An overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv, Ukraine, kills two people, injures 16 others, and causes fires across the capital with multiple districts targeted. At least 400 drones and 18 missiles are launched in total. (BBC News)

United States and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

United States president Donald Trump confirms plans to sell weapons to NATO allies to be provided to Ukraine after the Pentagon previously paused weapon shipments. (Axios) (PBS)

Somali Civil War

2025 Shabelle offensive

Al-Shabaab militants recapture Moqokori, a town in the Hiiraan region of Somalia. The heavy fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 Somali National Army and Ma'awisley fighters. (Garowe Online)

2025 Kenyan protests

Eleven people are killed and 29 others are injured in clashes with security forces amid ongoing anti-government protests in Kenya, according to the National Commission on Human Rights. (Sky News) (Reuters)

Nigerian bandit conflict

Over 70 vigilante group members are killed and others are missing in an ambush by bandits in two villages in Kanam and Wase, Plateau State, Nigeria. Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) denied the initial account and reported eight deaths and several missing. (Daily Post) (Vanguard News) (The Punch)

At least 30 bandits, five security officers and one civilian are killed during an insurgent attack on villages in the district of Faskari, located in the state of Katsina in Nigeria. (AP) (Reuters)

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Gaza war

Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, queuing for nutritional supplements near a medical point in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. They were among at least 82 killed in strikes in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it struck a member Hamas's elite Nukhba forces who took part in the October 7 attacks. (BBC News) (Al Jazeera)

Palestinian political violence

Two Palestinians kill a 20-year-old Israeli settler in a combined shooting and stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Mall in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (YNet)

Israeli settler violence

Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians near Ramallah in the West Bank. One of the victims, identified as a Palestinian-American, was beaten to death whilst the other victim was shot in the chest. (Reuters)

Myanmar civil war

At least 23 civilians, including four children, are killed and about 30 others are injured, with ten critically injured, in an Air Force strike on a Buddhist monastery in the District of Sagaing, located in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. (ABC News)