Current events: 2023-10-11

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
      • The Palestine Liberation Organization says that Israel refused a request to bring food and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
      • Gaza's only power plant stops producing power due to a lack of fuel, thereby threatening to further impact over-capacity medical facilities. Authorities begin rationing and directing power to emergency services. (CNN)
      • The UN Palestine Agency says that Israeli airstrikes have killed eleven of its staff in Gaza, with four Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics and one Magen David Adom ambulance driver also being killed in clashes. The agency also says that it has less than two weeks' supply of food and water available to assist the more than 180,000 people who have sought refuge in their schools in Gaza. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
      • Dozens of Israeli fighter jets carry out more than 200 airstrikes overnight on the Al-Furqan neighborhood in Gaza City. The Rimal and al-Karama neighbourhoods are also targeted by airstrikes, with eight 12-storey buildings destroyed. At least 30 people are killed and hundreds more are injured. (First Post) (Al Jazeera) (ABC News) (Tasnim) (Times of Israel)
      • Israeli airstrikes destroy more than 22,600 residential units and 10 health facilities and also damage 48 schools as Hamas continues to fire rockets from civilian areas in violation of international law. At least 260 children have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza. (CBC News) (Al Jazeera)
      • At least 16 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli air raid on the southern city of Khan Younis and at least three Palestinians are killed and nine others are injured by Israeli soldiers in the Qusra south of Nablus in the West Bank. (The National News) (Reuters)
    • At least 1,055 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks and 5,184 others have been injured. At least 1,300 people in Israel have been killed and 2,800 others have been injured, according to the Israeli army. (Reuters)
    • United States President Joe Biden confirms reports that Hamas soldiers beheaded children during the Kfar Aza massacre, and also says that Arab nations have begun supplying humanitarian aid to Israel. (Times of Israel)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Herat earthquakes
  • A magnitude 6.3 aftershock strikes near the Afghan city of Herat, killing at least one person and injuring 65 others just four days after two earthquakes of the same magnitude struck the same area, killing thousands of people. (Radio Azadi)
• Flights are suspended at Luton Airport in Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, after a fire occurs in a multistorey car park at the airport. (BBC News)

International relations

• Dominican Republic–Haiti border
  • The Dominican Republic partially reopens its border with Haiti for some commercial activity after closing the border last month. (AP)

Law and crime

• International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • Police in Vienna, Austria, announce that they have banned a pro-Palestinian protest over mentions of "from the river to the sea" in invitations and the characterization of the protest as a call for violence. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli war cabinet‎
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz agree to form an emergency government during the war. (BBC News)
• October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
  • Republicans in the U.S. House nominate Steve Scalise to replace Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. (Reuters)

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