Current events: 2023-10-22

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza–Israel conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • Journalists killed in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
      • Palestinian journalist Rushdi Sarraj is killed in an Israeli attack on his home. (The Peninsula)
    • At least 55 Palestinians are killed in overnight Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. (Al Jazeera)
    • The United Nations says the lives of at least 120 newborn babies in incubators in Gaza hospitals are at risk. (Al Jazeera)
    • The number of mosques destroyed in the Gaza Strip increases to 31. (Anadolu Agency)
    • An Israeli tank accidentally hits an Egyptian position near the border with Gaza. Several Egyptian border guards sustain injuries from shell fragments. (Reuters)
    • At least 300 Palestinians are placed under administrative detention or have had detention orders renewed, allowing Israel to hold them without charge indefinitely under secret evidence. (Al Jazeera)
    • Paddy Cosgrave, a co-founder of the European tech conference Web Summit, resigns after opposition to his public statements on Israel, which included, "War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are." (The Telegraph)
• Syrian civil war
  • Israel launches airstrikes against Damascus International Airport, killing two workers. (Reuters)

International relations

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests
  • Several thousand people gather in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, waving Palestinian and Bosnian flags and demanding an end to Israel's bombardment of Gaza. (Reuters)
• Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
  • The Philippines reports separate collision incidents between its military ships and vessels of both the China Coast Guard and the Maritime Militia near the Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratly Islands. (AFP via NDTV)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Argentine general election
  • Argentines go to the polls to elect the president and the members of the legislature. (Reuters)
• 2023 Swiss federal election
  • Voters in Switzerland go to the polls to elect the members of the Federal Assembly. (AP)
• Elections in Venezuela
  • 2023 Unitary Platform presidential primaries
    • Venezuelan opposition parties hold their first presidential primary since 2012. (AP)

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