Current events: 2024-02-14

Wikipedia Current Events · Feb 14, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
  - A rocket attack from Lebanon on a military base kills an Israeli soldier and injures several others in Safed, Israel, while Israeli airstrikes kill three civilians in Souaneh, and a Hezbollah militant in Aadchit, in southern Lebanon; eleven others are wounded. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Crimea attacks
  - Ukraine claims to have sunk the Russian ship Caesar Kunikov off the coast of Katsiveli, Crimea. A video appears to show the vessel being struck with unmanned surface drones. (RFE/RL)
Cross-Strait relations
- Four Chinese fishermen go overboard and two drown near Kinmen, Taiwanese Fujian, after their boat capsizes while being chased by the Taiwan Coast Guard, who allege they were trespassing. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Port Hills fire
- A state of emergency has been declared in Christchurch, New Zealand, as firefighters battle to control a bushfire in the city's Port Hills region. (Stuff)
Fifteen people are killed and eight more injured during the collision of a truck and four microbuses in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP)
One person is killed and 53 others are injured after a church balcony in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan, Philippines, collapses during an Ash Wednesday Mass. (WION)
Explosions occur along the route of a natural gas pipeline spanning from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran, to the Caspian Sea. The Iranian oil minister blames the incident on "terrorism and sabotage". (Reuters)