Current events: 2024-02-22

Wikipedia Current Events · Feb 22, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
  - Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
    - Red Sea crisis
      - A Palau-flagged cargo ship en route to Egypt is set ablaze after being hit by an anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. No casualties are reported. (AP)
  - Forty people are killed and 100 others are injured during Israeli airstrikes against residential buildings in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- One Israeli is killed and 11 others are severely injured in a shooting attack by three Palestinians near Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. Two gunmen are killed by Israeli soldiers, while a third is injured and arrested. (The National News), (Times of Israel)
War in Sudan
- The World Food Programme releases a report stating over 95% of Sudan's population cannot afford a meal a day. (Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Guangzhou bridge collapse
- Five people are killed when a barge rams a bridge in Guangzhou, Guangdong, in southern China. (Reuters) (The New York Times)
A 14-storey residential building in Valencia, Spain, is engulfed in flames, killing at least four people and injuring at least 14 others. (BBC News)

Science and technology

2024 AT&T outage
- More than 71,000 customers of US carrier AT&T suffer from network outages. The outage was acknowledged but no reason was given for their occurrence. (CNN)
- Smaller outages are reported by some customers of US carriers Verizon and T-Mobile. Both carriers report no outages on their networks and say the reported outages are customers trying to reach users on other carriers. (NBC News)
Exploration of the Moon
- Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Odysseus successfully touches down on the Moon, near the lunar south pole, making it the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. (BBC News)

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