Current events: 2024-05-26

Wikipedia Current Events · May 26, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Insurgency in the North Gaza Strip
  - A spokesperson for Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades claim that they captured IDF soldiers in Jabalia yesterday. However, the IDF denies this claim. (Reuters)
- Rafah offensive
  - The Palestine Red Crescent Society reports that at least 35 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on tents for displaced civilians in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. (AP)
- The Al-Qassam Brigades fire rockets towards Tel Aviv, Israel, for the first time in four months. (BBC News) (El Confidencial)
Yemeni civil war
- The Houthis, with assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross, free more than 100 detainees in Sana'a, Yemen, in a "unilateral humanitarian initiative" to pardon prisoners and return them to their families. (Reuters)
More than twenty civilians are killed in an attack by unidentified gunman in a village in Mopti region, Mali. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Enga landslide
- The International Organization for Migration estimates that more than 670 people were killed in the landslide in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, on Friday. (AP)
Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–26, 2024
- The death toll from an overnight tornado outbreak in the U.S. states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas increases to 15. (The Virginian-Pilot) (AP)
Ten people are killed and 39 others are injured in a collision between a bus and three other vehicles on a highway near Mersin, Turkey. (Reuters)

International relations

Politics and elections

Sports

Privacy & Transparency