Current events: 2024-07-06

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 16 Palestinians are killed by an Israeli strike on a school housing Palestinians displaced from ongoing military operations in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 North America heat waves
  • Maricopa County in Arizona, United States, investigates over 160 suspected heat-related deaths related to ongoing heat waves across Arizona, California, and Oregon. (AP)
• Fourteen people are killed and one survivor is critically injured after an oil tanker collides with a minibus in Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Four people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting in Florence, Kentucky, U.S., before the perpetrator shoots himself. (The Independent)

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