Current events: 2024-07-10

Wikipedia Current Events · Jul 10, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas War
- Siege of Gaza City
  - The Israel Defense Forces orders a complete evacuation of all Palestinians from Gaza City to areas south of the city in advance of a new offensive on Hamas targets. (AP)
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Four security officers and three Pakistani Taliban gunmen are killed in a shootout in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Two Ukrainians are killed by Russian drone and missile attacks on a port in southern Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, which damaged port infrastructure, an energy facility, and a civilian ship. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng, South Africa. (AP)

International relations

2024 Washington summit, Foreign relations of China
- NATO Washington Summit Declaration
  - All 32 NATO member states approve an official announcement classifying China as a “decisive enabler” of Russia's invasion of Ukraine due to its "no-limits" economic and political partnership with Russia. (AP)
Russia–Saudi Arabia relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Bloomberg reports that Saudi Arabia warned the G7 earlier this year that it would sell off Eurobonds and French bonds if the G7 proceeded with the seizure of US$280 billion in Russian frozen assets that would be given to Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)

Law and crime

Capital punishment in Iraq
- A criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences the widow of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her ties to the Islamic State and for detaining Yazidi women in her house. (Al Arabiya)