Current events: 2024-07-20

Wikipedia Current Events · Jul 20, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - At least 37 Palestinians are killed and 54 are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, with the confirmed death toll surpassing 38,900 people. (Reuters) (Anandolu Ajansi)
Red Sea crisis
- 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
  - Israeli airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the Yemeni port of Hodeidah, killing and wounding several people. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
  - Three people, including one child, are killed in a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Mykolaiv and two are killed in Kherson, Ukraine. (Euronews) (The Moscow Times)
2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The death toll from the ongoing protests in Bangladesh increases to 110 people. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

2024 China floods
- At least 12 people have died and 31 are missing after a bridge collapsed in Shanxi, China, following flash flooding. (CNN)

Politics and elections

Internet censorship
- The government of Equatorial Guinea suspends Internet and telephone coverage on the separatist island of Annobón, drawing condemnation from the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization. (Agencia NOVA)