Current events: 2024-08-24

Wikipedia Current Events · Aug 24, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Three-phase Israel–Hamas war ceasefire proposal
  - Hamas states that it will refuse any ceasefire conditions that allow Israel to continue to control the Rafah Crossing and Philadelphi Corridor, and also accuses the United States of spreading false optimism to support Democratic nominee Kamala Harris's presidential campaign instead of implementing constructive diplomatic measures. (Al Jazeera)
2024 Solingen stabbing
- The Islamic State claims responsibility for yesterday's mass stabbing in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and injured eight others. (BBC News)
Insurgency in Balochistan
- Three people, including two children, are killed and fifteen others are injured in a motorcycle bomb blast in Pishin District, Balochistan Province, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera) (The Washington Post)

International relations

Law and crime

Mexican drug war
- 2010 San Fernando massacre, 2011 San Fernando massacre
  - Eleven Los Zetas gunmen are sentenced to 50 years in prison each for the 2010–2011 massacres of 122 men in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, who were taken off passing buses and forced to fight each other to death with sledgehammers. (AP)
Kidnapping in Nigeria
- Nigerian police announce that the 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State, Nigeria, last week have been found without making any ransom payments. (Al Jazeera)
The owner and founder of the Telegram and VK social networks Pavel Durov is arrested at Paris–Le Bourget Airport in France shortly after arriving from Azerbaijan, in connection with alleged illegal activity on the Telegram app. (The Jerusalem Post) (Reuters)