Current events: 2024-09-19

Wikipedia Current Events · 2024-09-19T21:10:23-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Lebanon pager explosions
  - The death toll from yesterday's walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah militants increases to 25, with more than 600 others injured. A total of 37 people have been killed and more than 3,000 others injured in explosions over the last two days. (The Independent)
  - United States officials report that U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was pre-warned by Israel about the military operation in Lebanon occurring later that day, and claim that they received no prior details about the nature of the attack. (AP)
- The Israeli Air Force strikes more than 100 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, destroying multiple rocket launch systems and weapons depots. Lebanese security forces say the raids are the most intense since the conflict began. Israeli fighter jets are also reported over Beirut. (Reuters)
- Two Israeli soldiers are killed and eight others are injured in Hezbollah drone and anti-tank missile attacks on the Israel–Lebanon border. (The Times of Israel)
Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
  - Six Palestinians are killed and 18 others are injured in an Israeli military raid in the city of Qabatiya in the West Bank. (Reuters)
2024 New Caledonia unrest
- Two New Caledonian independence activists are killed by police during an operation in Saint-Louis over their alleged involvement in the ongoing riots. (AP)

Arts and culture

A previously unknown piece composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ganz kleine Nachtmusik, is discovered at a library in Leipzig, Germany. The seven miniature movements for a string trio were probably composed in the 1760s when Mozart was in his early teens. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

2024 European floods
- Ongoing severe flooding generated by Storm Boris causes more than $2.2 billion worth of damage and at least 26 deaths in Central Europe. (BBC News)

Law and crime

One person is killed and another is severely injured in a stabbing attack near the Erasmusbrug bridge in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (AP)

Politics and elections

Privacy & Transparency