Current events: 2024-10-05

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Hamas says that an Israeli strike killed Saeed Atallah, a leader in the Al-Qassam Brigades, along with three family members in a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces claim that they captured the village of Bazhane Druhe in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Economic Times)
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Indian police claim that 31 Naxalite rebels were killed in a shootout with Indian soldiers in the Abujhmad forest in Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• English Channel migrant crossings
  • Four people, including a child, are killed in two separate incidents while attempting to cross the English Channel in boats. (BBC News)

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