Current events: 2024-10-11

Wikipedia Current Events · Oct 11, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Toretsk
  - The military administrator of Toretsk reports that about 50-60% of the Donetsk hilltop city has been taken by Russian Armed Forces, with the Armed Forces of Ukraine fighting back on eight separate points. (Reuters)
Israel–Hamas war
- At least 20 Palestinians are killed and dozens more are wounded by Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia camp in Gaza. (Reuters)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two United Nations peacekeepers are injured when Israeli forces fire at a watchtower in their headquarters in southern Lebanon. (Euronews)
  - France summons the Israeli ambassador over the latest attacks against UN peacekeepers, calling it a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself. (Le Monde)
- The Lebanese Armed Forces reports that two of its soldiers are killed in an Israeli strike on one of its positions in southern Lebanon. (Al Arabiya)
- A drone launched from Lebanon damages a building and causes a power outage in Herzliya, Israel. (Crisis 24)

Business and economy

King of Belgium Philippe and King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander open together the 'world's-largest' canal lock "Nieuwe Sluis" as part of the {{ill|Terneuzen locks|nl| Noordzeesluizen}} connecting the Netherlands and Belgium. (NOS)

Disasters and accidents

2024 South American wildfires
- 2024 Peru wildfires
  - The Global Wildfire Information System reports that 10,400 wildfires in Peru were started in 2024, representing over double the prior record amount in 2020, and with nearly 2.5 times the total area burned. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

2024 Nobel Peace Prize
- This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again". (The Washington Post) (Nobel Prize)