Current events: 2024-11-04

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Attacks on health facilities during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Kamal Adwan Hospital sieges
      • At least twelve Palestinians are killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, including seven at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, North Gaza Governorate. (Al Jazeera)
  • 2024 Israeli secret document leak scandal
    • Israel Police arrest a top Netanyahu aide after opponents accused him of leaking allegedly false classified intelligence to thwart a potential Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. (CNN) (BBC) (The Times of Israel)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • At least three people are killed in an Israeli attack on residential buildings in Ghazieh and Sidon, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
• Four teenagers are wounded, including two critically, in a fight involving an axe on a RER train at the Ozoir-la-Ferrière station in Seine-et-Marne, France. The main suspect is arrested at his home. (The Guardian)

Arts and culture

• The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet, an unidentified song recorded from a German Norddeutscher Rundfunk station in 1984, is identified as "Subways of Your Mind" by the band FEX. (404 Media)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Almora bus accident
  • At least 36 people are killed and 27 others are injured when a bus plunges into a gorge near Marchula, Uttarakhand, India. (The Indian Express) (ABC News)
• At least ten people are killed by the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Lakilaki in Flores, Indonesia. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Indonesia–Russia relations
  • The Indonesian Navy and the Russian Navy begin their first ever joint military exercise in the Java Sea. (DW)

Law and crime

• Women's rights in Iran
  • Amnesty International demands the release of Iranian university student Ahoo Daryaei who was arrested after stripping to her underwear and marching through the Islamic Azad University campus. (Sky News)

Politics and elections

• Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
  • Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesić resigns and accepts responsibility for the deadly canopy collapse at the Novi Sad railway station in Novi Sad. (DW)

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