Current events: 2025-06-11

Wikipedia Current Events · Wednesday at 8:43 PM

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution incidents
  - At least 31 Palestinians are killed by the Israel Defense Forces at an aid distribution site in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- Gaza war hostage crisis
  - Israeli forces in Gaza recover the bodies of two hostages abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attacks. (Haaretz) (BBC News)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - The Gaza Health Ministry reports that the official death toll of Palestinians killed in the war since October 2023 has reached 55,000 people, with over 127,000 people wounded. (AP)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
  - Russia launches drone attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging buildings and public facilities, killing three people and injuring 60 others. (Ukrainska Pravda)

Arts and culture

President of Argentina Javier Milei is awarded with the Genesis Prize during a state visit to Israel for his "unequivocal support for Israel", becoming the first non-Jewish person to receive such recognition. (Clarín) (Haaretz)

Business and economy

Australian flag carrier Qantas announces the closure of its Singapore-based, partly owned low-cost airline Jetstar Asia due to rising costs and regional competition. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

Mediterranean Sea migrant smuggling
- At least eight migrants are found dead and 22 others are missing as the United Nations International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government launch a joint rescue operation after migrants were forced off a boat and forced to swim to shore off the coast of Djibouti. (AP)

International relations

Gaza war
- 2025 New York Peace Conference on Gaza
  - The Trump administration calls on countries not to attend a conference for ceasefire and peace in Gaza at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, New York, and warns of potential diplomatic consequences should any measures be taken that are deemed hostile toward Israel. (Reuters)
Argentina–Israel relations
- President of Argentina Javier Milei announces that the Argentine embassy in Israel will be moved to Jerusalem in 2026. (YNet)
North Korea–South Korea relations
- The military of South Korea shuts down its loudspeakers across the border with North Korea and stops its propaganda messages against the government of North Korea by orders of President Lee Jae-myung, to ease tensions between the countries. (AP)

Law and crime

Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia
- A court in Moscow, Russia, sentences Leonid Volkov, an ally of Alexei Navalny, to 18 years in prison in absentia and fines him 2 million rubles (US$25,000) on criminal charges including justifying terrorism, organizing and financing an extremist group. (AP)
- The same court places Lev Shlosberg, chairman of the opposition social-liberal party Yabloko, under house arrest for two months for discrediting the Russian army. (Reuters)