Current events: 2025-07-19

Wikipedia Current Events · 2025-07-19T20:47:20-0400

Armed conflicts and attacks

Gaza war
- 2025 Gaza Strip aid distribution killings
  - At least 32 Palestinians are killed trying to reach Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites. (AP)
Syrian civil war
- Southern Syria clashes
  - Fierce street-to-street fighting is reportedly underway between local Druze forces and pro-government Bedouin tribesmen. (i24)
  - An Agence France-Presse war correspondent reports witnessing armed men looting and setting fire to Druze-owned shops in Suwayda. (BBC News)
- Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar warns the Druze minority in Suwayda, Syria, are under threat from "jihadist attackers" and accuses Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa of supporting them. (Kurdistan 24)
M23 campaign
- The March 23 Movement (M23) and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sign a declaration of principles stating that a full ceasefire and final peace agreement will be signed no later than August 18, and that it will be aligned with the earlier DR Congo–Rwanda agreement. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

At least 34 people are killed, 11 are rescued and 8 others are reported missing, including children, when tourist boat {{MV|Wonder Sea||2}} capsizes at the Hạ Long Bay UNESCO World Heritage Site in Vietnam. (News18)
Nine people are killed and six others are injured when a truck collides with two passenger vans in Aurora, Isabela province, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)

Law and crime

Turkish involvement in the Somali civil war
- Puntland Maritime Police Force confiscated a Turkish vessel illegally transporting high-grade weaponry, including armoured personnel carriers and crates of weapons to Mogadishu in the coastal area of Bareeda in the Ras Aseir region. (Idil News) (Marine Insight)
2025 Hollywood car attack
- At least 30 people are injured, including seven critically, in a vehicle-ramming attack at a night club in Los Angeles, California, United States. (AP) (Los Angeles Fire Department)

Sports