Portal:Current events/2024 August 29
August 29, 2024 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
- Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, is killed during an Israeli attack against the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, in the Palestinian occupied territories. Four other militants are also killed. (Al Jazeera)
- Iraq–Turkey relations, Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate. (Middle East Eye)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Pacific typhoon season
- More than 250,000 households are hit by power outages and dozens of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed, one person is missing, and seven others are injured in Kyushu due to Typhoon Shanshan. Major automakers including Toyota and Nissan suspend their domestic factories. (Reuters)