Portal:Current events/2024 September 24
September 24, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- The toll from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes against southern Lebanon since yesterday increases to 558 people killed, including 50 children, and 1,835 others injured. (Al Jazeera)
- The Israeli government declares a nationwide state of emergency through September 30. (Anadolu Agency)
- The Israel Defense Forces announce that they killed Ibrahim Qubaisi, Hezbollah's missiles and rocket force commander, in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kharkiv strikes
- At least three people are killed and 22 others are injured in a Russian guided bomb attack on an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
- Kharkiv strikes
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Helene forms in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States on Thursday, September 26. (National Hurricane Center)
Science and technology
- The University of Waterloo and Lakehead University in Canada announce that they have positively identified bones found on King William Island in 1982 as those of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus during Franklin's lost expedition. (University of Waterloo)