Portal:Current events/2024 September 24
September 24, 2024 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 23 September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- The death toll from the ongoing Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon increases to 558 people, including 50 children, with 1,835 others injured. (Al Jazeera)
- The Israeli government declares a nationwide state of emergency until 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 South American wildfires
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- Over thirty environmental organizations condemn Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's actions that contradict his calls for further global action against climate change, such as requests for drilling oil reserves near the Amazon River and paving the BR-319 roadway through the Amazon that they state contribute to ongoing wildfires. (AP)
- 2024 Brazil wildfires
- 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
- Tropical Storm Helene forms in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a major hurricane before making landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast on September 26. (National Hurricane Center)
Law and crime
- Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
- Ryan Wesley Routh is formally charged for attempting to assassinate former U.S. President and Republican Party nominee Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. (NBC News)
- Human rights in Belarus
- Belarusian independent news outlet Reform.news reports that Jörg Dornau, an Alternative for Germany member of the Saxony parliament, has allegedly used political prisoners as labor on a Belarusian onion plantation owned by his agricultural firm. (Politico)
- Murder of Felicia Gayle
- Marcellus Williams is executed by the State of Missouri shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court denies a request to delay the execution. (CBS)
Politics and elections
- Argentine President Javier Milei proposes an "agenda of freedom" with economic, social, and foreign policies that directly contradict the United Nations' "Pact for the Future", which Milei calls a model to "repress, restrict and curtail" humanity's freedom despite being ineffective at preventing conflicts. (Reuters)
Science and technology
- Scientists from the University of Waterloo announce that they have positively identified bones found on King William Island in Nunavut, Canada, as those of James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus during Franklin's lost expedition. (CBC News)