Portal:Current events/2024 August 29

August 29, 2024 (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Arab–Israeli conflict
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  - Israel–Hamas war
    - Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
      - 2024 Gaza Strip polio epidemic
        Israel and Hamas agree to three separate three-day humanitarian pauses to allow the World Health Organization to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
      - The Israel Defence Forces carry out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza that kills five workers. (The Guardian)
  - 2024 Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank
    - Mohammed "Abu Shujaa" Jaber, leader of the Tulkarm Brigade, and four other fighters are killed in an Israeli attack on the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm in the West Bank. (Al Jazeera)
    - The number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the operation in the West Bank two days ago increases to 18, including eight in Jenin, six in Tulkarm, and four in Tubas. Dozens of others are wounded and at least 20 others have been arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  - IDF launches air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Kafr Kila and Yarine in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
  - Hezbollah launches four rocket and drone strikes on the outpost of the IDF 210th Golan Division in Nafah, Golan Heights. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
  - The Russian defence ministry claims that its forces have captured the settlements of Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)
2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- Bangladeshi interim health minister Nurjahan Begum says that more than 1,000 people were killed during last month's anti-government protests, making it the bloodiest period in the country's history since the 1971 independence movement. (Al Arabiya)
2024 Red Sea oil spill
- The Houthis release footage showing their fighters boarding and placing explosives on the Greek-flagged MT Sounion oil tanker, causing explosions that put the tanker at risk of causing a major oil spill in the Red Sea. (AP)
Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
- Iraq shoots down a Turkish TAI Aksungur drone over Kirkuk Governorate. (Middle East Eye)

Business and economy

Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
- It is announced that the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans amusement park, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina struck the park and New Orleans, will be demolished beginning next month. Bayou Phoenix is expected to rebuild the area as a $500 million complex with youth sports fields, hotels, shops, a movie studio and a waterpark. (Axios)

Disasters and accidents

2024 Pacific typhoon season
- More than 250,000 households are affected by power outages and dozens of people are reportedly injured as Typhoon Shanshan makes landfall over Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. (Reuters)
- Three people are killed, seven are injured, and one person is reported missing in Kyushu due to Typhoon Shanshan. (Reuters)
2024 Yemen floods
- The death toll from the floods in Al Mahwit Governorate, Yemen, increases to 33. (ABC News)
Migrant vessel incidents on the Mediterranean Sea
- Pope Francis strongly condemns European mistreatment of migrants crossing from the Mediterranean Sea and refusal to offer aid as means to reject them from entering European nations as "a grave sin", and requests the expansion of migrant access routes to the continent. (The Hill) (Reuters)
Two people are killed and ten others are injured in a gas leak at an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps training center in Isfahan province, Iran. (AP)
Three people are killed and 17 are injured when a car crashes into a group of migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico. (AP)

Health and environment

One hundred tons of dead freshwater fish wash up in and around the port of Volos in Greece as a result of severe flooding followed by a prolonged drought in Lake Karla caused by "extreme climate fluctuations". (AP)

International relations

France–Serbia relations
- Serbia and French aerospace manufacturer Dassault Aviation sign an agreement for the purchase of twelve Dassault Rafale warplanes. (Le Monde)

Law and crime

Germany–Iran relations
- The interior ministry of Hamburg, Germany, expels the Iranian leader of the Islamic Centre Hamburg Mohammad Hadi Mofatteh, giving Mofatteh a September 11 deadline to either leave the country or face deportation. (Reuters)

Sports

The Taliban government bans mixed martial arts, saying that the sport is too violent and has a risk of death and that it is incompatible with Islamic law. (BBC News)