Portal:Current events/2022 September 28
September 28, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Four Palestinians are killed and 44 others are injured as Israeli soldiers storm a refugee camp in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. The brother of the 2022 Tel Aviv shooting's perpetrator is among the killed. (YNetNews) (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Russian mobilization
- North Ossetia–Alania, the republic which contains the only border crossing with Georgia-controlled territory, bans all Russian cars that do not have the licence plate of the republic, with the exception of tourists to the region. This comes as those fleeing the draft overwhelm the border. (Reuters)
- A mobile draft centre is built on the Torfyanovka checkpoint, the busiest on the Russian-Finnish border, to prevent people who are fit to serve to flee the country. (The Insider)
- Sardar Pakpour, commander of Iran’s ground forces says 73 ballistic missiles have been launched at Kurdish opposition forces in northern Iraq, with targets in 42 places, some being 400 km away, being hit. (Tasnim)
Disasters and accidents
Politics and elections
- 2022 annexation referendums in Russian-occupied Ukraine
- The Russian-installed heads of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts' occupation administrations, as well as that of the breakaway Luhansk People's Republic, officially request that they be annexed to Russia, following a referendum, widely seen as fraudulent, conducted in these regions of Ukraine. (The Guardian)
- Russell Kun becomes the President of Nauru, replacing Lionel Aingimea. (RNZ)