Portal:Current events/2024 October 11
October 11, 2024 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Two United Nations peacekeepers are injured when Israeli forces fire at a watchtower in their headquarters in southern Lebanon. (Euronews)
- France summons the Israeli ambassador over the latest attacks against U.N. soldiers, calling it a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself. (Le Monde)
- The Lebanese military reports that two of its soldiers are killed in an Israeli strike on one of its positions in south Lebanon. (Al Arabiya)
- Drone launched from Lebanon damages building and causes power outage in Herzliya, Israel. (Crisis 24)
- Two United Nations peacekeepers are injured when Israeli forces fire at a watchtower in their headquarters in southern Lebanon. (Euronews)
Health and environment
- King of Belgium Philippe and King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander open together the 'world's-largest' canal lock "Nieuwe Sluis" as part of the Terneuzen, connecting the Netherlands and Belgium. (NOS)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
- This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again". (The Washington Post) (Nobel Prize)