Portal:Current events/2024 February 22

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israel–Hamas war
    • Forty people are killed and 100 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes against residential buildings in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
  • Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
    • Az-Za'ayyem checkpoint shooting
      • One Israeli is killed and 11 others are seriously injured in a shooting attack by three Palestinians near the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the occupied West Bank. Two gunmen are killed by Israeli soldiers, while a third is killed in a chase afterwards. (The National News) (Times of Israel)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah clashes
  • A Hezbollah rocket strikes Yuval, northern Israel.(Times of Israel)
  • Two Hezbollah militants killed and three injured in Israeli drone strike on an apartment building in Kfar Remen.(Times of Israel)
  • Red Sea crisis
    • A Palau-flagged cargo ship en route to Egypt is set on fire after being hit by an anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. No casualties are reported. (AP)
• War in Sudan
  • The World Food Programme releases a report stating that more than 95% of Sudan's population cannot afford a meal a day. (Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Guangzhou bridge collapse
  • Five people are killed when a barge collides with the Lixinsha Bridge in Guangzhou, China. (Reuters) (The New York Times)
• 2024 València residential complex fire
  • Nine people are killed, 15 others are injured and one is missing during a fire at a 14-storey residential building in Valencia, Spain. (AP)
• At least eight people are killed during floods and landslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. (AP)

Law and crime

• Murder of Kathleen Jo Henry
  • An Alaskan jury finds Brian Smith guilty of the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk. (ABC News)
• A court in Panama orders the arrest of former president Ricardo Martinelli, who is under protection of the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City. (ABC News)
• A majority of citizens of Westlock voted to ban public display of pride flags.^[1]

Science and technology

• 2024 AT&T outage
  • More than 71,000 customers of US mobile carrier AT&T experience network outages. Some Verizon and T-Mobile users also report outages. (CNN) (NBC News)
• Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Odysseus successfully touches down on the Moon, near the lunar south pole, making it the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. (BBC News)