Portal:Current events/2024 March 9

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Gaza humanitarian crisis, Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Canada and Sweden resume funding for UNRWA, which had been suspended following the UNRWA October 7 controversy. (BBC News)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Three Hezbollah members and two civilians killed and nine injured in an Israeli strike on Khirbet Selm, southern Lebanon.(Le Monde)
  • Hezbollah fires 37 Katyusha rockets on Meron, Israel in northern Israel without injuries.(Times of Israel)

Disasters and accidents

• Twenty-six people are killed and eleven others are missing during flash floods in villages in the Pesisir Selatan Regency of West Sumatra province, Indonesia. (AP)
• Nine people are killed and one is injured after a van crashes into a semi truck in Wisconsin, United States. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• March 2024 Irish constitutional referendums
  • Voters in Ireland reject two constitutional referendums on the family and care. (Sky News)