Portal:Current events/2023 October 11

October 11, 2023 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
  - 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
    - The Palestine Liberation Organization says that Israel refused a request to bring food and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
    - Gaza's only power plant stops producing power due to a lack of fuel, thereby threatening to further impact over-capacity medical facilities. Authorities begin rationing and directing power to emergency services. (CNN)
    - The UN Palestine Agency says that Israeli airstrikes have killed eleven of its staff in Gaza, with four Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics and one Magen David Adom ambulance driver also being killed in clashes. The agency also says that it has less than two weeks' supply of food and water available to assist the more than 180,000 people who have sought refuge in their schools in Gaza. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
  - Dozens of Israeli Air Force warplanes carry out more than 200 airstrikes overnight on the Al-Furqan neighborhood in Gaza City. The Rimal and al-Karama neighbourhoods are also targeted by airstrikes, with eight 12-storey buildings destroyed. At least 30 people are killed and hundreds more are injured. (First Post) (Al Jazeera) (ABC News) (Tasnim) (Times of Israel)
  - Israeli airstrikes destroy more than 22,600 residential units and 10 health facilities and also damage 48 schools as Hamas continues to fire rockets from civilian areas in violation of international law. At least 260 children have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza. (CBC News) (Al Jazeera)
  - At least 16 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli air raid on the southern city of Khan Younis and at least three Palestinians are killed and nine others are injured by Israeli soldiers in the Qusra south of Nablus in the West Bank. (The National News) (Reuters)
  - At least 1,055 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks and 5,184 others have been injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. At least 1,300 people in Israel have been killed and 2,800 others have been injured, according to the Israeli military. (Reuters)
  - Germany approves an Israeli request to use two of its IAI Heron combat drones in strikes on the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Three Lebanese civilians injured in IDF and Hezbollah exchanges fire near Tyre, Lebanon. (New Arab)

Disasters and accidents

2023 Herat earthquakes
- A magnitude 6.3 aftershock strikes near the Afghan city of Herat, killing at least one person and injuring 65 others just four days after two earthquakes of the same magnitude struck the same area, killing thousands of people. (Radio Azadi)
Flights are suspended at Luton Airport in Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, after a fire occurs in a multistorey car park at the airport. (BBC News)

International relations

Australia–China relations
- China deports Australian journalist Cheng Lei following over three years of detention and a conviction on espionage charges. (AFP via The Manila Times)
Dominican Republic–Haiti relations
- The Dominican Republic partially reopens its border with Haiti for some commercial activity after closing the border last month. (AP)

Law and crime

Israel–Hamas war protests
- Police in Vienna, Austria, announce that they have banned a pro-Palestinian protest over mentions of "from the river to the sea" in invitations and the characterization of the protest as a call for violence. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli war cabinet
  - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz agree to form an emergency government during the war. (BBC News)
2023 Slovak parliamentary election
- Smer leader Robert Fico agrees to form a coalition government with the left-wing Hlas and ultranationalist Slovak National Party, paving the way for Fico to become Prime Minister of Slovakia for a fourth time. (Euronews)
October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
- Republicans in the U.S. House nominate Steve Scalise to replace Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. (Reuters)