Portal:Current events/2024 October 1
Appearance
October 1, 2024
(Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli ground operation in Lebanon
- Israeli forces enter southern Lebanon as a ground operation against Hezbollah begins. (Al Jazeera) (Jerusalem Post)
- Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Israeli ground operation in Lebanon
- Syrian civil war
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles in Damascus. Some explode in the Mezzeh neighbourhood, killing three people and wounding nine more. (Al Jazeera) (AFP via Barron's) (Jerusalem Post)
- Israel's role in the Syrian civil war
- Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
- Red Sea crisis
- An explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, while a drone is intercepted over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
- Red Sea crisis
Business and economy
- 2024 United States port strike
- Over 45,000 dockworkers of thirty-six United States ports mostly along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation. (AP)
Law and crime
- Three people are killed and fifteen are injured after a stabbing attack at a supermarket in Songjiang District, Shanghai. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that he had come to Shanghai to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute." (Reuters) (BBC)
Politics and elections
- Mark Rutte is installed as 14th Secretary General of NATO succeeding Jens Stoltenberg. (Deutsche Welle)
- Shigeru Ishiba is sworn in as the 102nd prime minister of Japan. (Mainichi)
- Claudia Sheinbaum becomes the 66th President of Mexico.
- The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, turns 100 years old, becoming the first Centenarian former President in US history.