Portal:Current events/2024 December 26
December 26, 2024 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Killing of journalists in the Israel–Hamas war
- Five journalists are killed in an Israeli airstrike on their vehicle near a hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah Governorate, Gaza. (CNN)
- Winter of 2024–25 in the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip evacuations
- Gaza Strip doctors report that three infants died due to hypothermia from inadequate shelter in displacement camps amid decreasing winter temperatures. (Al Jazeera)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Killing of journalists in the Israel–Hamas war
- Red Sea crisis
- December 2024 Israeli airstrikes in Yemen
- Israel carries out a series of airstrikes between Sanaa and Hodeidah in Yemen, hitting a number of facilities, including Sanaa International Airport, killing at least three people and wounding eleven more. (Al Jazeera)
- December 2024 Israeli airstrikes in Yemen
- Somali Civil War
- Al-Shabaab confirms the death of the militant's Head of Regions commander Mohamed Mire Jama previously designated as a terrorist via the U.S. and conducted drone strike by AFRICOM in the vicinity of Kunyo Baroow town in a Lower Shabelle region of Hirshabelle State, Somalia. (Idil News)(Garowe Online)(Long WaR Journal)
Business and economy
- Economy of the United Kingdom
- The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics determines that the UK economy showed no growth in the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year, following downward revisions. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- Hadsel bus accident
- A bus with 58 people on board plunges into the water after a critical accident in Hadsel Municipality, Norway. At least three people are killed and four injured. (BBC) (NRK)
Health and environment
- 2024 Lobitos oil spill
- The Government of Peru declares a 90-day environmental emergency for a northern coastal area of Peru due to an oil spill caused by state-owned oil company Petroperú. (Reuters)
International relations
- 2024 Baltic Sea submarine cable disruptions, Finland–Russia relations
- Finnish border guards and police detain a Russian vessel suspected of damaging the Estlink-2 submarine power cable. (AP)
Law and crime
- A Cambodian court sentences the president of the opposition Nation Power Party Sun Chanthy to two years in prison and bans him from elections for inciting civil disorder. (Reuters)