Portal:Current events/2024 October 5
October 5, 2024 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Hamas says that an Israeli strike killed Saeed Atallah, a leader in the Al-Qassam Brigades, along with three family members in a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Reuters)
- September 2024 Lebanon strikes
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian forces claim that they captured the village of Bazhane Druhe in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Economic Times)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
- Indian police claim that 31 Naxalite rebels were killed in a shootout with Indian soldiers in the Abujhmad forest in Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- English Channel migrant crossings
- Four people, including a child, are killed in two separate incidents while attempting to cross the English Channel in boats. (BBC News)