Portal:Current events/2024 May 6

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Israel tells civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Rafah ahead of a planned ground invasion. (BBC News) (The Guardian)
  • Hamas states that it has accepted a ceasefire proposal negotiated by Egypt and Qatar. Israel rejects the proposal, claiming that the deal does not meet its "core demands", but confirms that it will continue negotiations in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters) (AP)
• 2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Two IDF soldiers of the 98th Paratroopers Division's 655th Battalion were killed in a Hezbollah drone strike near Metula, northern Israel, bringing the IDF death toll of the conflict start to 18.(Times of Israel) and 30 rockets are fired at Kidmat Tzvi, Golan Heights, (Haaretz) **Three injured in IDF strikes on 15 Radwan targets including a factory in al-Lwaiza and a Hezbollah compound in Sefri, near Baalbek in southern Lebanon.[(The Times of Israel).
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Six people are killed and 35 others are injured in Ukrainian drone attacks in Belgorod Oblast, Russia. (The Moscow Times)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
    • The Turkish Air Force carries out airstrikes on Iraqi Kurdistan, reportedly killing 16 PKK insurgents. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• The 2024 Met Gala takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with the theme "The Garden of Time", celebrating the Met's exhibit Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. (Vanity Fair)
• The 2024 Pulitzer Prize ceremony is held, with 16 awards in Journalism and 10 in Letters, Drama, & Music. (NPR)

Business and economy

• Steward Health Care, a for-profit hospital chain in the United States, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (CBS News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
  • The death toll from the ongoing heavy flooding in southern Brazil increases to 85. (Reuters)
• An under construction apartment building collapses in George, South Africa, killing 34 people and injuring 16 others. (AP)
• Five workers are killed and another is critically injured while carrying out maintenance work on a wastewater lifting tank in Palermo, Italy. (Palermo Today)
• Tornado outbreak of May 6–10, 2024
  • The U.S. Storm Prediction Center issues a rare high risk convective outlook ahead of an expected significant tornado outbreak in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. (Storm Prediction Center)
  • An EF4 tornado strikes the cities of Barnsdall and Bartlesville, Oklahoma, killing one and leaving one other missing. (Washington Post)

Law and crime

• An American soldier is arrested in Russia on charges of criminal misconduct. According to US officials, the soldier was based in South Korea and had been accused of stealing from a woman. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
    • Japanese students at the University of Tokyo, Sophia University, Tama Art University, International Christian University, and Hiroshima University hold solidarity encampments. (Arab News Japan)
    • Belgian and Dutch students hold solidarity encampments and occupy parts of the Ghent University, the University of Amsterdam, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. (Reuters)
• 2024 Chadian presidential election
  • Chad holds presidential elections under its junta, contested between incumbent Mahamat Déby and Prime Minister Succès Masra. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
• 2024 Scottish National Party leadership election
  • John Swinney is elected leader of the Scottish National Party following the resignation of First Minister Humza Yousaf. (The Guardian)