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July 20, 2024 (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - At least 39 Palestinians are killed and 54 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) (Anadolu Agency)
Red Sea crisis
- 2024 Israeli strikes on Yemen
  - In response to the prior day's Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv, Israeli airstrikes hit oil refineries and power stations in the Yemeni port of Al Hudaydah, killing six people and injuring over eighty others. (Al Jazeera)
2024 Iran–Israel conflict, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- Four civilians injured in an IDF strike on a Hezbollah ammunition depot in south Lebanon. (Reuters)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Southern Ukraine campaign
  - Five people, including a child, are killed in Russian missile strikes on Mykolaiv and Kherson, Ukraine. (Euronews) (The Moscow Times)
Insurgency in the Maghreb
- Twelve soldiers are killed during an attack by JNIM gunmen against a military base in Kpékankandi, Togo. Forty attackers are neutralized. (LSi)
2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- The death toll from the ongoing protests in Bangladesh increases to 110 people. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

2024 China floods
- At least 12 people are killed and 31 others are missing when a bridge collapses due to flash flooding in Zhashui County, Shaanxi, China. (CNN)
At least 16 people are killed and 14 others are injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger bus on a highway between Patacamaya, Bolivia, and Tambo Quemado, Chile. (RTÉ)

Politics and elections

The government of Equatorial Guinea suspends internet and telephone services on the separatist island of Annobón, with the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization condemning the suspension. (Agencia NOVA)