Portal:Current events/2024 June 30

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • Rafah offensive
      • At least six Palestinians are killed in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli tanks re-enter Shuja'iyya and parts of northern Gaza, displacing more than 60,000 people. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least one person is killed and ten others are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits a postal sorting hub in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Bloomberg)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • The Russian Defence Ministry says that its forces have taken the villages of Spirne and Novooleksandrivka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast. (Reuters)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • M23 rebels take control of Kirumba, the largest town in Lubero Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as they continue north. (VOA)

Arts and culture

• The American film Inside Out 2 surpasses $1 billion in worldwide box office earnings in less than three weeks, the fastest of any animated film in history. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • At least four people are killed and two others are missing after landslides and torrential floods in Ticino and Valais, Switzerland. (Reuters)
• A Chinese Tianlong-3 rocket stage is accidentally launched during a static fire test in Gongyi, Henan, China, causing it to crash and explode. No casualties are reported. (CNN)
• A propane tank explosion at a restaurant in Izmir, Turkey, kills five people and injures 63 others. (AP)

Health and environment

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Beryl undergoes rapid intensification and strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane, becoming the earliest Category 4 Atlantic hurricane on record. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French legislative election
  • 2024 French protests against the far-right
    • Thousands of left-wing protesters gather in cities across France to protest the National Rally's lead in election polls, while showing support for the New Popular Front left-wing alliance. (France 24) (Le Figaro)
  • French citizens vote in the first round of legislative elections for the 17th National Assembly of the Fifth French Republic. (AP)
• 2024 Uruguayan presidential primaries
  • Uruguayans vote to elect the presidential candidates for all political parties that are running in the general election on 27 October. (Reuters)
• Conscription of yeshiva students
  • Thousands of Haredi Jewish men protest in Jerusalem, Israel, against a recent Supreme Court ruling that ordered the conscription of Haredi yeshiva students, clashing with Israel Police. (AP)
• The Bulgarian Orthodox Church elects Metropolitan Daniel of Vidin, a member of the pro-Russian faction among the church's senior clergy, as Patriarch of All Bulgaria. (AP)

Sports

• 2024 FIVB Men's Volleyball Nations League
  • France win their second Volleyball Nations League title after defeating Japan in four sets in the final at Atlas Arena in Łódź, Poland. (One Sports)