Portal:Current events/2024 April 21
April 21, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Twenty-two people are killed, including 18 children, in overnight Israeli strikes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, according to local health officials. (AP)
- Bombing of the Gaza Strip
- Israel–Hamas war
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Fox Hill Supercross race crash
- A car veers off the track during the international Fox Hill Supercross motor race in Diyatalawa, Sri Lanka, and crashes into a group of spectators, killing seven people and injuring 21 others. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Ecuadorian constitutional referendum
- Ecuadorians vote in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes. (Al Jazeera)
- 2024 Maldivian parliamentary election
- Maldivians elect the members of the parliament. (The Hindu)
- 2024 North Kosovo referendum
- A referendum on whether to remove ethnic Albanian mayors from office in Serb-majority North Kosovo is boycotted by most Serbs, who demand that the mayors resign. (Reuters)
- 2024 Basque regional election
- Basques in Spain elect the members of the Basque Parliament. (Reuters)