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August 2024 Deir el-Balah attacks. Eighteen people from the same family are killed in an airstrike in the town of Az-Zawayda in the Gaza Strip. Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war. Two senior Hamas militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
August 17 is the 229th day of the year ... "Historical Events on August 17". OnThisDay.com. This page was last edited on 28 December 2024, at 18:19 ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russian invasion of Ukraine. Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War. The U.S. approves the transfer of F-16 Fighting Falcons to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands after training for Ukrainian Air Force pilots is completed.
August 2022 Kabul mosque bombing. Twenty-one people are killed and 33 others are injured by a mosque bombing in Kabul. Business and economy. 2021–2022 inflation surge. Inflation in the United Kingdom increases to 10.1%, the highest level since February 1982, due to increasing fuel and food prices. (The Guardian) Disasters and accidents
Events 1807 – Robert Fulton 's first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River , inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 1862 – Indian Wars : The Lakota ( Sioux ) Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River .
The Japanese government extends the existing state of emergency in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba, and also expands it to seven other prefectures from August 20 to September 12. (The Japan Times) COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
Disasters and accidents 2020 Sri Lankan blackouts Electrical blackouts in Sri Lanka began nationwide due to a transmission technical failure at the Kerawalapitiya Grid-Sub station. (Daily News) Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in Europe COVID-19 pandemic in Spain The Basque Country declares a sanitary emergency for the second time since the start of the pandemic, but ...
17 August 2019 Kabul bombing 63 people are killed and 182 wounded in a suicide attack at a wedding party in Kabul , Afghanistan. The attacker set off explosives among the invitees.