Armed conflicts and attacks

Eighteen people from the same family are killed in an airstrike in the town of Az-Zawayda in the Gaza Strip. (AP) (Reuters)

• https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-08-17-2024-07e5f3d968cb09613609eb1086e26e91
• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ten-palestinians-killed-israeli-strike-central-gazas-zawayda-wafa-agency-says-2024-08-17/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Two senior Hamas militants are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-airstrike-kills-least-two-palestinians-west-bank-health-ministry-says-2024-08-17/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Ten Syrian citizens, including two children, are killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Nabatieh, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)

• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/17/at-least-six-killed-in-latest-israeli-strike-on-southern-lebanon
• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/six-killed-israeli-strike-lebanon-health-ministry-says-2024-08-17/

Armed conflicts and attacks

Hezbollah reportedly strikes the Ayelet HaShahar kibbutz in Upper Galilee, Israel, wounding two Israeli soldiers in retaliation. (Reuters)

• https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/six-killed-israeli-strike-lebanon-health-ministry-says-2024-08-17/

Law and crime

Four convicts escape in a prison break at a psychiatric hospital in Straubing, Bavaria, Germany. (DW)

• https://www.dw.com/en/germany-4-escape-criminal-pyschiatric-facility-in-bavaria/a-69970390