Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • An Israeli Air Force airstrike kills two people and injures six others in Hanine, Lebanon. (Reuters)
  • Nasser Hospital mass graves, Nasser Hospital siege
    • United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk calls for an international investigation after hundreds of bodies are discovered in mass graves near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Lumut mid-air collision
  • Two Royal Malaysian Navy helicopters collide in mid-air during a rehearsal parade in Lumut, Malaysia, killing all ten people on board. (CNA)
• English Channel migrant crossings
  • Five migrants drown while attempting to cross the English Channel and 49 others are rescued. (Reuters)
• At least 21 migrants die after their boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti. (Reuters)
• A Douglas DC-4 crashes into the Tanana River in Alaska, United States, shortly after takeoff from Fairbanks, killing two people on board. (Anchorage Daily News)

International relations

• International recognition of the State of Palestine, International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
  • Jamaica becomes the 140th UN member state to recognize the State of Palestine. (Jamaica Observer)
• North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • North Korea claims that it tested a new command-and-control system in a simulated nuclear counterstrike. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak announces that he plans to increase the United Kingdom's defence budget to 2.5% of its GDP by 2030, totaling around £85 billion. (The Guardian) (Reuters)

April 24: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (1915); Administrative Professionals Day in various countries (2024)

• 1837 – A fire broke out in Surat, India, which went on to destroy about three-fourths of the city.
• 1916 – Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.
• 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope (pictured) was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.
• 1993 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring forty-four others, and causing damage that cost to repair.