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Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war, Red Sea crisis
- A Palau-flagged cargo ship en route to Egypt is set on fire after being hit by an anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations. No casualties are reported. (AP)
- Forty people are killed and 100 others are injured in Israeli airstrikes against residential buildings in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. (Al Jazeera)
- Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war, Red Sea crisis
- One Israeli is killed and 11 others are seriously injured in a shooting attack by three Palestinians near Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank. Two gunmen are killed by Israeli soldiers, while a third is injured and arrested. (The National News) (Times of Israel)
- Israel–Hamas war
- War in Sudan
- The World Food Programme releases a report stating that more than 95% of Sudan's population cannot afford a meal a day. (Barron's)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Guangzhou bridge collapse
- Five people are killed when a barge collides with a bridge in Guangzhou, China. (Reuters) (The New York Times)
- 2024 Valencia residential building fire
- At least four people are killed and at least 14 others are injured in a fire at a 14-storey residential building in Valencia, Spain. (BBC News)
- At least eight people are killed during floods and landslides in the Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP)
Law and crime
- Murder of Kathleen Jo Henry
- An Alaskan jury finds Brian Smith guilty of the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk. (ABC News)
- A court in Panama orders the arrest of former president Ricardo Martinelli, who is under protection of the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City. (ABC News)
Science and technology
- 2024 AT&T outage
- More than 71,000 customers of US mobile carrier AT&T experience network outages. Some Verizon and T-Mobile users also report outages. (CNN) (NBC News)
- Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Odysseus successfully touches down on the Moon, near the lunar south pole, making it the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. (BBC News)
On This Day
February 23: The Emperor's Birthday in Japan (1960)
- 1854 – The Orange River Convention was signed in Bloemfontein, with the United Kingdom agreeing to recognise the independence of the Orange Free State in present-day South Africa.
- 1886 – American inventor Charles Martin Hall discovered an inexpensive method of producing aluminium (sample pictured).
- 1944 – In response to an insurgency in Chechnya, the Soviet Union began the forced deportation of the native Chechen and Ingush of North Caucasus.
- 1987 – SN 1987A, a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, was observed from Earth.
- 2021 – Caused by gang rivalries, riots in four Ecuadorian prisons resulted in the deaths of 79 inmates.