February 21, 2025

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Gaza war
  • 2025 Gaza war ceasefire, Gaza war hostage crisis
    • Israel says that forensic testing revealed one of the bodies returned by Hamas yesterday does not match with Shiri Bibas nor with any other hostages. Her sons Ariel and Kfir, as well as Oded Lifshitz, were all positively identified. Israel accuses Hamas of violating the ceasefire and demands the return of her body along with the other remaining hostages. (BBC News)
    • Hamas claim that Shiri’s body was “mistakenly mixed” with others who were killed and buried under the rubble in Gaza. (Al Arabiya)

International relations

• Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan relations
  • Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan sign a agreement to delimitate their border, solving a decades-old border dispute that had sparked clashes between different ethnic groups that had killed over a hundred people. (Trend) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• 2024 South Korean martial law crisis
  • South Korean police file a case against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for obstructing his arrest warrant. (Reuters)
• Indonesia Gelap
  • Demonstrations continue against the government in several cities in Indonesia. Nine students have been arrested and two are injured, along with four injured policemen and two parliament members. (Tempo) (Barron’s)
• Stabbing of Salman Rushdie
  • Hadi Matar is found guilty by a New York jury of attempted murder and assault for his stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie in 2022. (ABC News)
• One person is seriously injured in a stabbing attack at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany. (AP News)

Science and technology

• The European Space Agency announces that the chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 has decreased to 1.5% (1-in-67), and is likely to decrease further to less than 1%. (Nature)