24 July 2006 (Monday)
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah announces in an interview with Al-Jazeera that he discussed the abduction of the two Israeli soldiers with Lebanese political leaders before the attack occurred. (Memri)
- Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, warns Israel over its actions in Lebanon. (BBC)
- Iraq War:
- Saddam Hussein, 69, the deposed former Iraqi President, has been force-fed in a Baghdad hospital through a tube after 16 days of hunger strike. (Reuters), (BBC)
- Two powerful bombs in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood kill at least 66. (Washington Post)
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