March 8, 2024 (Friday)
Disasters and accidents
- Israel–Hamas war
- Gaza humanitarian crisis, Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- Five people are killed when an aid package airdropped from a C-17 aircraft into the Gaza Strip fails to deploy its parachute and subsequently crushes them. (BBC News)
- Gaza humanitarian crisis, Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
Law and crime
- Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández is found guilty of drug trafficking charges in a federal court in New York, United States. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 United States presidential election
- 2024 Turkish local elections
- Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that the upcoming local elections in Turkey will be his last election as president as he will not run in the upcoming 2028 presidential election, bringing an end to his presidency. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
- 2024 United Kingdom local elections
- Brenda Dacres is elected Mayor of Lewisham, becoming the first black woman directly elected mayor in England. (BBC News)
- A UN fact-finding mission probe finds that the government of Iran committed violations amounting to crimes against humanity during the Mahsa Amini protests. (Times of India)