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IN this post we are going to learn most important IR current affairs those help you in BPSC Prelims Upcoming Exam2024

• Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a brutal surprise attack into Israel. IDF’s – “Operation Swords of Iron” – campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
• Israel – Lebanon(north), Syria(northeast), Jordan (east), Red Sea(south),Egypt(southwest), Mediterranean Sea (west), and Palestinian territories – theWest Bank(east) and Gaza Strip(southwest)

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Places in News Bpsc Prelims

• GAZA STRIP
• WEST BANK
• JERUSALEM
• SINAI PENINSULA
• RAFAH CROSSING –
• GOLAN HEIGHTS
• NEGEV DESERT
• EILAT PORT – GULF OF AQABA – ISRAEL’S ONLY PORT ON RED SEA
• HAIFA PORT

Israel Air Defence & Anti – Missile systems

• -Iron Dome(short range), David’s Sling,
• Arrow 2 and 3 systems, Iron Beam(Laser weapon system)

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Sahel Region

• Semi-arid region; Transitional zone between Sahara desert (north) & savannas (south).
• Countries – Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea
• Operation Barkhane – counter terrorism operation in Sahel region by France

Darfur – (water crisis/violence in El-Fasher region), Khartoum & Kordofan)

Khartoum – Lies on Confluence of Blue Nile (Lake Tana – Ethiopia) and White Nile (Lake Victoria) river

Tanzania

IIT Madras first international campus in Zanzibar

Botswana

Botswana -(hundreds of elephants have died) Border – Landlocked country ; Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Largest Elephant population in the world

Lakes of Africa

● Lake Tana: Ethiopia
● Lake Albert: Congo & Uganda
● Lake Turkana: Kenya (some part in Ethiopia)
● Lake Nyasa: Malawi, Tanzania &
Mozambique
● Lake Victoria: Tanzania & Uganda bordering
Kenya Lake Tanganyika: Tanzania, DRC,
Burundi & Zambia
● Lake Chad: Junction of Chad, Cameroon,
Nigeria & Niger
● Lake Nasser: Reservoir in South Egypt &
north Sudan; one of largest man made lakes in the
world

Horn of Africa

Horn of Africa – Flood + Food Crisis (SEED (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti)
countries)

Lake Titicaca

Russia and Ukraine

-Dnieper/Dnipro river
-Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Region) – Nuclear Plant
● Avdiivka City(Ukraine) – Captured by
Russia
● Novorossiysk Port- Near Kerch Strait
(Russia) – Attacked by Ukraine
● Feodosia’s port in Crimea, Ukraine – Attacked
by Ukraine
● Izmail Sea Commercial Port(Ukraine) –
Black Sea – attacked by russian drones
● Sulina channel (Romania) – Danube river –
Black Sea grain trade discontinued and
attacks by Russia .

1. Constanta Port (On Sulina Channel)
2. Connects black Sea with the ports of ukraine.
3. Chilia Channel and St.George channel Danube river- the second longest river in Europe
   after the Volga Wagner Group (Russia funded() – by Prigozhin Port of Sevastopol (Crimea)
   Kerch strait- Crimean Bridge (connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov)

Japan

Kuril island Dispute – Russia vs Japan

Azerbaijan and Armenia

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