Portal:Current events/2025 April 1

April 1, 2025 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Middle Eastern crisis
- Gaza war
  - Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    - UNICEF reports that over 332 children have been killed and 609 injured by the new Israeli military offensive across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of the war after the breakdown of the 2025 ceasefire. (BBC News) (UNICEF)
- Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  - 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement
    - Four people are killed, including Hassan Bdeir, a high-ranking Hezbollah official, and seven others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on a building in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- Red Sea crisis
  - March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen
    - The Houthis claim that they shot down a U.S. military-operated MQ-9 Reaper drone in Marib Governorate, Yemen. (AP)
    - U.S. missile strikes on Hodeidah, Yemen, hit a water management facility, killing at least four people, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah network. (Al Jazeera)
    - The U.S. announces it is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group, the USS Carl Vinson group, to the region. (Al Jazeera)
Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  - The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured Rozlyv [uk] in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya)

Disasters and accidents

2023–2025 Sundhnúkur eruptions
- Seismic activity increases near Grindavík, Iceland, with the Icelandic Meteorological Office reporting that a volcanic eruption has occurred and a earthquake is being registered. People visiting the Blue Lagoon are evacuated rapidly. (The Watchers)
2025 Putra Heights pipeline fire
- At least 305 people are injured after a gas pipeline owned by Petronas explodes and ignites a fire in Putra Heights, Selangor, Malaysia. (Malay Mail)
A small airplane crashes into a lake in Os near Bergen, Norway, killing the two people onboard. (Sunnmørsposten)

International relations

Cross-strait relations
- The Chinese PLA Navy and Air Force conduct large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. At least 19 Chinese warships are deployed, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, marking its closest ever approach to the island. (The Guardian) (Financial Times)

Politics and elections

Science and technology

Private spaceflight
- SpaceX successfully launches four humans into orbit over Earth’s poles for the first time for the human spaceflight mission Fram2. The journey will last three to five days. (The New York Times)