Portal:Current events/2023 April 7

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Tel Aviv car-ramming
    • An Italian tourist is killed and six Britons and Italians are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. The perpetrator is shot dead by police. (BBC News)
  • Murders of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee
    • Three British Israelis are killed in a drive-by shooting near the Hamra settlement in the West Bank. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Battle of Bakhmut
    • The UK defence ministry says that Russian forces have captured the Bakhmutka river west banks, endangering Ukrainian supply lines. (Reuters)
• Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Twenty people are killed after Islamic State members storm a village in Musandaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (WION)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • Pakistan arrests the founder of the Baloch Nationalist Army in the country's southwest. (AP via The Washington Post)

Law and crime

• Murder of Luca Attanasio
  • A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sentences six men to life in prison for the assassination of Italian envoy Luca Attanasio in February 2021. (Reuters)
• After being arrested in Russia, American journalist Evan Gershkovich is charged with espionage. (Tagesschau)