All news: Tuesday 1 April 2025

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.

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.

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.

March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen

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.

March 2025 United States attacks in Yemen

The U.S. announces it is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group, the USS Carl Vinson group, to the region.

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.

2025 Gujarat factory fire

At least 21 people are killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in Deesa, Gujarat, India.

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.

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.

A small airplane crashes into a lake in Os near Bergen, Norway, killing the two people onboard.

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.

Cory Booker's marathon speech

U.S. Senator Cory Booker delivers the longest speech in United States Senate history, breaking the previous record set by Strom Thurmond in 1957.

Denise Bronzetti and Italo Righi are sworn in as the new Captains Regent of San Marino.

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.