April 7, 2023 (Friday)
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)
- 2023 Tel Aviv car-ramming
- 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)
- Battle of Bakhmut
- 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)