Israel's navy intercepted nearly half of a fresh humanitarian flotilla attempting to break its blockade of the Gaza Strip, the first such interception since Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire in September 2025, The Times of Israel reported on April 30. Meanwhile, Lebanon's Hezbollah wounded 12 Israeli troops in northern Israel in a drone attack on an armored personnel carrier, as routine ceasefire violations continued to take place across the Lebanon-Israel border.

Reuters reported that new Israeli control maps, provided to aid groups in mid-March but only publicly revealed now, showed that the Israeli military had brought around 11% more of Gaza's territory under its control and added an "orange" line that required aid groups to coordinate activities in Gaza with the Israeli military authority COGAT. Israel has been preparing for a potential new invasion of Gaza's remaining Hamas-held territory since earlier in 2026, though such an operation has awaited a U.S. greenlight and a resolution of the Iran and Lebanon conflicts.