October 7 attacks

1 week ago - The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups in 2023, during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The attacks, which began the ongoing Gaza ...

October 14, 2025 - Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.

February 24, 2025 - Using commercial quadcopter drones, Hamas dropped explosives onto the observation towers, disrupting Israel’s sensors, communications, and weapons systems—a creative use of drones, which are also being used in new ways by Russian and Ukrainian forces. Hamas fighters also blew holes in the border fence with explosives and then used bulldozers to widen the gaps to allow vehicles to pass through. Figure 7: Footage from Drone Attacks on Israeli Border Fence on October 7, 2023

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas (a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, or FTO), which led an attack that day from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

October 29, 2024 - About a year ago, I met Rotem Sharabi, the niece of Yossi and Eli Sharabi — brothers who were abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Yossi was murdered in captivity, and his body is still held in Gaza.

2 hours ago - The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas led a surprise attack on Israel, in which 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

April 9, 2025 - Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups gave the attack the name “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.” · The attacks began at about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, October 7, 2023, with a barrage of thousands of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel.

1 week ago - The target of the attack was Raed ... Saad helped plan the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel that ignited the two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli military said....

November 14, 2023 - The Israel-Hamas War is a war between Israel and Palestinian militants, especially Hamas, that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a land, sea, and air assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza did more than shift public opinion; they ripped open a dangerous chasm between Arab societies and their leaders.

1 day ago - On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 hostages back to Gaza.

GENEVA – Marking the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli attack against the Palestinian population in Gaza that followed and consequent expansion of violence to the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory and other countries in the region...

1 day ago - In response, the State Department said it had called on Israel to investigate and would continue to engage with officials there until there was "appropriate accountability." "Far too many journalists and other civilians have been killed and injured since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks," the letter read.

August 8, 2025 - While the events of October 7th ... them briefly. On October 7th 2023, thousands of armed Hamas terrorists tore down large parts of the Gaza security perimeter and invaded southern Israel....

October 7, 2024 - Hamas claimed it fired 5,000 rockets in a 20-minute initial barrage, sending projectiles up to 80 kilometres into Israeli territory. Israel's military said 2,500 rockets were fired.

4 days ago - Eyal Zamir appointed a panel of experts to investigate the military’s failed handling of intelligence reports received since 2018, which outlined Hamas’s intent to launch a wide-scale attack against Israel — a topic not included in the army’s initial probes into the October 7, 2023, onslaught.

2 weeks ago - The first phase of US president Donald Trump's 20-point plan for peace in the region required the return of all 20 living and 28 dead hostages taken in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.