4 days ago - The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded 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.

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.

3 days ago - On October 7, 2023, Hamas led a coordinated attack on Israel by land, sea, and air from the Gaza Strip. The attack killed about 1,200 people, primarily Israeli citizens, making it the deadliest day for Israel since its independence.

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

February 27, 2025 - An investigation by the Israeli military has determined that U.S.-designated terror group Hamas was able to carry out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on Oct. 7, 2023, because the much more powerful Israeli army misjudged the militant ...

During a surprise attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, the terror organisation Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and abducted more than 200 hostages in the Gaza Strip.

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....

December 11, 2025 - Amnesty International has documented how, in the early hours of October 7, 2023, Hamas forces and other Palestinian armed groups conducted a coordinated attack targeting mostly civilian locations.

3 days ago - President Trump has launched his Board of Peace, a multinational effort to oversee maintenance of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, reconstruction of Gaza after the war started by Hamas’ massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023, and restoration of order in the coastal enclave.

April 30, 2024 - On 7 October 2023, Palestinian militants led by Hamas launched a complex coordinated attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, triggering an Israeli ground invasion combined with an aerial bombing campaign. The Hamas fighters killed around 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages, while the ...

March 6, 2026 - JERUSALEM — Early on a cool autumn morning in 2023, from a tunnel beneath the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar gave an order that sent thousands of Hamas fighters through the fence separating the territory from Israel.

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.

On Oct 7, 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, massacring civilians at the Nova music festival, firing rockets, and infiltrating towns. Over 1,200 were killed, hundreds taken hostage.

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.

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.

October 7, 2024 - On 7 October 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups killed approximately 1,200 persons in Israel, of whom at least 809 were civilians, including women, children and older persons.

March 18, 2026 - A Palestinian stands on an Israeli tank at the border fence near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists burst through the border and entered Israel, slaughtering some 1,200 people, October 7, 2023.

December 17, 2024 - These questions and answers provided an update on Amnesty International’s research into the attacks on southern Israel on 7 October 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups and their subsequent treatment of hostages. They do not cover the organization’s extensive concerns about ...

1 day 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.