Hamas attack on Israel

Extracted Attributes

• Date

  2023-10-07

• Location

  Southern Israel (Gaza envelope), Israel

• Participants

  7,000 total (including 3,800 Nukhba forces and 2,200 civilians/militants)

• Total Deaths

  1,219 people (including 810 civilians and 379 security forces)

• Hostages Taken

  Approximately 250 individuals

• Rocket Barrage

  3,000 to 5,000 rockets launched within 20 minutes

• Political Recognition

  Biggest political surprise of 2023 (All-In Podcast)

Timeline

• Hamas launches 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' with a massive rocket barrage and ground incursions into southern Israel. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-10-07

• Militants breach the Gaza-Israel barrier and massacre civilians at the Nova music festival and in communities like Be'eri and Kfar Aza. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-10-07

• Approximately 250 hostages are abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-10-07

• Israel launches a large-scale military operation in Gaza in response to the attacks. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-10-07

• The All-In Podcast hosts name the Hamas attack on Israel the biggest political surprise of 2023 during their annual awards. (Source: Document 47c5a1f9-3bf9-4d68-ae85-a92717b28f78)

  2023-12-22

October 7 attacks

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 war, were the first large-scale invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In response, Israel launched a large-scale military operation in Gaza. The attacks began with a barrage of at least 4,300 rockets launched into Israel and vehicle-transported and powered paraglider incursions into Israel. Hamas militants breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking military bases and massacring civilians in 21 communities, including Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Netiv Haasara, and Alumim. According to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) report that revised the estimate on the number of attackers, 6,000 Gazans breached the border in 119 locations into Israel, including 3,800 from the elite Nukhba forces and 2,200 civilians and other militants. Additionally, the IDF report estimated 1,000 Gazans fired rockets from the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of participants on Hamas's side to 7,000. In total, 1,219 people were killed by the attacks: at least 810 civilians (including 38 children and 71 foreign nationals) and at least 379 members of the security forces. 364 civilians were killed while they were attending the Nova music festival and many more wounded. At least 14 Israeli civilians were killed by the IDF's use of the Hannibal Directive. About 250 Israeli and non-Israeli civilians and soldiers were taken as hostages to the Gaza Strip. Dozens of cases of rape and sexual assault reportedly occurred, but Hamas officials denied the involvement of their fighters. Hamas said its attack was in response to the continued Israeli occupation, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, rising Israeli settler violence, and recent escalations. The day was labelled the bloodiest in Israel's history and "the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust" by many figures and media outlets in the West, including then-US president Joe Biden. Some have made allegations that the attack was an act of genocide or a genocidal massacre against Israelis. The governments of 44 countries denounced the attack and described it as terrorism, while some Arab and Muslim-majority countries blamed Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories as the root cause of the attack.

Web Search Results

• What is Hamas and why is it fighting with Israel in Gaza? - BBC

  Hamas led the deadliest attack on Israel in its history, killing about 1,200 people, including more than 360 young people at a music festival. The unprecedented attack sent shockwaves across the country, as Hamas gunmen targeted border communities for hours and took hostages. Hamas has described the attack as a response to what it says are decades of Israeli oppression, the killings of Palestinians and years-long blockade of the Gaza Strip. [...] ## What was Israel's response to Hamas's attacks? Israel launched a massive military offensive against Hamas in Gaza following the 7 October attack. It began with air strikes and was followed by a ground invasion. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's aims included destroying Hamas, returning the hostages and making sure Israel cannot be threatened in future. [...] How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October ## Who are Hamas's leaders? When Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, the group's main leader was Ismail Haniyeh. He was based in Qatar, where the group has its political headquarters. Haniyeh was assassinated while visiting the Iranian capital, Tehran, in July 2024, in an attack which Israel said it carried out. He was replaced by Yahya Sinwar, who had been leader of Hamas in Gaza since 2017.

• Israel and Hamas Conflict In Brief: Overview, U.S. Policy, and ...

  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 attacks on that day from the Gaza Strip into Israel (see Figure 1). The nature and extent of the October 7 assault stunned Israelis and many others, and includes allegations of sexual violence.1 Iran has long provided material support to Hamas, but the Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed in February 2024 that [...] In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas-led October 7 attacks against Israel, President Biden announced that his Administration would surge "additional military assistance, including ammunition and interceptors to replenish Iron Dome" so that "Israel does not run out of these critical assets to defend its cities and its citizens."66 (See Table 1 for recent U.S. aid to Israel.) President Biden's order resulted in (as of August 2024) over 500 aircraft deliveries and 107 sea shipments to Israel of [...] | After a Year of War: Key Information Casualties and hostages. Reportedly, as of October 2, 2024, more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals (including 46 U.S. citizens in Israel) had been killed as a result of the October 7 attacks, more than 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, and at least 346 Israeli soldiers have died in battle since Israel's military began ground operations in Gaza.12 , ") Israel claims it has killed around 17,000 of Hamas's some 25,000-30,000 fighters,

• Gaza war - Wikipedia

  The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. 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. Since the start of the Israeli offensive that followed, over 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, almost half of them women and children, and more than [...] Hamas officials stated that the attack was a response to the Israeli occupation, blockade of the Gaza Strip, desecration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, restrictions on the movement of Palestinians, and imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians, whom Hamas sought to release by taking Israeli hostages. Numerous commentators have identified the broader context of Israeli occupation as a cause of the war. The Associated Press wrote that Palestinians are "in [...] On the morning of 7 October 2023, during the Jewish holidays of Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret on Shabbat, Hamas announced the start of "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood", firing between 3,000 and 5,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel within a span of 20 minutes, killing at least five people. In the evening, Hamas launched another barrage of 150 rockets. Simultaneously, around 3,000 Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from Gaza using trucks, motorcycles, bulldozers, speedboats, and

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