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7 October 2023 attack on Israel

2023 attack on Israel by Hamas

On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched armed attacks from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel. It was the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Palestine War. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups named the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (or Deluge; Arabic: عملية طوفان الأقصى, romanized: ʿamaliyyat ṭūfān al-ʾAqṣā, usually romanised as "Tufan Al-Aqsa" or "Toofan Al-Aqsa"),[1] while in Israel they are known as Black Saturday (Hebrew: השבת השחורה)[2] or the Simchat Torah Massacre (הטבח בשמחת תורה),[3] and internationally as the 7 October attack.[4][5][6] The attacks started the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.

Map of the attacks on 7–8 October

The attacks began early on 7 October with a launch of at least 3,000 rockets launched against Israel.[7][8] Hamas fighters entered the Gaza–Israel barrier, attacking military bases and killing civilians in 21 communities. 364 civilians were killed and many more wounded while attending a music festival.[9][10]

As of November 2023, the IDF said that about 3,000 terrorists invaded southern Israel.[11] In total the attackers killed 1,139 people: 695 Israeli civilians (including 38 children),[12] 71 foreign nationals, and 373 members of the security forces.[13] About 250 Israeli civilians and soldiers were taken as hostages to the Gaza Strip, including 30 children.[14][15][16][17] The Hamas attacking forces massively used rape as a weapon against Israeli residents and kidnapped hostages.[18][19]

Attack locations

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Attack Location Israelis and foreign nationals Destruction in the area Claimed responsibility References
Name Maps Pop.[A] Total killed Civilians killed [B] Combatants killed[C] Hostages and POWs
7 October attacks on Israel Gaza Envelope and Southern Israel total pop. = total = total = total = total = Gaza–Israel barrier + military bases + kibbutzim + moshav [en] [23][24]
Attack on Erez crossing Military: Erez crossing crossing allegedly made unusable. [25][26][27]
Battle of Sderot [en] Police station in Sderot computer server and connections[D] [28][29][30]
Battle of Sderot [en] The town of Sderot 25,138 15+ [31]
Re'im music festival massacre Music festival near Re'im ~3500[E] 357+ 40 cars [34][35][36]
Battle of Re'im Military: Re'im headquarters[F] 416 (nearby) [37][38][39]
Be'eri massacre Kibbutz Be'eri 1,018 117+ Surveillance tower[40] [41]
Nahal Oz attack [en] Military: Nahal Oz lookout base 100+ [42] 66[43] none 15+ Base set on fire. [44]
Kibbutz Nahal Oz 385 12+ [45]
Kfar Aza massacre Kibbutz Kfar Aza 712 52+ Weeapons tower destroyed with a drone[40] [46][47]
Battle of Zikim Military: Zikim Training Base 7[G] [49][48]
Zikim attack Kibbutz Zikim 734
Zikim Beach massacre [en] Zikim Beach 35+ 19 [50][51]
Nir Oz massacre Kibbutz Nir Oz 394 27+ [H] [52]
Psyduck music festival massacre Music festival between Nir Oz and Nirim ~100[I] 17 [53]
Nirim attack Kibbutz Nirim 372 5+ [54][55]
Netiv HaAsara massacre Moshav Netiv HaAsara 21+ [56][57]
Alumim massacre Kibbutz Alumim 487 19+ [58][59]
Kissufim massacre Kibbutz Kissufim 233 16+ [60][61]
Holit massacre Kibbutz Holit 163 13+ [62]
Ein HaShlosha attack Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha 396 5+ [63]
Nir Yitzhak attack Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak 631 5+ [63]
Defence of Nir Am Kibbutz Nir Am 553 none none none none
Battle of Ofakim  [he; ru; de; en] The town of Ofakim 27,771 47

table footnotes:

  1. ↑ Population data from 2017 unless otherwise stated.[20][21]
  2. ↑ Most of the civilian areas on the Israeli side of the Gaza border had lightly armed volunteer security teams.[22]
  3. ↑ Usually includes only on duty police, military, and other professional armed security forces.
  4. ↑ The militants destroyed the computer system and communications in the Sderot police station, which disabled emergency services communications for the region.[28][29][30]
  5. ↑ Attendance at the festival was reported to be 3,500 but figures vary.[32] After the attack, relatives searching for missing loved ones said more than one thousand were at the event at the time of the attack.[33] Some festival attendees estimated 3,000–4,000 people.[33]
  6. ↑ Headquarters of the Gaza Division.[37]
  7. ↑ Six officers and one recruit were killed in the fighting before the militants withdrew.[48]
  8. ↑ including the Bibas family
  9. ↑ Approximately 100 people took part in the event.[53]

References

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  1. ↑ From the United Nations:
    • United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (9 October 2023). "Fact Sheet: Israel and Palestine Conflict (9 October 2023)" (Press release). ReliefWeb. United Nations (UN). Archived from the original on 13 October 2023. Retrieved 13 October 2023. On Saturday, 7 October — a Jewish sabbath day, the end of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot, and a day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War — Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood, a coordinated assault consisting of land and air attacks into multiple border areas of Israel.
    • United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) (7 October 2023). "UNRWA Situation Report #1 on the Situation in the Gaza Strip" (Situation Report). United Nations. Archived from the original on 16 October 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2023. At 06:30 on the morning of 7 October 2023, Hamas launched "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" with more than 5,000 rockets reportedly fired towards Israel from multiple locations in Gaza, as well as ground operation into Israel.
    • United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (20 October 2023). "Fact Sheet: Israel and Palestine Conflict (19 October 2023)" (Press release). ReliefWeb. United Nations. Archived from the original on 22 October 2023. Retrieved 22 October 2023. On Saturday, 7 October...Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood, a coordinated assault consisting of land and air attacks into multiple border areas of Israel.
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  4. ↑ "Biden Energy Adviser to Discuss Lebanon Border Issues on Israel Trip". Asharq Al-Awsat. 20 November 2023. Archived from the original on 28 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023. In the months before the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants who run the Gaza Strip, Hochstein said the United States was exploring the possibility of resolving the longstanding border dispute between Lebanon and Israel.
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    At least seven women who were killed were also raped in the attack, according to Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, a legal scholar and international women's rights advocate, from her examination of evidence so far. The New York Times and NBC have both identified more than 30 killed women and girls whose bodies bear signs of abuse, such as bloodied genitals and missing clothes, and according to the Israeli welfare ministry, five women and one man have come forward seeking help for sexual abuse over the past few months.
  19. ↑ Gettleman, Jeffrey; Schwartz, Anat; Sella, Adam; Shaar-Yashuv, Avishag (28 December 2023). "'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
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  22. ↑ Tzuri, Matan (12 October 2023). "Untrained, lacking proper arms, local security teams defended their Gaza border homes". Ynetnews. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
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