2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel

2023 military operation into Israel and massacre

This article is about the 7 October operation into Israel by Hamas. For the war, see Israel–Hamas war. For other attacks by Hamas during the war, see List of engagements during the Israel–Hamas war.

2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel

Part of the Israel–Hamas war

Satellite view of widespread fires in Israel around the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023.[6]
| Date| 7–8 October 2023[1]

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Location|

Gaza envelope, Southern District, Israel

Belligerents

* Hamas[1]
* Palestinian Islamic Jihad
* Popular Resistance Committees[2]
* Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine[3]
* Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine[4][5]
* al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades[2]
* Palestinian Freedom Movement[2]
* Palestinian Mujahideen Movement[2]

|  Israel[1]
Units involved

Palestinian Joint Operations Room

* Al-Qassam Brigades
* Al-Nukhba Force
* Al-Quds Brigades[7]
* Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades[2]
* Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades[8]
* National Resistance Brigades[5]
* Al-Ansar Brigades[2]
* Mujahideen Brigades[2]

Israel Defense Forces

* Golani Brigade[9]
* 13th Battalion
* 51st Battalion
* Nahal Brigade[10]
* Israel Police[11]
* Shin Bet[11]
* Israeli armed citizens[12][13]

Strength
Al-Qassam Brigades: ~3,000 entered Israel [a]|  Israeli Defence Forces: ~750–1,500[b]
Casualties and losses

* At least 1,000 militants killed[c]
* ~200 militants captured[d]

* 1,139 killed[e]

* 766 civilians,[f] including 36 children[g]
* 373 security forces[17]

* 3,400 civilians and soldiers wounded[18]
* 247 civilians and soldiers taken captive[19]
* 5 missing[17]

* v
* t
* e

Israel–Hamas war

* Timeline
* Outline

Engagements

* Hamas-led attack on Israel

* Israeli female tank crew fight
* Re'im
* Sderot
* Sufa
* Israel–Hezbollah conflict
* Timeline
* Israeli invasion of Gaza
* Beit Hanoun
* Gaza City
* Jabalia
* Khan Yunis
* Shuja'iyya ambush
* Rafah offensive
* Israeli incursions in the West Bank

Attacks

* Hamas-led attack on Israel

* Re'im music festival
* Killing of Shani Louk
* Netiv HaAsara
* Alumim
* Be'eri
* Holit
* Kfar Aza
* Kissufim
* Nahal Oz
* Netiv HaAsara
* Nir Oz
* Nir Yitzhak
* Nirim
* Zikim
* Refugee camps
* Jabalia
* 31 October
* Al-Fakhoora school
* Al-Shati
* Al-Maghazi
* Schools
* Al-Maghazi
* Al-Falah
* Palestinians evacuating Gaza
* Health facilities
* Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
* Al-Shifa Hospital
* Ambulance
* Church of Saint Porphyrius
* Sabra mosque
* Attack on journalists in Lebanon
* Friendly fire
* IDF killing of hostages in Shuja'iyya

Spillover

* Red Sea crisis
* Operation Prosperity Guardian
* Attacks on the MV Maersk Hangzhou
* 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
* Marlin Luanda missile strike
* Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan
* Iranian airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
* Tower 22 drone attack
* Assassination of Saleh al-Arouri

See also

* Gaza humanitarian crisis
* Healthcare collapse
* Children
* Premature babies
* Famine
* Hostage crisis
* Prisoner exchange
* Israeli blockade of Gaza
* War crimes
* Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel
* Wider regional conflict
* Ceasefire
* Antisemitism
* Anti-Palestinianism
* Mass detentions
* Protests
* South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention)
* Qatar mediation of the Israel–Hamas war

On 7 October 2023, the paramilitary wings of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PRC, PFLP and DFLP launched a series of coordinated armed incursions into the Gaza envelope of neighboring Israeli territory. The attacks, on a Saturday, initiated the Israel–Hamas war, almost exactly 50 years after Operation Badr and the greater Yom Kippur War of 6 October 1973. 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 referred to as Black Saturday (Hebrew: השבת השחורה)[20] or the Simchat Torah Massacre (הטבח בשמחת תורה),[21] and internationally as the 7 October attack.[22][23][24]

The attacks began in the early morning with a rocket barrage of at least 3,000 rockets launched against Israel and vehicle-transported and powered paraglider incursions into its territory.[25][26] Hamas fighters breached the Gaza–Israel barrier, massacring Israeli civilian communities, including in Be'eri, Kfar Aza, and at the Nova music festival,[27][28] and attacking military bases. The attacks resulted in 1,139 deaths—695 Israeli civilians (including 36 children), 71 foreign nationals, and 373 members of the security forces.[h][29] Approximately 250 Israeli civilians and soldiers were taken as hostages to the Gaza Strip, including 30 children, with the stated goal to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.[30][31][32][33] Numerous accounts of rape and sexual assault by Hamas fighters have been reported, which Hamas has denied.[34][35][36][37]

Hamas said its attack was in response to the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, rising Israeli settler violence, and recent escalations.[38][39][40]

At least 44 nations denounced the attack as terrorism, while some Arab and Muslim countries blamed the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories as the root cause of the attack.[41][42][43] The day was labeled the bloodiest in Israel's history and the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust.[44][45][46][47]

## Background[edit]

Main article: Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, since the Six-Day War in 1967.[i][50][51]

Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist movement formed in 1987, is the main Islamist movement in the Palestinian territories.[52] It maintains an uncompromising stance on the "complete liberation of Palestine", often using political violence to achieve its goals.[53] Hamas has been responsible for numerous suicide bombings[54][55] and rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians.[56] In 2017, it adopted a new charter, removing antisemitic language and shifting focus to Zionists rather than Jews.[57][58][59][60] Scholars differ on Hamas's objectives, with some saying it seeks a Palestinian state within 1967 borders[61] while others believe Hamas still seeks the destruction of Israel.[62][j]

Before the attack, Saudi Arabia warned Israel of an "explosion" as a result of the continued occupation,[63] Egypt had warned of a catastrophe unless there was political progress,[64] and Palestinian Authority officials gave similar warnings.[64] Less than two months before the attacks, King Abdullah II of Jordan lamented that Palestinians had "no civil rights; no freedom of mobility".[64]

### Events leading to the attack[edit]

See also: Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023

Over the course of 2023, before the attack, Israeli forces[clarification needed] had killed 247 Palestinians, and Palestinians had killed 39 Israelis.[65] Increases in settler attacks had displaced hundreds of Palestinians, and there were clashes around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a contested holy site in Jerusalem.[66]

Tensions between Israel and Hamas rose in September 2023, and The Washington Post wrote that the two were "on the brink of war".[67] On 13 September, five Palestinians were killed at the border.[k] Israel said it found explosives hidden in a shipment and halted all exports from Gaza;[67] Hamas denied this.[69] Reuters quoted Palestinians who said that the several-day ban affected thousands of families.[69] In response to the ban, Hamas put its forces on high alert and conducted military exercises with other groups, including openly practicing storming Israeli settlements.[67] Hamas also allowed Palestinians to resume protests at the Gaza–Israel barrier.[67] On 29 September, Qatar, the UN, and Egypt mediated an agreement between Israel and Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip to reopen closed crossing points and deescalate tensions;[70] the total number of Gazans with work permits in Israel stood at 17,000.[71]

Egypt said it warned Israel days before the attack that "an explosion of the situation [was] coming, and very soon, and it would be big."[72] Israel denied receiving such a warning,[73] although Michael McCaul, Chairman of the US House Foreign Relations Committee, said that warnings were given three days before the attack.[74]

### Hamas preparations[edit]

Bedouin clans built smuggling tunnels on the Egypt–Gaza border in 1981. In 2001, Hamas began a vast underground network, initially for smuggling and later serving multiple functions. The tunnels aimed to shift battles underground. According to a 2014 RAND Corporation study, Hamas employed 900 full-time staff for tunnel construction, each taking three months and costing an average of $100,000. Funding came from commercial schemes via Gaza's mosques.[75]

Gaza's tunnel network, known euphemistically as the "Gaza metro", serves Hamas for storage, movement, and command. Hamas used hardwired phone lines within the tunnels for covert communication over two years, evading Israeli intelligence. This allowed a successful surprise attack on Israel, with specific plans disclosed shortly before the operation, catching intelligence agencies off guard.[76]

In the months preceding the attack, Hamas publicly released videos of its militants preparing to attack Israel. A video released in December 2022 showed Hamas training to take hostages, while another video showed Hamas practicing paragliding.[77] On 12 September, Hamas posted a video of its fighters training to blast through the border.[78] After the attack, the IDF said that Hamas had extensively studied the military bases and settlements near the border.[79][80]

The Wall Street Journal has accused Iran of being behind the attack.[81] U.S. officials[82] and Iran have denied this.[83]

The IDF has reported seizing over 10,000 weapons following the attack. The arsenal included RPGs, mines, sniper rifles, drones, thermobaric rockets, and other advanced weapons. According to Israeli sources, documents and maps seized from Hamas militants indicated that Hamas intended a coordinated, month-long operation to invade and occupy Israeli towns, cities, and kibbutzim, including attacking Ashkelon by sea and reaching Kiryat Gat, 20 miles into Israel. The scale of weapons, supplies, and plans indicated, according to Israel, that Hamas intended to inflict mass casualties on Israeli civilians and military forces over an extended period.[84][85] Western and Middle Eastern security officials gathered evidence suggesting that Hamas intended to invade as far as the West Bank, had the initial attack been more successful.[86]

### Advance Israeli knowledge[edit]

According to The New York Times, Israeli officials had obtained detailed attack plans more than a year before the attack. The document described operational plans and targets, including the size and location of Israeli forces, and raised questions in Israel about how Hamas learned these details. The document provided a plan that included a large-scale rocket assault before an invasion, drones to knock out the surveillance cameras and automated guns that Israel has stationed along the border, and gunmen invading Israel, including with paragliders. The Times reported, "Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision." According to The Times, the document was widely circulated among Israeli military and intelligence leadership, who largely dismissed the plan as beyond Hamas's capabilities, though it was unclear whether the political leadership was informed. In July 2023, a member of the Israeli signals intelligence unit alerted her superiors that Hamas was conducting preparations for the assault, saying, "I utterly refute that the scenario is imaginary". An Israeli colonel ignored her concerns.[87]

According to Haaretz, Israel's domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, and IDF military commanders discussed a possible threat to the Nova music festival near kibbutz Re'im just hours before the attack, but the festival's organizers were not warned.[88][89]

According to a BBC investigation, surveillance reports suggested that Hamas was planning a significant operation against Israel, but senior IDF officers repeatedly ignored the warnings.[90]

## Attacks[edit]

For a more comprehensive list, see List of engagements during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.

At around 6:30 a.m. Israel Summer Time (UTC+3) on Saturday, 7 October 2023, Hamas announced the start of the operation, which it called Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.[65] Hamas commander Mohammed Deif, in an audio message, declared the operation was "to end the last occupation on Earth".[65] Deif said the attack was in response to the 16-year blockade of Gaza, Israeli incursions in West Bank cities, violence at Al-Aqsa mosque, and Israeli settler violence.[91] Shortly thereafter, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh made a similar announcement in a televised address.[92]

### Rocket fire[edit]

Aftermath of Hamas rocket hit on the maternity ward of Barzilai Medical Center, a hospital in southern Israel, during the Hamas-led attack on Israel[93]

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2023.

Deif said more than 5,000 rockets had been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel in a span of 20 minutes at the start of the operation. Israeli sources reported the launch of 3,000 projectiles from Gaza, killing five.[26][94][32][95] Explosions were reported in areas surrounding Gaza and in the Sharon Plain, including Gedera, Herzliyya,[6] Tel Aviv, and Ashkelon.[95] Air raid sirens were activated in Beer Sheva, Jerusalem, Rehovot, Rishon Lezion, and Palmachim Airbase.[96][97][98] Hamas issued a call to arms, with Deif calling on "Muslims everywhere to launch an attack".[32]

Palestinian militants also opened fire on Israeli boats off the Gaza Strip, while clashes broke out between Palestinians and the Israel Defense Forces in the eastern section of the Gaza perimeter fence.[96] In the evening Hamas launched another barrage of about 150 rockets towards Israel, with explosions reported in Yavne, Givatayim, Bat Yam, Beit Dagan, Tel Aviv, and Rishon Lezion.[94]

### Incursions into Southern Israel[edit]

Further information: List of engagements during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

Furthest extent of the paramilitaries' incursions into israel Militants kill Israelis in Sderot Militants killing Israelis in kibbutz Mefalsim Blood stain on a house in Be'eri

Simultaneously, around 2,900[99] Palestinian militants infiltrated Israel from Gaza using trucks, pickup trucks, motorcycles, bulldozers, speedboats, and powered paragliders.[100][65][101]

The Sderot police station was reported to have come under Hamas control, with militants killing 30 Israelis, including policemen and civilians.[96][102] Early in the attack they deliberately destroyed the computer systems at the police station. This disabled communication and delayed the response to the attacks.[103][104][105]

Images and videos appeared to show heavily armed and masked militants dressed in black fatigues riding pickup trucks[95][98] and opening fire in Sderot, killing dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers and setting homes on fire.[106] Other videos appeared to show Israelis taken prisoner, a burning Israeli tank,[107][32] and militants driving Israeli military vehicles.[95] Israeli first responders reportedly recovered documents from killed militants' bodies with instructions to attack civilians, including elementary schools and a youth center, to "kill as many people as possible", and to take hostages for use in future negotiations.[108][79][109][110] Some of the militants wore body cameras to record the acts, presumably for propaganda purposes.[111] According to reports, some militants used Captagon during the attacks—a stimulant produced in Syria and used throughout the Middle East.[112][113][114]

The morning of the attack, an Israeli military spokesman said that the militants from Gaza had entered Israel through at least seven locations[100] and invaded four small rural Israeli communities, the border city of Sderot, and two military bases from both land and sea.[101] Israeli media reported that seven communities came under Hamas control, including Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza, Magen, Be'eri, and Sufa.[115] The Erez Crossing was reported to have come under Hamas control, enabling militants to enter Israel from Gaza.[94] Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai said there were 21 active high-confrontation locations in southern Israel.[116]

The New York Times reported that an Israeli intelligence document prepared weeks after the attack found that Hamas had breached the border fence in over 30 separate locations.[117]

Starting at 6.30 a.m. the same day, a massacre unfolded at an outdoor music festival near Re'im, resulting in at least 360 dead and many others missing. Witnesses recounted militants on motorcycles opening fire on fleeing participants, who were already dispersing due to rocket fire that had wounded some attendees; some were also taken hostage.[118][119][120] Militants killed civilians at Nir Oz,[98][121] Be'eri, and Netiv HaAsara, where they took hostages[122][123] and set fire to homes,[6] as well as in kibbutzim around the Gaza Strip.[6] Around 50 civilians were killed in the Kfar Aza massacre, 108 in the Be'eri massacre, and 15 people in the Netiv HaAsara massacre.[124][125] Militants killed 16 or 17 Thai and Nepalese employees during the Kibbutz Alumim massacre.[126][127]

Other Hamas militants carried out an amphibious landing in Zikim.[95][128] Palestinian sources claim that the local Israeli army base was stormed.[129] The IDF said it had killed two attackers on the beach and destroyed four vessels, including two rubber boats. Militants also attacked a military base outside Nahal Oz, leaving at least 18 dead and taking seven hostage.[130][131] An IDF fire investigation found that the militants had "ignited substances... that contain toxic gasses which can cause suffocation within minutes, or even less" both at the base and in civilian locations.[131]

According to a December 2023 Ynet article, there was also an "immense and complex quantity" of friendly-fire incidents during the 7 October attack that "it would not be morally sound to investigate" given their number and the challenges soldiers were facing at the time.[132][133] In January 2024, an investigation by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth concluded that the IDF had in practice applied the Hannibal Directive, ordering all combat units to stop "at all costs" any attempt by Hamas militants to return to Gaza, even if there were hostages with them.[134][135] It is unclear how many hostages were killed by friendly fire as a result of the order.[134][135] According to Yedioth Ahronoth, around 70 burnt-out vehicles on roads leading to Gaza had been fired on by helicopters or tanks, killing all occupants in at least some cases.[134][135]

#### Re'im music festival massacre[edit]

Militant abducting a man during the Re'im music festival massacre that left at least 360 people dead and others taken hostage

Main article: Re'im music festival massacre

As part of the Hamas-led attack, 364 civilians were killed and many more wounded at the Supernova Sukkot Gathering, an open-air music festival celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot near kibbutz Re'im. At least 40 hostages were also taken.[136][137][138][139][140] This mass killing had the largest number of casualties out of a number of massacres targeting Israeli civilians in settlements adjacent to Gaza that were part of the 7 October invasion, alongside those at the settlements of Netiv HaAsara, Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz and Holit.[141]

At 6:30 am, around sunrise, rockets were noticed in the sky. Around 7:00 am, a siren warned of an incoming rocket attack, prompting festival-goers to flee.[142] Subsequently, armed militants, dressed in military attire and using motorcycles, trucks and powered paragliders, surrounded the festival grounds and indiscriminately fired on people attempting to escape. Attendees seeking refuge nearby, in bomb shelters, bushes, and orchards, were killed while in hiding. Those who reached the road and parking lot were trapped in a traffic jam as militants fired at vehicles. The militants executed some wounded people at point-blank range as they crouched on the ground.[143][144]

The details of the hostages' whereabouts and conditions are not publicly known.[139][140][145] The massacre at the festival has been described as the largest terror attack in Israel's history[146][147][144] and the worst Israeli civilian massacre ever.[148]

Child's bedroom, Kfar Aza, after October 7 Hamas Attacks

#### Kfar Aza massacre[edit]

Main article: Kfar Aza massacre

During the Hamas-led attack, around 70 Hamas militants attacked Kfar Aza, a kibbutz about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from the border with the Gaza Strip, massacring residents and abducting several hostages.

The kibbutz had more than 700 residents, and it took the IDF two days to wrest back full control of it.[149][150] While the exact number of Israelis killed is unknown, as of 15 October, 52 were listed as dead and another 20 or more were missing.[151][152]

#### Be'eri massacre[edit]

Bodies of militants and houses destroyed after the Be'eri massacre

Main article: Be'eri massacre

On the morning of the attack, around 70 Hamas militants[153][154] carried out a massacre at Be'eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza Strip. At least 130 people were killed in the attack,[6] including women (such as peace activist Vivian Silver),[155] children, and infants,[156] claiming the lives of 10% of the community's residents. Dozens of homes were also burned down.[157] Several newspapers called the massacre an act of terrorism; some compared the brutality of the atrocities to that of ISIS.[158][159][160][161] Hostages were taken, leading to a standoff with the IDF.[162][163][164] According to survivors, there were also deaths from friendly fire; an Israeli tank fired on a house known to contain around 40 Hamas fighters and 14 hostages, among them two children, killing all hostages in the house but one.[165]

#### Moshav Yakhini[edit]

A squad of Hamas militants that arrived in a van attacked the moshav of Yakhini.[166][167][168] There were seven casualties in the moshav,[166][169][170] including a border police officer.[171][172] An IDF major in the Maglan unit was also injured.[173] The community leader's was on holiday in Thailand at the time, and remotely directed the moshav's 18-person protection team's response.[166] YAMAM and Sayeret Matkal IDF units eventually arrived and killed all the attackers.[166]

#### Ein HaShlosha kibbutz[edit]

In the kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, at least four civilians were killed while defending the kibbutz from militants, and multiple hostages were taken.[174] An 80-year-old Argentinian woman died after her home was set on fire and she was unable to escape.[175] A standoff between the attackers and the residents' security team lasted six hours.[176] The leader of the security team, who was in his sixties, was killed in the firefight.[176] A 63-year-old grandmother was also among those killed in the attack.[177] A 39-year-old Israeli-Chilean woman was shot eight times.[178]

Thirty survivors were discovered in the kibbutz three days after the massacre,[179] 14 of whom were Thai nationals.[180]

#### Psyduck music festival massacre[edit]

Main article: Psyduck music festival massacre

Psyduck was a small trance music festival that took place in the open fields near kibbutz Nir Oz, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the border of Gaza. The event drew around 100 participants. Hamas militants attacked the festival, killing 17 Israelis. Some were fatally shot at the festival site, while others were killed as they attempted to escape to nearby kibbutzim. Most survivors hid under small bushes until Israel Defense Forces rescued them a few hours later.[181]

#### Attack on Re'im military base[edit]

At 10 a.m., less than five hours after the attacks began, fighting was reported at Re'im military base, headquarters of the Gaza Division.[182][183] It was later reported that Hamas took control of the base and took several Israeli soldiers captive[182] before the IDF regained control later in the day.[184][185] The base was reportedly the location of IDF drone and surveillance operations. Hamas reportedly posted video of dead Israeli soldiers it had killed at the base.[186]

#### Attack on kibbutz Nir Am[edit]

Nir Am was attacked but no residents were harmed. Inbal Rabin-Lieberman, the 25-year-old security coordinator, alongside her uncle Ami, led a guard detail that killed multiple militants attempting to infiltrate a nearby chicken farm. They successfully deterred the rest of the invading militants from entering the community.[187][188][189]

#### Participating and supporting organizations[edit]

In addition to Hamas, several Palestinian militant groups voiced support for the operation and participated in it to some extent. The National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the secular-socialist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), confirmed their participation in the operation through their military spokesman Abu Khaled,[190] saying it had lost three fighters in combat with the IDF.[191] The PFLP (a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist / Secular Nationalist political party)[192] and the Lions' Den group (a nonpartisan militant group based in the West Bank) voiced support for the operation and declared maximum alertness and general mobilization among their troops. The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the PFLP's armed wing, published videos of two of their militants storming Israeli watchtowers.[193][failed verification]

### Hostages taken[edit]

Main article: 2023 Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis

Billboard in Tel Aviv calling for the return of Israeli hostages in Gaza

Soon after the start of the Hamas operation, there were reports that many civilians and soldiers had been taken as captives back to the Gaza Strip. Later in the day Hamas announced it had captured enough Israeli soldiers to force a prisoner swap,[194] and Israel confirmed hostages had been taken.[195]

In Be'eri, up to 50 people were taken hostage; after an 18-hour standoff between militants and IDF forces, they were freed.[196] Hostages were also reported taken in Ofakim, where policemen led by Chief Superintendent Jayar Davidov engaged Palestinian militants in a shootout;[when?] Davidov and three of his men were killed, and the IDF later rescued two Israeli hostages in the suburb of Urim.[196] There were reports of militants killing and stealing family pets.[197]

Hamas took many hostages back to Gaza. On 16 October, they said they were holding 250 hostages[198] and that it had done so to force Israel to release its Palestinian prisoners.[199] Some of the hostages, including three members of the Bibas family, were subsequently handed over to other militant groups. Palestinian Islamic Jihad ended up holding at least 30 of the hostages, but it is unclear whether they or Hamas originally kidnapped them.

According to Ariel Merari, the raiders "were ordered to kidnap as many [people] as possible... [and] they intentionally kidnapped a populace that is sensitive from the aspect of Israeli public opinion".[200] Merari doubts that Hamas will agree to releasing all of the hostages in "one go" regardless of how many of its prisoners are released, since the hostages are its only guarantee against complete destruction at Israel's hands.[200] He believes Hamas will try to force a ceasefire and protract the release for weeks or months, until an Israeli offensive is no longer seen as viable.[200]

### Locations of attacks[edit]

See also: List of engagements during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war § Locations of raids into Southern Israel from Gaza, and List of engagements during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

Attack  | Location  | Israelis and foreign nationals  | Militants from Gaza  | Date

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Type  | Name  | Pop. [l] | Total  | Civilian [m] | Military [n] | Hostages  | Number  | Deaths  | POWs  | Start  | End
2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel  | Border checkpoints + Military Bases + Civilian Housing  | Southern District (Israel) | total population =  | total = 1,139  | total =  | total =  | total = 200+ Hostages  | total ≈ 3000
[citation needed] | total ≈ 1000
[citation needed] | total = ?  | 2023-10-07 (Dawn)  |
Battle of Sderot |  Police station & Town  | Sderot | 30,553  | 15[204] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Re'im music festival massacre |  Public event  | Near Re'im | ~3500 on the day [o] | 357+ [207][208] |  |  | 40 Hostages [209] |  |  |  |  |
Be'eri massacre |  Kibbutz | Be'eri | 1,047  | 117+ [210] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Nahal Oz attack |  Military Base | Nahal Oz lookout base[211] | 24+ [p] | 15+[211] | none  | 15+[211] | 7+ Hostages [211] |  |  |  | 2023-10-07  |
Kibbutz | Kibbutz Nahal Oz | 471  | 80+  | 12+  | 46+  | 20+ missing [q] |  |  |  |  |
area  | Nahal Oz | subtotals  | 100+[212] | 12+  | 61+ soldiers  | 7 to 30 Hostages  |  |  |  |  |
Kfar Aza massacre |  | Kfar Aza |  | 52+[213][214] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Zikim Beach massacre |  Public place  | Zikim |
(city)  | 35+ [215] | 19 [216] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Nir Oz massacre |  | Nir Oz | 393  | 27+[217] |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2023-10-07 09:45 [r] |
Netiv HaAsara massacre |  | Netiv HaAsara |  | 21+ [218][219] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Alumim massacre |  | Alumim | 531  | 19+ [220][221] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Kissufim massacre |  | Kissufim | 292  | 16+[222][223] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Holit massacre |  Kibbutz | Holit | 203  | 13+ [224] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Ein HaShlosha attack |  Kibbutz | Ein HaShlosha | 369  | 5+[225] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Nirim attack |  Kibbutz | Nirim | 407  | 5+[226][227] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Nir Yitzhak attack |  Kibbutz | Nir Yitzhak | 649  | 5+[225] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

1. ^ Per Israel[14]
2. ^ According to The New York Times, an Israeli senior military officer estimated 1,500 soldiers were located along the Israel–Gaza border, however around half were absent due to the Sabbath and the Simchat Torah festival.[15]
3. ^ According to Israeli sources[16]
4. ^ According to Israeli sources[14]
5. ^ according to Israeli social security data[17]
6. ^ 695 Israelis and 71 foreign nationals[17]
7. ^ including 20 under 15[17]
8. ^ This excludes the invading Palestinian militants who died in the subsequent fighting with Israeli armed personnel.
9. ^ Although Israel disengaged from Gaza in 2005, most of the international community still regards Gaza as being occupied due to Israel's effective military control over the territory.[48][49]
10. ^ Sources that say Hamas calls for Israel's destruction cite the 1998 Hamas charter, while sources that say Hamas has accepted the 1967 borders cite the 2017 Hamas charter, 2005 Palestinian Cairo Declaration and 2006 Palestinian Prisoners' Document.
11. ^ The Washington Post said the Palestinians were trying to explode the device,[67] while Al-Jazeera said that a Palestinian Explosives Engineering Unit was trying to defuse the device.[68]
12. ^ Population data from 2021 unless otherwise stated.[201][202]
13. ^ Most of the civilian areas on the Israeli side of the Gaza border had lightly armed volunteer security teams.[203]
14. ^ Includes on duty police, military, and other professional armed security forces. Off duty IDF reservists were counted as civilians, so some available lists of names include more people with military ranks than the official number of military deaths.[citation needed]
15. ^ Attendance at the festival was reported to be 3,500 but figures vary.[205] After the attack, relatives searching for missing loved ones said more than one thousand were at the event at the time of the attack.[206] Some festival attendees estimated 3,000–4,000 people.[206] An emergency medic who responded to the massacre at the festival placed attendance at 3,000.[139]
16. ^ There were at least two additional soldiers on duty that day who survived.[211]
17. ^ including the Bibas family
18. ^ Rockets were hard at 6:30am and the militants entered the Bibas home at 9:45am [1]

### Contrasting stories about the event[edit]

The attacks on 7 October included both civilian and military targets, but the stories told by the different sides of the war show very little overlap. The film Bearing Witness depicts the attacks as primary, or solely, an attack on civilians, while Hamas's propaganda videos posted to Al-Qassam Brigades' Telegram channel and website depict the operation as primarily, or solely, focused on the destruction of the border fence and other military targets.[228] In the months leading up to 7 October, Al-Qassam posted video of themselves and some of their allies training for the attacks against military and ambiguous targets.[229]

## Casualties[edit]

Further information: Casualties of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

Footage of Israeli elite unit clearing after the Re'im music festival massacre

The attack is considered the bloodiest day in Israel's history and the deadliest for Jews since the Holocaust.[44][45] Initially up to 1,400 people were reported killed. As of 10 November the estimate stood at around 1,200.[230] In December this figure was further revised using social security data to 1,139.[17] This number consists of 766 civilians, including 36 children, and 373 security forces.[17] The youngest person killed was 10 months old, and 25 were people over age 80.[17][231]

The attack left over 3,400 wounded,[18] and 247 soldiers and civilians were taken hostage.[19] On 19 October, Israeli officials reported an additional 100 to 200 missing.[232] By December 2023, the number of missing totalled 5.[17] Israeli casualties include about 70 Arab Israelis, predominantly from Negev Bedouin communities.[233][234][235][236] The attack affected a province with a population of 4,000,000 Israelis, while the war displaced 300,000 Israelis.[237]

On 7 October, over 100 civilians were killed in the Be'eri massacre, including women and children, and over 270 people were killed at a music festival in Re'im.[118] As of 10 October, over 100 people had been reported killed in the Kfar Aza massacre, with the total death toll unknown.[238] Nine people were fatally shot at a bus shelter in Sderot.[100] At least four people were reported killed in Kuseife.[94] At least 400 wounded were treated in Ashkelon,[239][98] while 280 others were reported in Beer Sheva, 60 of whom were in serious condition.[100] In the north, injuries from rocket attacks were reported in Tel Aviv.[240] At least 49 Israeli children and adolescents under the age of 19 were killed in the attack.[241]

Former Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. striker Lior Asulin was among those killed in the Re'im music festival massacre.[242] The head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, Ofir Libstein, was killed in an exchange of fire with the militants.[243] The police commander of Rahat, Jayar Davidov, was also killed.[244] The IDF confirmed that 247 of its soldiers had been killed.[245] Among those confirmed dead were Colonel Yonatan Steinberg, the commander of the Nahal Brigade, who was killed near Kerem Shalom; Colonel Roi Levy, commander of the Multidimensional "Ghost" unit, who was killed near kibbutz Re'im;[246][10] and Lieutenant Colonel Eli Ginsberg, commander of the LOTAR Counter-terrorism Unit School.[247] The Druze deputy commander of the 300th "Baram" Regional Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Alim Abdallah, was killed in action along with two other soldiers while responding to an infiltration from southern Lebanon on 9 October.[248] Israeli peace activist Hayim Katsman was killed in Holit. Peace activist Vivian Silver, originally thought to be taken hostage,[249] was later confirmed to have been killed during the attack on Be'eri.[250] Israel Hayom photographer Yaniv Zohar was killed in Nahal Oz.[251]

The great number and geographical spread of the victims made locating all of their remains difficult. Several weeks after the massacre, once conventional search techniques had been exhausted, the IDF approached the Israel Nature and Parks Authority for help in tracking the flight paths of vultures, which resulted in the discovery of at least five more bodies.[252] The IDF also enlisted the aid of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority to help recover remains that were so badly burned as to be indistinguishable from the surrounding rubble; the remains of at least ten victims have been recovered this way.[253][254]

Hamas took at least 247 Israelis hostage and transported them to Gaza.[19] On 8 October, Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it was holding at least 30 captives.[255] At least four people were reportedly taken from Kfar Aza.[256] Videos from Gaza appeared to show captured people, with Gazan residents cheering trucks carrying dead bodies.[101] Four captives were later reported to have been killed in Be'eri,[257] while Hamas said that an IDF airstrike on Gaza on 9 October killed four captives.[258] Yedioth Ahronoth photographer Roy Edan was reported missing and likely captured alongside his child in Kfar Aza. His wife was killed and two of their children were able to hide in a closet until rescued.[259] Edan's body was identified ten days later as one of the casualties of the Kfar Aza massacre.[260] American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin was one of the kidnapped. On 11 October, Hamas's Qassam Brigades released a video appearing to show the release of three hostages, a woman and two children, in an open area near a fence. Israel dismissed the video as "theatrics".[261] According to Ynet, there were also casualties from friendly fire on October 7 which the IDF believed "it would not be morally sound to investigate [...] due to the immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities due to the challenging situations the soldiers were in at the time."[132]

### Identification of remains[edit]

According to Chen Kugel, head of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, hundreds of bodies arrived at the institute in a state "beyond recognition"

According to Chen Kugel, head of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, hundreds of bodies arrived at the institute in a state "beyond recognition".[262] Pathologists were required to process, among others, bone fragments recovered from fires; a blood-soaked baby mattress; victims who were tied, then executed; and two victims who were tied, then incinerated alive.[262]

With hundreds missing and bodies burned beyond recognition, Israeli authorities assembled recovery teams from across society. This included archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority, who identified and removed ancient remains in attempts to sift through ash and rubble for bone fragments other forensic teams overlooked.[263]

The sheer number of casualties overwhelmed authorities. Bodies were brought chaotically to the Shura IDF base and Abu Kabir forensic institute. The different military, police, and civilian teams caused confusion. Archeologists systematically searched rooms, dividing them into grids and carefully extracting bone shards. At one house, the archeology team found a bloodstain under ash that it determined was the outline of a body, later identified by DNA analysis as Meni Godard.[263]

### Revision of casualty numbers[edit]

On 10 November, Israel revised its casualty count from 1,400 to 1,200 after realizing that some bodies that were badly burned[264] were those of Hamas fighters.[265][230] This included 859 civilians,[266] 283 soldiers,[267][268] 57 policemen,[269] and 10 Shin Bet members.[11]

In December 2023, using social security data, this was further revised to 1,139: 695 Israeli civilians (including 36 children), 71 foreign nationals, and 373 security forces.[17] Five people are classed as missing, including four Israelis.[17]

## Reactions[edit]

### Israeli response[edit]

Main articles: Israeli government response to the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and 2023 Israel–Hamas war

Further information: 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, 2023 Gaza Strip evacuations, 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and Siege of Gaza City

Posters calling for the return of Israeli hostages in Gaza

After the initial breach of the Gaza perimeter by Palestinian militants, it took hours for the Israeli military to respond by sending troops to counterattack.[270] The first helicopters sent to support the military were launched from the north of Israel, and arrived in Gaza an hour after fighting began.[271] Israel had difficulty determining which outposts and settlements were occupied, and distinguishing between Palestinian militants and the soldiers and civilians on the ground.[271] The helicopter crews initially poured down fire at a tremendous rate, attacking about 300 targets in four hours. Later, the crews began to slow their attacks and carefully select targets.[271] According to Haaretz journalist Josh Breiner, a police source said that a police investigation found that an IDF helicopter that had fired on Hamas militants "apparently also hit some festival participants" in the Re'im music festival massacre.[272] The Israeli police denied Haaretz's report.[273]

Subsequent investigation has determined that militants had been instructed not to run so that the air force would think they were Israelis.[271] This deception worked for some time, but pilots began to realize the problem and ignore their restrictions. By around 9 a.m., amid the chaos and confusion, some helicopters started laying down fire without prior authorization.[271] The attack appeared to have been a complete surprise to the Israelis.[97]

The line in black represents the IDF's boundary at Wadi Gaza for evacuation of the northern Gaza Strip

The IDF launched Operation Swords of Iron in Gaza and declared a state of emergency for areas within 80 kilometers (50 mi) of the Gaza border.[115] It also said that Hamas "made a grave mistake" in launching its attack and pledged that "Israel will win".[100] The IDF declared a "state of readiness for war",[94] adding that reservists were to be deployed not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank and along the borders with Lebanon and Syria.[274] Residents in areas near Gaza were asked to stay inside, while civilians in southern and central Israel were "required to stay next to shelters".[95] Roads around Gaza were closed by the IDF.[100] Tel Aviv's streets were also locked down.[95]

After the attack, Israel declared a heightened state of preparedness for potential conflict.[275] The IDF declared a state of readiness for war, and Netanyahu convened an emergency gathering of security authorities. The IDF additionally reported that it had begun targeted actions in Gaza under what it called Operation Swords of Iron (or Iron Swords) (Hebrew: מבצע חרבות ברזל, romanized: Mivtsá charvót barzél).[276][277][49][94] Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai announced that a "state of war" existed, following what he called "a massive attack from the Gaza Strip".[278] He also announced the closure of all of southern Israel to "civilian movement" and the Yamam counterterrorism unit's deployment to the area.[116] The IDF's chief spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said four divisions were deployed to the area, augmenting 31 preexisting battalions.[100]

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the country was facing "a very difficult moment", and offered strength and encouragement to the IDF, other security forces, rescue services, and residents who were under attack.[98] In a televised broadcast, Netanyahu said: "We are at war."[101] He also said that the IDF would reinforce its border deployments to deter others from "making the mistake of joining this war".[279] In a later address, he threatened to "turn Gaza into a deserted island" and urged its residents to "leave now".[38][disputed - discuss]

On 7 October, Israel's Security Cabinet voted to undertake a series of actions to bring about the "destruction of the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad", according to a statement by the Prime Minister's Office.[280] The Israel Electric Corporation, which supplies up to 80% of Gaza's electricity, cut off power to the area.[95] As a result, Gaza's power supply was reduced from 120 MW to 20 MW, forcing it to rely on power plants paid for by the Palestinian Authority.[281]

Ben Gurion Airport and Ramon Airport remained operational, but multiple airlines canceled flights to and from Israel.[282] Israel Railways suspended service in parts of the country and replaced some routes with temporary bus routes,[283][284] and cruise ships removed the ports of Ashdod and Haifa from their itineraries.[285]

#### Capture and interrogation of militants[edit]

Hamas Nukhba member recounting the events of the Kfar Aza massacre during interrogation, in a video released by the IDF

Main article: Interrogation of militants in the 2023 Israel-Hamas war

Following the attack, more than 600 militants were captured in Israel. Israel has claimed that the interrogation of the suspects revealed significant insights into the group's strategies, ideologies, and operational methods that played a crucial role in its military response and in shaping the global understanding of the conflict.[286][287][288] Interrogation sessions were held over four weeks, mainly in a southern Israeli prison, and concluded in early November.[288] Interrogation methods used by Shin Bet and the IDF Unit 504 included, based on Israeli sources, psychological engagement in adherence to Israeli law prohibiting physical coercion. Public release of interrogation videos aimed to validate Israeli military actions and counter Hamas narratives.[288]

#### Israeli Arabs[edit]

Israeli President Isaac Herzog in the city of Rahat with the heads of the Bedouin community and the families of kidnapped and murdered Bedouins, 26 October 2023

Arab Israeli politicians, including the United Arab List leader Mansour Abbas and Arab Knesset member Ayman Odeh, condemned the Hamas-led attack on Israel.[289][290] Israel's Social Equality Minister Amichai Chikli said, "the Arab population has shown much solidarity and responsibility, and this is especially true for the Bedouin population in the Negev."[289]

### Palestinian response[edit]

#### Hamas[edit]

Khaled Mashal lauded the Hamas attack, calling it legitimate resistance to Israeli occupation. He said, "We know very well the consequences of our operation on Oct. 7", emphasizing that Palestinian lives must be sacrificed in the quest for liberation.[291]

Khalil al-Hayya, a senior member of Hamas, said the action was necessary to "change the entire equation and not just have a clash... We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm."[292]

Taher El-Nounou, a Hamas media adviser, said that he hoped "that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all the borders, and that the Arab world will stand with [Hamas]".[292]

Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas official, said in an interview: "We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth. Because we have the determination...to fight."[293] He emphasized Hamas's willingness to "pay a price", concluding with a call for the elimination of Israel: "We must remove that country because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nations".[294] These comments came after an incident where Hamad abruptly left a BBC interview when asked about Hamas's killing of civilians in Israel on 7 October.[293]

Hamas denied killing any civilians in the attack.[295] Its official announcement referring to the event rejected the "falsehood of the fabricated allegations" promoted by some Western media outlets, which unprofessionally adopt the "Zionist narrative full of lies and slander against our Palestinian people and their resistance, the latest of which was the claim of killing children, beheading them, and targeting civilians".[295] When asked about the Re'im music festival massacre, where 260 civilians were murdered, Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk replied that it was a "coincidence", and that the attackers may have thought these were soldiers "resting".[296] [297]

In January 2024, Hamas released a report titled "Our Narrative", which accepted "some faults" but continued to deny having intentionally targeted civilians, blamed Israel for deaths, and justified the attacks as "a necessary step and a normal response to confront all Israeli conspiracies against the Palestinian people".[298]

#### Palestinian Authority[edit]

On the eve of the Hamas attack at the emergency meeting in Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian people had the right to defend themselves against the terror of settlers and occupation troops.[299] According to Palestinian government agency WAFA, Abbas also ordered the government and relevant authorities to immediately send all available resources to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza under Israeli aggression.[300] On 16 October, he declared that "Hamas' actions don't represent the Palestinians".[301][302] He has yet to condemn the October 7 massacre as of November 18.[303]

#### Palestinian public opinion[edit]

In November 2023, as a result of Israeli actions in Gaza following the October 7 attacks, Hamas's popularity among Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank increased significantly.[304] In a survey conducted on 14 November by the Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD), a research, consulting and development firm based in Ramallah,[305] Palestinians showed overwhelming support for the attack. It said, "Palestinians living in the West Bank overwhelmingly answered that they supported the attack to either an extreme or 'somewhat' extent (83.1%)."[306][307][308]

In Gaza, Palestinians exhibited lesser consensus, with only 63.6% "extremely" or "somewhat" supporting the attack. 14.4% answered they neither opposed or supported the attack, and 20.9% opposed the attack to some degree.[306][307][308]

Only 10% of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank said they believed Hamas committed war crimes during the attack on Israel, and a large majority of Palestinians said they had not seen any videos showing Hamas atrocities in Israel.[309]

### International[edit]

See also: International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

Celebrations in Iran, 7 October 2023

At least 44 nations denounced Hamas and explicitly condemned its conduct as terrorism, including a joint statement by the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany. In contrast, Arab and Muslim countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Syria, Iran and Iraq blamed Israel for the attack. The UAE, Bahrain, and China have all amended their initial declarations to expressly denounce the killing and abduction of Israeli civilians.[41][42][43] According to a poll conducted by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy between 14 November and 6 December 2023, 95% of Saudis did not believe that Hamas had killed civilians in its attack on Israel.[310]

Over 680 legal experts and 128 human rights experts from Israel and around the world have signed an appeal for the immediate release of all hostages kidnapped by Hamas, and for the end of the "vicious and inhumane capture, violence, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of women and girls, children and infants." According to the appeal, "the abductees are defined according to international law as victims of enforced disappearance... [which makes these acts] blatant violations of international human rights law and humanitarian law, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity."[311]

The United Nations, particularly the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), faced criticism for failing to condemn Hamas's actions against women and failing to voice disapproval of the mass rape of Israeli women and girls.[312][313]

The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill to amend the US immigration code and ban people associated with Hamas, PIJ, and other perpetrators of the October 7 attacks from seeking immigration-related relief or protections in the United States.[314][315]

After the attacks, the Shoah Foundation said it had gathered over 100 video testimonies of those who experienced the attacks to add them to the collection of "Holocaust survivor and witness testimony."[316] Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg said of the attacks, "I never imagined I would see such unspeakable barbarity against Jews in my lifetime" and that the Shoah Foundation project would ensure "that their stories would be recorded and shared in the effort to preserve history and to work toward a world without antisemitism or hate of any kind."[317]

## Reported atrocities[edit]

See also: Bearing Witness (2023 film), Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, and War crimes in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

### Sexual violence[edit]

Main article: Sexual violence in the 7 October attack on Israel

Israeli women and girls were reportedly raped, assaulted, and mutilated by Hamas militants during the incursion, an allegation Hamas denies.[35][318][319][320][321] In the months following the attacks, the The Wall Street Journal reported on 21 December, there was "mounting evidence of sexual violence, based on survivor accounts, first responders and witnesses."[322] These acts were denounced as gender-based violence, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, aligning with the International Criminal Court's recognition of sexual violence as such.[323][324][325] Witnesses recounted scenes, including instances of rape, beheadings, and other brutalities.[326]

Testimonies described the perpetrators using shovels,[327] beheading victims, and even playing with severed body parts.[325] The BBC reported that "Videos of naked and bloodied women filmed by Hamas on the day of the attack, and photographs of bodies taken at the sites afterwards, suggest that women were sexually targeted by their attackers."[328] Forensic examinations showed signs of sexual abuse, mutilations, broken limbs, and broken pelvises,[329][330] prompting scholars and legal experts to conduct investigations, amassing substantial evidence pointing to crimes against humanity and war crimes.[331][325][332][333] Hamas was accused of employing rape as a weapon of war.[334][335] Some of the released hostages also shared testimonies of sexual violence during their time in Gaza.[318] Israel accused international women's rights and human rights groups of downplaying the assaults.[336]

A two-month New York Times investigation, released in late December 2023, reported finding at least seven locations where sexual assaults and mutilations of Israeli women and girls were carried out. It concluded that these were not isolated events but part of a broader pattern of gender-based violence during the October 7 massacres. The probe was based on video footage, photographs, GPS data from mobile phones, and interviews with more than 150 people.[35] According to reporting by The Intercept, the New York Times investigation has been criticized, both externally and internally by other employees, for apparent discrepancies in witness accounts and lax evidentiary standards.[337] On December 30, The Daily Telegraph wrote: "First responders to massacre saw raped and abused bodies, but the rapidity of events—and cultural taboos—may leave the truth uncovered".[338]

### Torture and mutilation[edit]

Dead bodies after the Be'eri massacre

Israeli forces in Kfar Aza and Be'eri[339] reported that they found bodies of victims mutilated. One IDF commander told an i24 News reporter that 40 babies had been killed, out of what one estimate described as at least 100 civilian victims.[340][238][341][342][343][344] The story was later proved false; only two babies are known to have died as a result of the attack, one from a bullet, the other shortly after birth in hospital.[345]

Abandoned and damaged cars after the Re'im music festival massacre

Other false reports of this type were spread by ZAKA volunteers acting as first responders.[345] In one, a ZAKA volunteer said groups of children were found tied up and burned alive.[345] Other reported atrocities included sexual assaults, rapes and mutilations; some victims were reportedly bound, and some victims' bodies desecrated.[345] At the music festival, there was said to be mass killing but less time for torture than at the kibbutz. About 70% of bodies were reported to have been shot in the back.[346] Graeme Wood reported that the video footage retrieved from body cameras the attackers wore showed several victims who "in the beginning of the footage... are alive, [and] by the end they're dead. Sometimes, in fact frequently, after their death their bodies are still being desecrated."[347] Other videos show attackers shooting at children, executing men in civilian clothing, throwing grenades into civilian shelters, and an attempted decapitation.[348][349][350]

First response personnel recovering the bodies reported being extremely distressed by the atrocities they witnessed, and said they placed the bodies of Hamas militants in body bags marked with an "X" and removed them with a bulldozer.[346]

Israeli security agencies released videos that the Times of Israel described as apparent interrogations of Hamas attackers, in which the subjects said they were ordered to kill, behead, cut off limbs and rape.[351] A former chief rabbi of the Israeli army, part of the team identifying bodies, said there were many instances of rape and torture, and an Israeli reserve warrant officer said that forensic exams had discovered multiple cases of rape, though neither provided forensic evidence to support the claims.[352] CNN has interviewed several Israelis who witnessed the aftermath of the attack, who reported visible signs of rape and excessive violence on the bodies of women and girls from several sites.[353]

A Ha'aretz investigation into the claims of mutilation and torture found that "Members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as other Gazans who entered Israel, committed war crimes and crimes against humanity." Regarding "testimonies about Hamas' atrocities on October 7", Ha'aretz found that "Most are supported by extensive evidence, but a few have been proved untrue, providing ammunition to deniers of the historic massacre." Ha'aretz found several cases where Israeli search and rescue units, the army, and politicians disseminated inaccurate information. An Israeli army officer claimed that babies had been hung on clotheslines; later investigations showed that exactly one infant was killed, alongside her father, and that the reports of groups of children being slaughtered and mutilated were false. A total of five children under age six were killed, and another 14 between ages 12 and 15 were killed in rocket attacks from Gaza. Most of the children were killed alongside family members. Ha'aretz reported that "Hamas terrorists did desecrate corpses during the massacre, especially the bodies of soldiers. There were also beheadings and cases of dismemberment" but that "there is no evidence that children from several families were murdered together, rendering inaccurate Netanyahu's remark to U.S. President Joe Biden that Hamas terrorists 'took dozens of children, tied them up, burned them and executed them.'"[345] ZAKA volunteers shared stories of atrocities, with one repeatedly describing 20 children having been bound and burned at a kibbutz; the same volunteer said a pregnant woman had her unborn baby cut from her womb and that he had found the woman next to two murdered children aged six and seven. But the list of dead does not correspond to the claims, and no children of that age were killed in the kibbutz; the kibbutz has denied that the story is related to the kibbutz.[345] Sara Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister's wife, sent U.S. first lady Jill Biden a letter claiming that a heavily pregnant woman was taken hostage to Gaza; the woman was identified as a Thai worker who had been taken hostage and later released. She was not pregnant and had not given birth.[345]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described some of the evidence given by the same ZAKA volunteer:[354] "a young boy and girl, 6 and 8 years old, and their parents around the breakfast table. The father's eye gouged out in front of his kids. The mother's breast cut off, the girl's foot amputated, the boy's fingers cut off before they were executed"; and "a baby, an infant, riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded. Young people burned alive. I could go on, but it's simply depravity in the worst imaginable way."[355][356]

### Allegations of beheaded children[edit]

In the aftermath of the initial Hamas assault, witnesses from the Israeli soldiers, the Israeli Department Forces, and the first responder Israeli organization ZAKA said on French Israeli TV channel i24news that they had seen the bodies of beheaded infants at the site of the Kfar Aza massacre.[357][358][149] During Antony Blinken's visit to Israel, he said he was shown photos of the massacre by Hamas of Israeli civilians and soldiers, and specifically that he saw beheaded IDF soldiers.[359] U.S. President Biden separately said that he had seen photographic evidence of militants beheading children, but it was not the case; the White House subsequently clarified that Biden was alluding to news reports of beheadings, which have not contained or referred to photographic evidence.[150] NBC News called reports of "40 beheaded babies" unverified allegations,[150] adding that they appeared "to have originated from Israeli soldiers and people affiliated with the Israel Defense Force" and that "an Israeli official told CNN the government had not confirmed claims of the beheadings".[150] The allegation mainly "stemmed from a viral Israeli news broadcast clip" and the main X / Twitter accounts propagating the claims were i24NEWS and Israel's official account, even though Israeli Defense spokesperson Doron Spielman told NBC News that he could not confirm i24NEWS's report.[150] As of 12 October, CNN had extensively reviewed online media content to verify Hamas-related atrocities but found no evidence to support claims of decapitated children.[360]

An Israeli ZAKA volunteer reported on 14 October seeing children's bodies with severe injuries and burns. Some of the bodies appeared to have been decapitated, but the exact circumstances were not clear.[361]

According to The Jerusalem Post, which reprinted an article from the Israeli website Themedialine.org (whose founder, Felice Friedson, was praised by The Jerusalem Post and is a contributor to it[362]), approximately 200 forensic pathologists and other experts—from Israel, Switzerland, New Zealand, the U.S. and elsewhere—reviewed evidence of the attack at the National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Tel Aviv.[363] Chen Kugel, head of the center, said that many bodies, including those of babies, were without heads. When asked whether the bodies had been decapitated, Kugel answered yes.[364] He added that it was difficult to determine whether the dead were decapitated before or after death, or whether their heads had been "cut off by knife or blown off by RPG".[363]

On 24 October, Israeli authorities screened bodycam footage of Hamas atrocities for journalists, including "an attempt to decapitate someone who appeared to be still alive using a garden hoe",[365] as well as a still image of a decapitated IDF soldier.[366]

On 4 December, Haaretz reported that "unverified stories [had been] disseminated by Israeli search and rescue groups, army officers and even Sara Netanyahu".[367][368] Haaretz journalists Nir Hasson and Liza Rozovsky related the chronology of the news items about "beheaded babies" and "hung babies" and concluded, "this story is false".[367] They quoted Ishay Coen, a journalist for the ultra-Orthodox website Kikar Hashabbat, who admitted he made a mistake by unquestioningly accepting the IDF's claims.[367] "Why would an army officer invent such a horrifying story?", Hashabbat asked, adding, "I was wrong."[367] Haaretz also reported that some testimony came from reservist officers.[367]

### Immolation[edit]

On 20 October, a forensic analysis was presented to the media at Israel's National Center of Forensic Medicine that claimed to show evidence of victims burned alive with bound hands. The analysis suggested that one CT scan of charred remains showed an adult bound to a child at the time of death.[369][370] Many victims had soot in their trachea, indicating that they burned to death.[371]

### Accusation of genocide[edit]

Main article: Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel

According to several international law and genocide studies experts, Hamas's assault amounted to genocide.[372][373][374] Legal and genocide experts have condemned the attack,[375][376] saying it represents a serious violation of international law. They argue that Hamas carried out these actions with the intent to destroy the Israeli national group.[374][373][377][372] Some commentators point to Hamas's founding charter, which advocates for the destruction of Israel, contains antisemitic language, and, according to certain researchers, implies a call for the genocide of Jews. This has led to suggestions that the October 7 attacks were an effort to fulfill this agenda.[378][379][380][381]

## See also[edit]

* History of Hamas
* Outline of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
* Timeline of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
* Denial of the 7 October attacks
* Tet Offensive
* Massacre at Huế
* Attack on Pearl Harbor
* September 11 attacks
* Ramadan Offensive (2003)
* List of major terrorist incidents
* List of massacres in Israel
* Genocidal massacre

## Notes[edit]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d 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."
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* Yarden Roman-Gat
* Mia Schem

Killed hostages|

* Alon Shamriz, Yotam Haim, and Samer Talalka

Humanitarian
crisis|

* Gaza Strip evacuations
* Children
* Premature babies
* Famine
* Healthcare collapse
* Humanitarian aid
* Mass detentions

General
topics|

* Gaza–Israel conflict
* Casualties of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip
* Israeli blockade of Gaza
* Palestinian rocket attacks
* Palestinian tunnel warfare
* anti-tunnel barrier
* Human shields
* Ceasefire
* Israeli interrogations
* Women
* Children
* Wikipedia

Effects|

* Israeli government response
* Israeli war cabinet
* Economic impact
* Evacuations
* Media coverage
* Violence against journalists
* Misinformation
* Pallywood
* War crimes
* Cemetery destruction and necroviolence
* Alleged Gaza genocide
* Israeli torture in the occupied territories
* Proposed Israeli resettlement of Gaza
* Torture in the State of Palestine

| Reactions|

* Diplomatic impact
* US support for Israel
* Ceasefire Now Resolution
* Islamic Summit Conference
* Arab–Islamic extraordinary summit
* Hurmat-e-Masjid Aqsa Conference
* Cancellation of the 2023 MTV EMA
* Proposed Israeli resettlement of the Gaza Strip
* Qatar mediation of the Israel–Hamas war

| Discrimination|

* Antisemitism
* Riots in the North Caucasus
* Anti-Palestinianism
* Islamophobia
* Violent incidents
* Killing of Wadea al-Fayoume
* Death of Paul Kessler
* Vermont student shooting

|

Protests|

* France
* March for the Republic and Against Antisemitism
* Indonesia
* 2023 Bitung clashes
* Israel
* United Kingdom
* United States
* National March on Washington: Free Palestine
* March for Israel
* DNC protests
* March on Washington for Gaza

UN resolutions|

* A/RES/ES-10/21
* S/RES/2712
* A/RES/ES-10/22
* S/RES/2720

World Court|

* South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention)
* Legal Consequences of Israeli Policies and Practices

Courts|

* Defense for Children International-Palestine v. Biden

Casualties|

| Israel|

| Security
forces|

* Alim Abdallah
* Yitzhak Ben-Bashat
* Jayar Davidov
* Eli Ginsberg
* Salman Habaka
* Asaf Hamami
* Roi Levy
* Yonatan Steinberg

|

Civilians|

* Lior Asulin
* Yuval Castleman
* Hayim Katsman
* Ofir Libstein
* Shani Louk
* Izhar Peled
* Aner Shapira
* Vivian Silver
* Yahav Winner

Palestine|

| Hamas|

* Saleh al-Arouri
* Abdul Fatah Dukhan
* Mohammed Dababish
* Wissam Farhat
* Ahmed Ghandour
* Fursan Khalifa
* Osama Mazini
* Ayman Nofal
* Jamila al-Shanti
* Ali Al Qadi

|

Other
militants|

* Fouad Abu Butihan
* Jihad Shehadeh

Civilians|

* Refaat Alareer
* Hammam Alloh
* Naheda and Samr Anton
* Ibrahim al-Astal
* Ahmad Bahar
* Rashid Dabour [ar]
* Mohamed al-Dalou
* Awni El-Dous
* Omar Ferwana
* Hiba Abu Nada
* Ibrahim Qusaya
* Hind Rajab
* Mohammed Shabir
* Omar Abu Shawish
* Sufian Tayeh
* Wael Al Zard

Spillover|

* Saleh al-Arouri
* Ali Hussein Barji
* Razi Mousavi
* Wissam al-Tawil
* Sadegh Omidzadeh
* Mushtaq Talib Al-Saeedi

Journalists|

* Issam Abdallah
* Samer Abu Daqqa
* Roee Edan
* Belal Jadallah

General topics|

* Friendly fire

Related
people|

| Israelis|

* Nimrod Aloni
* Eitan Okun [he]
* Yagel Oshri
* Inbal Rabin-Lieberman
* Amir Tibon

|

Palestinians|

* Wael Al-Dahdouh
* Plestia Alaqad
* Motaz Azaiza
* Bisan Owda

Other
topics|

* Al-Saqqa House [ar]
* Al Qarara Cultural Museum
* Central Archives of Gaza City
* Bearing Witness
* "Harbu Darbu"
* "Options for a policy regarding Gaza's civilian population"
* Rajieen
* Attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq, Jordan, and Syria (2023–present)

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Massacres or pogroms against Jews

1st – 13th century|

| 1–999|

* Alexandrian pogrom (38)
* 2nd Alexandrian pogrom (66)

| Jewish revolts|

* The Great Revolt (66–73)
* Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136)
* Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus (351–352)
* Jewish revolt against Heraclius (614–617)

|

1000–1299|

* Córdoba massacre (1013)
* Fez massacre (1033)
* Granada massacre (1066)

| Rhineland massacres (1096)|

* Worms
* Speyer
* Mainz

|

* Ham massacre (1143)
* Massacres at London and York (1189–1190)
* Rintfleisch massacres (1298)

14th – 19th century|

| 1300–1599|

* Shepherds' Crusade (1320)
* Navarre pogrom (1328)
* Armleder persecutions (1336-1339)

| Persecution of Jews during the Black Death (1348–1350)|

* Erfurt
* Basel
* Speyer
* Strasbourg
* Zurich

|

* Brussels massacre (1370)
* 1391 pogroms (1391)
* Schaffhausen Massacre (1401)
* Moroccan revolution (1465)
* Massacre of the Assumption (1474)
* Spanish Inquisition (1478)
* Arles pogrom (1484)
* Lisbon massacre (1506)
* Hebron pogrom (1517)
* Safed pogrom (1517)
* Portuguese Inquisition (1536)

1600–1899|

* Chmielnicki massacres (1648–1657)
* Safed massacre (1660)
* Mawza Exile (1679)
* Massacre of Uman (1768)
* Tétouan pogrom (1790)
* Hep-Hep riots (1819)
* First Odessa pogrom (1821)
* Tzfat pogrom (1834)
* Hebron pogrom (1834)
* Safed massacre (1838)
* Allahdad (1839)
* Damascus affair (1840)
* Second Odessa pogrom (1859)
* Third Odessa pogrom (1871)

| Russian Empire (1881–1884)|

* Kiev
* Warsaw
* Fourth Odessa pogrom

|

* Corfu pogrom (1891)
* 1898 Algerian riots (1898)

20th century|

| 1900–1937|

* Częstochowa pogrom (1902)
* First Kishinev pogrom (1903)
* Zablotov pogrom (1903)
* Kiev pogrom (1905)
* Fifth Odessa pogrom (1905)
* Second Kishinev pogrom (1905)
* Białystok pogrom (1906)
* Siedlce pogrom (1906)
* Shiraz pogrom (1910)
* The Tritl (1912)
* Lwów pogrom (1914)
* Skver pogrom (1917)
* Kielce pogrom (1918)
* Lwów pogrom (1918)
* Anti-Jewish violence in Czechoslovakia (1918–1920)

| Russian Civil War (1918–1920)|

* Lida
* Radomyshl
* Justingrad
* Skver
* Zviahel
* Pinsk
* Fastov
* Proskurov
* Kiev

|

* Zavirtcha pogrom (1921)
* Oradea pogrom [hu] (1927)
* Safed massacre (1929)
* Hebron massacre (1929)
* Campbell pogrom [el] (1931)
* Constantine riots (1934)
* Thrace pogroms (1934)
* The Bloody Day in Jaffa (1936)
* Przytyk pogrom (1936)
* Brest pogrom (1937)

1938–1945|

| 1938|

* Tiberias massacre
* Kristallnacht

|

1939|

* Częstochowa massacre
* Dynów massacre
* Silc massacre

|

1940|

* Dorohoi pogrom

|

1941|

* Bucharest
* Antwerp
* Gabès
* Kaunas (June)
* Szczuczyn
* Iași
* Lviv
* Wąsosz
* Jedwabne
* Farhud
* Ponary
* Tykocin
* Kamianets-Podilskyi
* Babi Yar
* Odessa
* Švenčionėliai
* Kaunas (October)
* Rumbula
* The Holocaust (1941–1945)

|

1942|

* Dünamünde Action
* Dzyatlava massacre
* Sarny massacre

|

1943|

* Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
* Kielce cemetery massacre
* Operation Harvest Festival

|

1944|

* Ardeatine massacre
* Luduș massacre
* Sărmașu massacre
* Kremnička and Nemecká massacres (1944–1945)

|

1945|

* Deutsch Schützen
* Topoľčany pogrom
* Kraków pogrom
* Tripolitania pogrom
* Cairo pogrom

|

1946–1999|

| 1946|

* Kielce
* Kunmadaras
* Miskolc

|

1947|

* Fajja bus attacks
* Haifa Oil Refinery
* Aden
* Aleppo
* Manama

|

1948|

* Tripoli
* Djerada
* Ben Yehuda Street bombing
* Cairo bombings
* Kfar Etzion massacre

|

1949|

* Menarsha synagogue attack

|

1950s–1960s|

* Night of the Murdered Poets (1952)
* Scorpion Pass massacre (1954)
* Shafrir synagogue shooting (1956)
* Tripoli pogrom (1967)
* Purge of Polish Jews (1968)

|

1970s|

* Avivim school bus bombing (1970)
* Munich massacre (1972)
* Lod Airport massacre (1972)
* Ma'alot massacre (1974)
* Kiryat Shmona massacre (1974)
* Ben Yehuda Street bombing (1975)
* Coastal Road massacre (1978)
* Nahariya massacre (1979)

|

1980s|

* Paris synagogue bombing (1980)
* Antwerp summer camp attack (1980)
* Antwerp bombing (1981)
* Vienna synagogue attack (1981)
* Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack (1982)
* Ras Burqa massacre (1985)
* Neve Shalom Synagogue massacre (1986)
* Purim stabbing (1989)

|

1990s|

* Cairo bus attack (1990)
* Crown Heights riot (1991)
* AMIA bombing (1994)
* Dizengoff Street bus bombing (1994)
* Beit Lid massacre (1995)
* Purim massacre (1996)
* Island of Peace massacre (1997)
* Mahane Yehuda Market bombings (1997)

|

21st century|

| 2000–2009|

| 2001|

* Dolphinarium discotheque massacre
* Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing

|

2002|

* Ghriba synagogue bombing
* Hadera attack
* Yeshivat Beit Yisrael massacre
* Passover massacre
* Matza restaurant suicide bombing
* Hebrew University bombing
* Rishon LeZion bombing
* Matzuva attack
* Hebron ambush

|

2003|

* Istanbul
* Tel Aviv Central bus station massacre
* Davidka Square bus bombing
* Café Hillel bombing
* Maxim restaurant suicide bombing
* Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing
* Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing

|

2004–2009|

* Beersheba bus bombings (2004)
* Ashdod Port bombings (2004)
* Tel Aviv shawarma bombing (2006)
* Jerusalem yeshiva attack (2008)

|

2010–2019|

* Itamar attack (2011)
* Burgas bus bombing (2012)
* Toulouse and Montauban shootings (2012)
* Jerusalem synagogue massacre (2014)
* Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting (2014)
* Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting (2014)
* Hypercacher kosher supermarket siege (2015)
* Tel Aviv shooting (2016)
* Halamish stabbing (2017)
* Pittsburgh synagogue shooting (2018)
* Poway synagogue shooting (2019)
* Jersey City shooting (2019)
* Monsey Hanukkah stabbing (2019)

2020–present|

* Israel riots (2021)
* Beersheba attack (2022)

| 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel|

* Be'eri
* Ein HaShlosha
* Holit
* Kfar Aza
* Kissufim
* Nahal Oz
* Netiv HaAsara
* Nir Oz
* Nirim
* Re'im
* Yakhini

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