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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Israel–Hamas war, and the Middle Eastern crisis Satellite view of fires in the Gaza envelope on October 7, 2023 Date October 7–8, 2023 Location Gaza Envelope, Southern District, Israel Result Israeli defensive ...
Israeli intelligence officials initially stated that they had no warnings or indications of the 7 October attack by Hamas, despite Israel exercising extensive monitoring over Gaza. [7] Furthermore, the United States warned the Israeli government of the possibility of a surprise attack from Hamas a few days before the incident. [8]
Hamas itself has taken full credit for its leadership of the 7 October attacks. [21] [22] [23] In January 2024, the group released a report about the attacks titled "Our Narrative", which claims that its armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades avoided harming civilians yet admits "some faults" occurred as a result of the general chaos and rapid collapse of the Israeli defenses.
For the first time, a group of hostages taken captive by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel is released from Gaza. They are freed hours after a four-day cease-fire in the war takes effect.
The roughly 40-page document did not give a date for the attack, but outlined “point by point” the kind of deadly incursion that Hamas carried out in Israeli territory in October, according to ...
Hamas has controlled the Gaza Strip since winning the most recent elections in 2006, held a year after Israel’s withdrawal from the enclave, since which time its borders and airspace have been ...
An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups [t] has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023. It is the fifth war since 2008 in the Gaza–Israel conflict, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the Yom Kippur War in 1973. [77]
By October 8, Israeli forces had regained control over Sderot. [13] However, Israeli forces continued to battle pockets of Hamas gunmen in Southern Israel, including in Magen, and occasional gunfire was heard in Sderot and other locales, where Israeli forces were sweeping the area for any remaining Hamas infiltrators. [14]