On October 7, 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Mar 6, 2025 · Israel is an unprecedented search for self-understanding, a moment of reckoning unseen even during the traumatic 1973 Yom Kippur War. The wounds of Oct. 7 have been torn open again as harrowing revelations emerge from independent investigations conducted by the IDF and Shin Bet. The findings expose a devastating failure within one of the world ...

Mar 4, 2025 · Israel’s domestic security service on Tuesday assumed responsibility for failing to heed warning signs of a planned Hamas attack before the militants’ devastating strike on Oct. 7, 2023.

Feb 27, 2025 · “Oct. 7 was a complete failure,” said one military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. A central misconception was that Hamas, which seized control of Gaza ...

The Israel-Hamas War is the war between Israel and Palestinian militants, especially Hamas, that began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an assault on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people in Israel.

October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 85 days remain until the end of the year.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — slaughtering babies, committing sexual violence, burning whole families alive, and taking 240 civilians hostage.

Hamas's October 7 massacre: Reliving the day, hour by hour To honor the memory of the fallen and those taken hostage, the Jerusalem Post has created a timeline of the harrowing events of...

Oct 7, 2024 · Hamas shocked the world — and forever changed the Middle East — when hundreds of its fighters flooded into Israel on Oct. 7, massacring border communes, murdering revelers at a music festival...

Oct 6, 2024 · Since the horrific attack of Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas on Israel, the ensuing war between Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas militants has caused vast collateral damage that has completely...