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On 7 October 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. The attack coincided with the Jewish religious holiday Simchat Torah.
The war began when Hamas-led militant groups launched a surprise attack on Israel on 7 October, which involved a rocket barrage and a few thousand militants breaching the Gaza–Israel barrier and attacking Israeli civilian communities and military bases. During this attack, 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, including 815 civilians.
Hamas has attacked Israeli civilians, including using suicide bombings, as well as launching rockets at Israeli cities. On 2023 October 7, Hamas launched an attack against Israel, marking an escalation in the longstanding conflict. During this assault, Hamas fighters killed 1,139 people and took approximately 250 Israeli civilians and soldiers ...
October 9, 2023 at 11:53 PM. Palestinian group Hamas has launched its largest-ever attack on Israel, with militants launching thousands of rockets and storming through the Gaza border in an ...
August 6, 2024 at 6:23 PM. BEIRUT (AP) — Hamas on Tuesday named Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader in a dramatic sign of the ...
The Associated Press. October 9, 2023 at 1:22 AM. Israel says it has brought in special forces to try to wrest control of four sites from Hamas fighters in response to the militant group's ...
The Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is a major part of the Israel–Hamas war. Starting on 7 October 2023, immediately after the Hamas-led attacks, Israel began the bombing of Gaza Strip; on 13 October, Israel began ground operations in Gaza, and on 27 October, a full-scale invasion was launched. Israel's campaign, called Operation Swords of ...
In response to the attack, Israel has been hitting Hamas-controlled Gaza, home to 2.3 million people, with a near continuous bombardment of airstrikes. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says ...