October 7 attacks
Sign in to saveAlso known as October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Simchat Torah Massacre, Black Sabbath, Deluge, Al-Aqsa Flood, October 7 Massacre, 7 October 2023 Massacre in Israel, surprise attack on Israel
The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups in 2023, during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The attacks, which began the ongoing Gaza war, were the first large-scale invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In response, Israel launched a large-scale military operation in Gaza.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a coordinated military attack from Gaza into southern Israel during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, marking the first major invasion of Israeli territory since 1948. The attack triggered an ongoing war, with Israel responding by launching a large-scale military operation in Gaza.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Gaza–Israel conflict
- Has part
- Nir Oz attack
- Named after
- Simchat Torah
- Country
- Israel
- Located in
- Southern District
- Location
- Gaza envelope
- Image
- מבנה מגורים שרוף בקיבוץ בארי לאחר התקפת הפתע. צילום-יואב קרן.jpg
- Number of deaths
- 1200
- Number of injured
- 3300
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- point in time
- 2023-10-00
- has effect
- Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
- perpetrator
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad
- Commons category
- October 7 attacks
- target
- Israelis
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Terrorism
- topic's main category
- Category:October 7 attacks
- has cause
- Jihadism
- native label
- عملية طوفان الأقصى
- has characteristic
- sexual and gender-based violence in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- depicted by
- Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre
- number of perpetrators
- 5000
- armament
- shoulder-fired missile
- significant person
- Jonathan Steinberg
- start time
- 2023-10-07
- end time
- 2023-10-09
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Encyclopedic overview
Belligerents
Hamas
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