On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups launched a large-scale attack from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, marking the first invasion since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Initiated on the Jewish holiday Simchat Torah, the assault included a barrage of over 4,300 rockets and breaches of the Gaza–Israel barrier, resulting in massacres in multiple communities such as Be'eri and Kfar Aza. Approximately 1,195 people were killed, including civilians and security forces, with around 250 taken hostage to the Gaza Strip. The attack was widely condemned as terrorism by 44 governments, while some blamed the occupation of Palestinian territories as a cause. US President Joe Biden called it the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
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Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups codenamed the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,3839 while in Israel they are sometimes referred to as Black Saturday4041 or the Simchat Torah Massacre.4243 Internationally, and commonly in Israel,44 the attacks are called the October 7 attacks.454647
Background
Further information: Background to the Gaza war and Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, since the Six-Day War in 1967.484950
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), are a Palestinian nationalist51 Islamist movement. They formed in 1987, and are the largest 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 Recent statements suggest a shift in focus toward ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and establishing a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. Hamas has been responsible for numerous suicide bombings5455 and rocket attacks targeting Israeli civilians.56 Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK have designated Hamas a "terrorist organisation". In 2010 it attempted to derail the peace talks between Israel and the PA. In 2017, it adopted a new charter, removing antisemitic language and shifting focus from Jews to Zionists.57 Scholars differ on Hamas' objectives, with some saying it seeks a Palestinian state within 1967 borders58 while others believe Hamas still seeks the destruction of Israel.5960
Warnings
Before the attack, Saudi Arabia warned Israel of an "explosion" as a result of the continued occupation,61 Egypt had warned of a catastrophe unless there was political progress,62 and Palestinian Authority officials gave similar warnings.63 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
See also: Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023
Throughout 2023, increased settler attacks displaced hundreds of Palestinians.65 In April, clashes occurred around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a contested holy site in Jerusalem. In May, clashes occurred between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.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 September 13, five Palestinians were killed at the border.68 Israel said it found explosives hidden in a shipment and halted all exports from Gaza;69 Hamas denied Israel's claims.70 Reuters quoted Palestinians who said that the several-day ban affected thousands of families.71 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.72 Hamas also allowed Palestinians to resume protests at the Gaza–Israel barrier.73 On September 29, Qatar, the UN, and Egypt mediated an agreement between Israeli and Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip to reopen closed crossing points and deescalate tensions;74 the total number of Gazans with work permits in Israel stood at 17,000.75
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."76 Israel denied receiving such a warning,77 although Michael McCaul, Chairman of the US House Foreign Relations Committee, said that warnings were given three days before the attack.78
Operational planning
For two years, Hamas used hardwired phone lines within Gaza's tunnel network, nicknamed the "Gaza metro", to covertly communicate, evade Israeli intelligence, and plan Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.7980
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.81 On September 12, Hamas posted a video of its fighters training to blast through the border.82 After the attack, the IDF said that Hamas had extensively studied the military bases and settlements near the border.8384
The Wall Street Journal has accused Iran of being behind the attack.85 U.S. officials86 and Iran have denied this.87
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.8889 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.90
The National Resistance Center of Ukraine alleged that the Russian Wagner Group trained Hamas militants ahead of the attack, specifically on attack methods and using drones to drop explosives. The National Resistance Center, citing intelligence from Belarusian partisans, said that Wagner mercenaries provided Hamas with drones during exercises in Africa.91[better source needed]
Israeli intelligence failure
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.92
The official investigation by Israel's domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet, found that the agency failed to provide the warning that could have prevented the massacre. The head of Shin Bet convened a situation assessment in the early hours of October 7 to discuss the intelligence received from Gaza, however in the end only a low-level warning was issued and a small team specialising in thwarting limited attacks was sent to the south. According to the report the counterintelligence service of Hamas had been highly effective in preventing the gathering of intelligence in Gaza.93
According to the findings of the investigation, Shin Bet warned the Prime Minister that Hamas was not deterred and objected to the prevailing divide-and-rule policy of the Israeli government.94
According to Haaretz, 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.9596
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.97
A Haaretz investigation found that incompetence in the IDF's higher ranks, including refusal to acknowledge Hamas's preparations for the attacks, was a major cause of the October attacks. The IDF had reduced funding and manpower dedicated to observing Hamas, focusing primarily on rocket sites and ignoring Hamas training and troop movements as well as the activities of the Hamas military leadership. Simulated exercises of Hamas attacks found the Gaza division's response lacking. Cultural conformity was fostered among officers and dissent discouraged. Officers often silenced subordinates to maintain their positions, contributing to a toxic atmosphere where questioning higher-ups' decisions about Hamas was met with apprehension, resulting in most junior officers giving up.98
Attacks
For a more comprehensive list, see List of military engagements during the Gaza war.
At around 6:30 a.m. Israel Summer Time (UTC+3) on Saturday, October 7, 2023, Hamas announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.99 Al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif gave a speech mentioning Israel's 16-year blockade of Gaza, Israeli incursions in West Bank cities, violence at Al-Aqsa mosque, Israeli settler violence with the army's support, the confiscation of property and demolition of homes, arbitrarily detaining Palestinians for years until "they wither from cancer and disease", Israel's neglect for international law, American-Western support, and international silence. He then described the operation, that they had drawn the line, and that it was to end "the last occupation on Earth".100101 Shortly thereafter, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh made a similar announcement in a televised address.102
Participating and supporting organizations
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 Maoist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), confirmed their participation in the operation through their military spokesman Abu Khaled,103 saying it had lost three fighters in combat with the IDF.104 The PFLP (a Palestinian Marxist–Leninist / secular nationalist political party)105 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. Nine individuals employed by UNRWA were accused by Israel of participation, and after a months-long internal investigation, were fired for possible involvement.106
Rocket fire
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 4,300 projectiles from Gaza,107108 killing twelve and injuring dozens, most of them from the Bedouin community.109110111 Explosions were reported in areas surrounding Gaza and in the Sharon Plain, including Gedera, Herzliyya, Beersheba, Tel Aviv, and Ashkelon.112113 Air raid sirens were activated in Beer Sheva, Jerusalem, Rehovot, Rishon Lezion, and Palmachim Airbase.114115 Hamas issued a call to arms, with Deif calling on "Muslims everywhere to launch an attack".116 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.117
Incursions into southern Israel
Simultaneously, around 6,000 Palestinian militants and civilians infiltrated Israel from Gaza breaching the border in 119 places.118119120 The infiltration was executed using trucks, pickup trucks, motorcycles, bulldozers, speedboats, and powered paragliders.121122123
The Sderot police station was reported to have come under Hamas control, with militants killing 30 Israelis, including policemen and civilians.124 Early in the attack they deliberately destroyed the computer systems at the police station. This disabled communication and delayed the response to the attacks.125126127
Images and videos appeared to show heavily armed and masked militants dressed in black fatigues riding pickup trucks128129 and opening fire in Sderot, killing dozens of Israeli civilians and soldiers and setting homes on fire.130 Other videos appeared to show Israelis taken prisoner, a burning Israeli tank,131132 and militants driving Israeli military vehicles.133 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.134135136 The UN's Pramila Patten and Commission of Inquiry concluded in their reports that the authenticity of these alleged instruction documents claimed to have been retrieved from Hamas militants could not be substantiated.137138 Some of the militants wore body cameras to record the acts, presumably for propaganda purposes.139
The morning of the attack, an Israeli military spokesman said that the militants from Gaza had entered Israel through at least seven locations140 and invaded four small rural Israeli communities, the border city of Sderot, and two military bases from both land and sea.141 Israeli media reported that seven communities came under Hamas control, including Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza, Magen, Be'eri, and Sufa.142 The Erez Crossing was reported to have come under Hamas control, enabling militants to enter Israel from Gaza.143 Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai said there were 21 active high-confrontation locations in southern Israel.144
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.145
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.146147148 Militants killed civilians at Nir Oz,149150 Be'eri, and Netiv HaAsara, where they took hostages151152 and set fire to homes,153 as well as in kibbutzim around the Gaza Strip.154 Around 50 civilians were killed in the Kfar Aza massacre, 108 in the Be'eri massacre, and 15 people in the Netiv HaAsara massacre.155156 Militants killed 16 or 17 Thai and Nepalese employees during the Kibbutz Alumim massacre.157158
Other militants carried out an amphibious landing in Zikim.159160 Palestinian sources claim that the local Israeli army base was stormed.161 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 66 soldiers dead162 and taking seven hostage.163164 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.165
| Attack | Location | Israelis and foreign nationals | Destruction in the area | Militants from Gaza | Start time166 | End date | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Pop.167 | Total killed | Civilians killed 168 | Combatants killed169 | Hostages and POWs | Number | Killed | POWs | ||||
| October 7 attacks on Israel170171 | Gaza envelope and southern Israel | total pop. = | total = | total = | total = | total = | Gaza–Israel barrier, military bases, kibbutzim, moshavim | total ≈ | total ≈ | total = | 06:29 | |
| Erez Crossing attack172173174 | Erez crossing | 9 | 0 | 9 | 3 | crossing allegedly made unusable. | 120 | 9175 | 06:42 | October 7, 23:00 | ||
| Battle of Sderot176177 | The town of Sderot | 33,002 | 53 | 39 | 14 | 0 | police station computer server and connections178 | 41 | 39 | 2 | 06:58 | October 8, 09:30 |
| Nova music festival massacre179180181182 | Music festival near Re'im | ~3500183 | 378 | 344 | 34 | 44 | cars | 110+ | 20 | 08:20 | October 7, 15:00 | |
| Battle of Re'im184 | Re'im headquarters185Kibbutz Re'im | 422 | 22 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 100 | 49 | 07:51 | October 10, 20:00 | ||
| Be'eri massacre186187 | Kibbutz Be'eri | 1,071 | 132 | 101 | 31 | 32 | Surveillance tower188 | 300+ | 100+ | 18 | 06:42 | October 9 |
| Nahal Oz attack189190 | Nahal Oz lookout base | 162 | 53 | 0 | 53 | 10 | Base set on fire. | 215 | 45+ | 06:45 | October 7, 17:00 | |
| Nahal Oz attack191 | Kibbutz Nahal Oz | 479 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 180+ | 80 | 07:05 | October 7, 17:30 | ||
| Kfar Aza massacre192 | Kibbutz Kfar Aza | 787 | 80 | 56 | 24 | 19 | Weapons tower destroyed with a drone193 | 250 | 101194 | 3 | 06:42 | October 10, 17:00 |
| Zikim attack195196197 | Zikim Training Base | 141 | 7 | 0 | 7198 | 120 | 9 | 07:24 | October 7, 14:30 | |||
| Zikim attack199200 | Zikim beachKibbutz Zikim | 918 | 18 | 17 | 1201 | 0 | 38 | 32+202 | 06:36203 | October 11 | ||
| Nir Oz attack204205206 | Kibbutz Nir Oz | 380 | 47 | 43 | 4 | 76207208 | 500+ | 1+209210 | 06:49 | October 7, 12:30 | ||
| Psyduck music festival massacre211 | Music festival between Nir Oz and Nirim | ~100212 | 17 | |||||||||
| Nirim attack213 | Kibbutz Nirim | 416 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 150 | 65 | 06:40 | October 7, 14:00214 | ||
| Netiv HaAsara massacre215216 | Moshav Netiv HaAsara | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 06:42 | October 7, 12:47 | ||
| Alumim massacre217 | Kibbutz Alumim | 531 | 62 | 57218 | 5 | 5 | 100 | 40 | 10 | 07:01 | October 7 | |
| Kissufim massacre219 | Kibbutz Kissufim | 294 | 44 | 16 | 28 | 1 | 150 | 55220 | 06:55 | October 12 | ||
| Attack on Holit221 | Kibbutz Holit | 210 | 13+ | |||||||||
| Ein HaShlosha attack222 | Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha | 353 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 1223 | 1 | 06:58 | October 7, 15:15 | |
| Nir Yitzhak attack224 | Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak | 633 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 90 | 1225 | 07:30 | October 7, 15:00 | ||
| Battle of Nir Am226 | Kibbutz Nir Am | 726 | none | none | none | none | ||||||
| Battle of Ofakim | The town of Ofakim | 35,506 | 47 | |||||||||
| Battle of Sufa | Kibbutz Sufa | 233 | 3 | |||||||||
| Mefalsim attack227228 | Kibbutz Mefalsim | 1,050 | 13229 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 200+ | 07:07 | October 10, 17:00 | |||
| Kerem Shalom attack230 | Kibbutz Kerem Shalom | 220 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 100 | 9231 | 07:00 | October 8 | ||
Table Footnotes:
Nova music festival
Main article: Nova 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.232233234 This mass killing had the largest number of casualties out of a number of massacres targeting Israeli civilians in communities adjacent to Gaza that were part of the October 7 attack, alongside those at the communities of Netiv HaAsara, Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, and Holit.235
At 6:30 a.m., around sunrise, rockets were noticed in the sky. Around 7:00 a.m., a siren warned of an incoming rocket attack, prompting festival-goers to flee.236 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.237238
The details of the hostages' whereabouts and conditions are not publicly known.239240241 The massacre at the festival has been described as the largest terror attack in Israel's history242243244 and the worst Israeli civilian massacre ever.245
Kfar Aza
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.246247 While the exact number of Israelis killed is unknown, as of October 15, 2023, 52 were listed as dead and another 20 or more were missing.248249
Be'eri
Main article: Be'eri massacre
On the morning of the attack, around 70 Hamas militants250251 carried out a massacre at Be'eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza Strip. At least 130 people were killed in the attack,252 including women (such as peace activist Vivian Silver),253 children, and infants,254[better source needed] claiming the lives of 10% of the community's residents. Dozens of homes were also burned down.255 Several newspapers called the massacre an act of terrorism; some compared the brutality of the atrocities to that of ISIS.256 Hostages were taken, leading to a standoff with the IDF.257258259 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.260
Yakhini
A squad of Hamas militants that arrived in a van attacked the moshav of Yakhini.261262263 There were seven casualties in the moshav,264265266 including a border police officer.267268 An IDF major in the Maglan unit was also injured.269 The community's security coordinator was on holiday in Thailand at the time and remotely directed the moshav's 18-person protection team's response.270 Yamam and Sayeret Matkal IDF units eventually arrived and killed all the attackers.271
Ein HaShlosha
Approximately 90 militants infiltrated kibbutz Ein HaShlosha, killing four civilians, looting, shooting, and burning houses.272273 An 80-year-old Argentinian-Israeli woman died after her home was set on fire and she was unable to escape.274 A standoff between the attackers and the residents' security team lasted six hours.275 The leader of the security team, who was in his sixties, was killed in the firefight.276 A 63-year-old grandmother was also among those killed in the attack.277 A 39-year-old Israeli-Chilean woman was shot eight times.278
Thirty survivors were discovered in the kibbutz three days after the massacre,279 14 of whom were Thai nationals.280
Psyduck music festival
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.281
Re'im military base
Main article: Battle of Re'im
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.282283 It was later reported that Hamas took control of the base and took several Israeli soldiers captive284 before the IDF regained control later in the day.285286 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.287
Nir Am
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.288289290
Ofakim
Main article: Battle of Ofakim
In the town of Ofakim, 47 were people killed in the October 7, attacks.291 Ofakim was the furthest point reached by the initial intense attacks on October 7. A large proportion of the population of the town is working-class Jews of North African descent.292 Ofakim was one of the first locations where a "hostages situation" was reported.293 The militants targeted the parts of the town where the housing was older and did not have individual bomb shelters in every home, and locals reported that the invaders had shot people who were trying to get to communal shelters.294
Rahat
A number of Qassam Brigades militants infiltrated the Bedouin city of Rahat, north-east of Ofakim and 30 kilometres from Gaza, representing the furthest extent of the incursions by Palestinian militant groups on October 7. Over a month after the initial attack, two militants were arrested by Israeli police.295
Failed plans
A Hamas group carried intelligence information and maps guiding it to the border of the West Bank, suggesting it had intentions of going all the way to the West Bank.296
According to a report in Asharq Al-Awsat, two Hamas units had plans of reaching Shikma Prison in Ashkelon (13 km from the Gaza Strip) with the aim of freeing Palestinian inmates. One cell got lost and ended up in Sderot, at which point they were told to change their plans and operate in Sderot. A second cell which was operating in Zikim was commanded to go up to Ashkelon, but the cell was completely gunned down by Israeli security forces in Zikim.297
Hostages taken
Main article: Gaza war hostage crisis
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,298 and Israel confirmed hostages had been taken.299
In Be'eri, up to 50 people were taken hostage; after an 18-hour standoff between militants and IDF forces, they were freed.300 Hostages were also reported taken in Ofakim, where policemen led by Chief Superintendent Jayar Davidov engaged Palestinian militants in a shootout on October 7; Davidov and three of his men were killed, and the IDF later rescued two Israeli hostages in the suburb of Urim.301302 There were reports of militants killing and stealing family pets.303
Hamas took many hostages back to Gaza. On October 16, they said they were holding 250 hostages304 and that it had done so to force Israel to release its Palestinian prisoners.305 In addition to hostages with only Israeli citizenship, almost half of the hostages were foreign nationals or held multiple citizenships.306 Some hostages were Negev Bedouins.307 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".308 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.309 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.310
Casualties
Further information: Casualties of the Gaza war
Gender percentage of October 7 deaths| Group | Source | % female | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | AOAV311 | 26.6% | 312 |
| Civilians | Walla/TOI | 36% | 313 |
| Civilians | AOAV | 41% | 314 |
| Military | AOAV | 11% | 315 |
| Other security forces | AOAV | 15% | 316 |
The total number killed during the attack, based on social security data, is 1,175,317 of whom 379 were from Israeli security forces and 796 were civilians (725 Israeli and 71 foreign).318 26.6% of those killed were female.319 Initially up to 1,400 people were reported killed; on November 10, this was revised to 1,200,320 before being revised further in December. The casualties included 36 children; the youngest person killed was 10 months old, and 25 were over age 80.321322 The attack was the deadliest day in Israel's history.323 Some, including then-US President Joe Biden, have said it was also the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.324 Others such as historian Enzo Traverso and Holocaust and Genocide scholar Raz Segal have warned against invoking the Holocaust in relation to October 7.325326 Segal condemned the "weaponizations of Holocaust memory" by Biden, Israeli politicians and others, saying it is done "not in order to stand with powerless people facing the prospect of genocidal violence, but to support and justify an extremely violent attack by a powerful state and, at the same time, distort this reality."327
The attack left over 3,400 wounded,328 and 247 soldiers and civilians were taken hostage.329 On October 19, Israeli officials reported an additional 100 to 200 missing.330 By July 2024, the number of missing was down to 1.331 Israeli casualties include about 70 Arab Israelis, predominantly from Negev Bedouin communities.332 The attack affected a province with a population of 4,000,000 Israelis, while the war displaced 300,000 Israelis.333
On October 7, 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.334 As of October 10, over 100 people had been reported killed in the Kfar Aza massacre, with the total death toll unknown.335 Nine people were fatally shot at a bus shelter in Sderot.336 At least four people were reported killed in Kuseife.337 At least 400 wounded were treated in Ashkelon,338339 while 280 others were reported in Beer Sheva, 60 of whom were in serious condition.340 In the north, injuries from rocket attacks were reported in Tel Aviv.341 At least 49 Israeli children and adolescents under the age of 19 were killed in the attack.342
Former Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. striker Lior Asulin was among those killed in the Re'im music festival massacre.343 The head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, Ofir Libstein, was killed in an exchange of fire with the militants.344 The police commander of Rahat, Jayar Davidov, was also killed.345 The IDF confirmed that 247 of its soldiers had been killed.346 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;347348 and Lieutenant Colonel Eli Ginsberg, commander of the LOTAR Counter-terrorism Unit School.349 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 October 9.350 Israeli peace activist Hayim Katsman was killed in Holit. Peace activist Vivian Silver, originally thought to be taken hostage, was later confirmed to have been killed during the attack on Be'eri.351 Israel Hayom photographer Yaniv Zohar was killed in Nahal Oz.352 The oldest person killed was Moshe Ridler, a 91 years old Holocaust survivor from kibbutz Holit. 353 The youngest victim was Naama Abu Rashed, a Bedouin-Israeli, a baby delivered in an emergency procedure after the mother, who was nine months pregnant, was shot and killed in the attack. The baby survived for 14 hours before passing away on October 7.354355
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.356 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.357358
Hamas took at least 247 Israelis hostage and transported them to Gaza.359 On October 8, Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it was holding at least 30 captives.360 At least four people were reportedly taken from Kfar Aza.361 Videos from Gaza appeared to show captured people, with Gazan residents cheering trucks carrying dead bodies.362 Four captives were later reported to have been killed in Be'eri,363 while Hamas said that an IDF airstrike on Gaza on October 9 killed four captives.364 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.365 Edan's body was identified ten days later as one of the casualties of the Kfar Aza massacre.366 American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin was one of the kidnapped. On October 11, 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".367 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."368
Identification of remains
According to Chen Kugel, head of the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, hundreds of bodies arrived at the institute in a state "beyond recognition".369 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.370
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.371
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.372
Revision of casualty numbers
On November 10, Israel revised its casualty count from 1,400 to 1,200 after realizing that some bodies that were badly burned373 were those of Hamas fighters.374375 This included 859 civilians,376 283 soldiers,377378 58 policemen, and 10 Shin Bet members.379
At the end of May 2024, using social security data, this was further revised to 1,175: 725 Israeli civilians (including 36 children), 71 foreign nationals, and 379 security forces.380 One person, peace activist Bilha Inon, was classed as missing381 until August 6, 2024, when the IDF confirmed that she died at Netiv Ha'asara, with her husband.382
Reported atrocities
See also: Bearing Witness (2023 film) and War crimes in the Gaza war
Sexual violence
Main article: Sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel
Israeli women and girls were reportedly raped, assaulted, and mutilated by Hamas militants during the incursion, an allegation Hamas denies.383384385 In the months following the attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported on December 21, there was "mounting evidence of sexual violence, based on survivor accounts, first responders and witnesses."386 Critics of Hamas denounced what they said was gender-based violence, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.387388
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."389 Testimonies from those at the Shura Base where the victims bodies were brought, such as IDF Captain (Res.) Maayan, who is also a dentist, and Shari Mendes, a volunteer, claimed that there were signs of sexual abuse, including mutilations, broken limbs, and broken pelvises.390391392 Some of the released hostages also shared testimonies of sexual violence during their time in Gaza.393
Some witness testimony was subsequently discredited, including the claim shared by among others Shari Mendes of the alleged stabbing of a pregnant woman and her fetus and several alleged rapes.394395396 Haaretz reported in April 2024 that "according to a source knowledgeable about the details, there were no signs on any of those bodies [at Shura Base, to which most of the bodies were taken for purposes of identification] attesting to sexual relations having taken place or of mutilation of genitalia." It also alleged that due to the lack of forensic pathologists at most a quarter of the bodies could be fully examined, and for at least one hundred bodies conclusions could not be drawn given their deteriorated state.397 Israeli forensic pathologists in charge of the process later clarified that all bodies had been examined, and some were disfigured or burned.398
A two-month New York Times investigation by Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz, and Adam Sella, Screams Without Words, 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 said to have been based on video footage, photographs, GPS data from mobile phones, and interviews with more than 150 people.399 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.400 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".401 Al-Jazeera concluded that the "allegations of widespread and systematic rape", allegations it said "were used repeatedly by politicians in Israel and the West to justify the ferocity of the subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip", were false.402 On March 25, 2024, The New York Times reported that new video had surfaced, contradicting the account of an Israeli military paramedic previously interviewed by the Times that two teenagers murdered in Be'eri had also been sexually assaulted.403
Pramila Patten, the UN's special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, reported in March 2024 that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe sexual assaults including rape and gang rape took place in multiple locations during the October 7 attacks. Patten also reported receiving "clear and convincing information" that some of the hostages held by Hamas had suffered rape and sexualized torture and that there were "reasonable grounds" to believe such abuses were "ongoing".404 The report405 stemmed from an unprecedented fact-finding mission to "verify information" and was not a full and legal investigation as Patten's office lacks such a mandate. It was thus unable to establish anything beyond a reasonable doubt.406 As American journalist Azadeh Moaveni reported: "Her office didn't have a mandate to investigate sexual crimes on the ground and had never undertaken such a mission before. I was told by multiple sources at the UN that her trip was a matter of fierce controversy within the organisation."407 Patten's report also did not determine that the sexual violence was systematic in nature, did not attribute it to Hamas or other factions, did not find evidence of it being planned, and remained agnostic on its scope. Patten was also unable to find some evidence that Israeli politicians insisted existed, including video and photographic evidence of rape.408409 The report concludes that "specific attribution of the violations would require a fully-fledged investigation".410 Later, Patten, the UN's special representative, requested permission to investigate Hamas' alleged crimes, on condition that her team should also be allowed to access Israeli detention facilities to examine claims of sexual violence by Israeli soldiers, but the request was denied.411
The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory released an in-depth investigative report on June 12, 2024, which found that both Hamas and Israel had committed sexual violence and torture, along with intentional attacks on civilians.412413 The report was created by information compiled from interviews of victims, witnesses, open sourced items, forensic medical reports, and satellite imagery.414 Israel had previously announced its refusal to cooperate with the inquiry and rejected the allegations.415 The commission found that Palestinian forces were responsible for incidents "indicative of sexual violence" at the Re'im festival and the Nahal Oz military outpost, as well as several kibbutzim.416417 The report concluded there was a "pattern indicative of sexual violence" by Palestinian forces during the attack, and that Hamas and other militant groups were responsible for gender-based violence "by willful killings, abductions, and physical, mental and sexual abuse".418419 The commission was unable to independently verify testimony of genital mutilation, sexual torture and rape, citing a lack of access to witnesses and crime scenes, and Israel's obstruction of its investigations.420 It also found no evidence that Palestinian forces had been ordered to commit sexual violence.421 In addition, the Commission found some specific allegations to be false or contradictory.422
In June 2024 The Times published a detailed investigative report concluding that Israel's claims about the scale and the formally sanctioned, systematic nature of sexual assaults did not stand up to scrutiny.423
As of January 2025, the former head of the security cases division in Israel's Southern District prosecutor's office said that no case was being filed due to a lack of evidence and complainants.424
Torture and mutilation
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described photos that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government privately showed him: "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."425 Israeli forces in Kfar Aza and Be'eri426 reported that they found bodies of victims mutilated. One IDF commander falsely told an I24NEWS reporter that 40 babies had been killed,427428429 out of what one estimate described as at least 100 civilian victims;430431432 Instead, two babies are known to have died as a result of the attack, one from a bullet, and one in a hospital shortly after birth.433434
ZAKA volunteers acting as first responders spread other false reports of this type.435436 In one, a ZAKA volunteer said groups of children were found tied up and burned alive.437 Other reported atrocities included sexual assaults, rapes, and mutilations; some victims were reportedly bound, and some victims' bodies desecrated.438 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."439 Other videos show attackers shooting at children, executing men in civilian clothing, throwing grenades into civilian shelters, and an attempted decapitation.440441442
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.443
Israeli security agencies released videos that the Times of Israel described as alleged confessions of Hamas attackers, in which the subjects said they were ordered to kill, behead, cut off limbs and rape.444 Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Physicians for Human Rights Israel stated that these alleged confessions were likely extracted under torture, should not be accepted as credible evidence, and called on the Israeli government to cease their production and publication.445446
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.447 Haaretz reported in April 2024 that no such forensic evidence exists.448 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.449 The Intercept called into question the credibility of some of these testimonies, also cited in other reports such as the New York Times' Screams Without Words.450
A Haaretz 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", Haaretz found that "Most are supported by extensive evidence, but a few have been proved untrue, providing ammunition to deniers of the historic massacre." Haaretz 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.451
Haaretz 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.'"452 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 a murdered child aged six or 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.453 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.454
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also repeated some of the evidence given by the same ZAKA volunteer, describing a scene the volunteer said he found in Be'eri: "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."455456 Haaretz reported in December 2023 that "no children 6 or 7 or near those ages were killed on Be'eri".457 The Intercept similarly said no one killed in Be'eri matched this account and expressed mystification that U.S. media kept citing ZAKA, even though their testimony was debunked in Israeli media.458
On October 20, 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.459460 Many victims were described as having soot in their trachea, indicating that they burned to death.461
Two or three decapitations of adults or military-age teenagers have been confirmed, one or two IDF soldiers (beheaded after death in combat) and a foreign worker.462 Adir Tahar, age 19, from the Golani Brigade, was killed in combat by multiple grenades on October 7. After his death, his head was removed and taken to the Gaza Strip where it was found later in the freezer of an ice cream store, inspiring speculation about why it had been taken there. His body was identified by DNA and buried incomplete. The IDF tried to hide from his family that there was only an incomplete body to bury.463464 A second burial ceremony was held after his head was recovered.465
Unsubstantiated reports of beheaded babies and children
See also: Hamas baby beheading hoax
Several Israeli sources said in the aftermath of the attack that there were bodies of multiple beheaded infants in Kfar Aza. Later the Israeli government said it could not confirm the veracity of the claim and several investigations found it to be untrue.
In its investigation Le Monde concluded that the unverified claim is false, although it became a significant element in the information war, with Israeli authorities intentionally maintaining ambiguous messaging that helped spread the narrative despite lack of confirmation: "Israel has done nothing to fight it and has more often tried to instrumentalize it than deny it, fueling accusations of media manipulation." Some opponents of Israel in turn also instrumentalized the false claim; Pro-Palestinian influencer Sulaiman Ahmed used the claim to deny the reality of Hamas killings, while conspiracist Jackson Hinkle used it to argue that Israel "has lied about everything." The issue continues to be sensitive, with pro-Palestinian influencers and conspiracists seeing it as "fake news" spread by a "genocidal army of occupation", while on the Israeli side questioning it is likened to Holocaust denial. "Denied internationally, the rumor remains alive and well within Israel."466
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.467468469 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.470 U.S. President Biden later falsely claimed that he had seen photographic evidence of militants beheading children; the White House subsequently clarified that Biden was alluding to news reports of beheadings, which have not contained or referred to photographic evidence.471 NBC News called reports of "40 beheaded babies" unverified allegations,472 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".473 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.474 As of October 12, CNN had extensively reviewed online media content to verify Hamas-related atrocities but found no evidence to support claims of decapitated children.475
An Israeli ZAKA volunteer reported on October 14 seeing children's bodies with severe injuries and burns; the volunteer said that some of the bodies appeared to have been decapitated, but the exact circumstances were not clear.476
According to The Jerusalem Post, which reprinted an article from the Israeli website The Media Line (whose founder, Felice Friedson, was praised by The Jerusalem Post and is a contributor to it),477 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.478 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.479 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".480
On December 4, Haaretz reported that "unverified stories [had been] disseminated by Israeli search and rescue groups, army officers and even Sara Netanyahu".481482 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".483 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.484 "Why would an army officer invent such a horrifying story?", Hashabbat asked, adding, "I was wrong."485 Haaretz also reported that some testimony came from reservist officers.486 Haaretz further reported that "according to sources including Israel's National Insurance Institute, kibbutz leaders and the police", one baby was killed on October 7, who was killed with her father in Kibbutz Be'eri.487 Al Jazeera English reported that the claims of babies being beheaded and killed en masse were false.488
Use of hostages as human shields
During the October 7 assault, Human Rights Watch reported two instances where Palestinian militants used Israeli civilians as human shields. In Be'eri, fighters held civilians in a home and threatened to kill them if Israeli forces attacked. When the Israelis did fire, it led to the deaths of militants and hostages. In Nahal Oz, a fighter used 17-year-old Tomer Arava Eliaz to move between homes and potentially block attacks, and Tomer was later found dead. A purported "hostage detention plan" suggested using hostages as human shields, but its authenticity could not be verified by Human Rights Watch.489
Israeli counterattack
Further information: 2023–2024 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip evacuations, Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and Siege of Gaza City
After the initial breach of the Gaza perimeter by Palestinian militants and civilians,490491 it took hours for the Israeli military to send troops to counterattack.492 The first helicopters were launched from the north of Israel, and arrived in Gaza an hour after fighting began.493 Israel had difficulty determining which outposts and communities were occupied, and distinguishing between Palestinian militants and the soldiers and civilians on the ground.494
The Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip began at 9:45am, and at 10:00am Israel claimed responsibility for the attacks.495 The IDF declared a state of emergency for areas within 80 kilometers (50 mi) of the Gaza border and began targeted actions in Gaza.496497
In a televised broadcast, Netanyahu said: "We are at war."498 He also said that the IDF would reinforce its border deployments to deter others from "making the mistake of joining this war".499 In a later address, he threatened to "turn Gaza into a deserted island" and urged its residents to "leave now".500 Israel's Security Cabinet voted to undertake 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.501 The Israel Electric Corporation, which supplies up to 80% of Gaza's electricity, cut off power to the area.502
Friendly fire and use of the Hannibal Directive
Main article: Hannibal Directive
According to a December 2023 Ynet article, there was also an "immense and complex quantity" of friendly-fire incidents during the October 7 attack.503504 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.505506 The directive was first employed at 7:18 AM at the Erez border crossing to prevent soldiers stationed there from being taken captive. At 10:32 AM, an order was issued to all battalions in the area to fire mortars towards Gaza. Documents obtained by Haaretz and the testimonies of soldiers show that use of the Hannibal Directive was "widespread" after an order was issued to the Gaza Division at 11:22 AM that "Not a single vehicle can return to Gaza." At 2:00 p.m., all units were instructed not to leave border communities or chase anyone into Gaza, as the border was under heavy, indiscriminate fire. At 6:40 p.m., the army launched artillery raids at the border area "very close" to Kibbutz Be'eri and Kfar Azza.507 It is unclear how many hostages were killed by friendly fire.508509 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.510511
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.512 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 Nova music festival massacre.513 The Israeli police denied the report.514 In the aftermath of the attack, Israel buried hundreds of burned cars that were at the scene of the attacks "To preserve the sanctity of those murdered by Hamas."515 Subsequent investigation has determined that militants had been instructed not to run so that the air force would think they were Israelis.516 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, some helicopters started laying down fire without prior authorization.517
A report by a UN Commission published in June 2024 found that the Israeli security forces used the Hannibal Directive in several instances on October 7. In one example, a tank crew confirmed that they had applied the directive when they shot at a vehicle suspected of carrying kidnapped Israeli soldiers. The report also said that in two instances, Israeli forces "had likely applied the Hannibal Directive," resulting in the killing of up to 14 Israeli civilians.518519
A July 2024 Haaretz investigation revealed that the IDF ordered the Hannibal Directive to be used, adding: "Haaretz does not know whether or how many civilians and soldiers were hit due to these procedures, but the cumulative data indicates that many of the kidnapped people were at risk, exposed to Israeli gunfire, even if they were not the target."520 One of these decisions was made at 7:18 A.M., when an observation post reported someone had been kidnapped at the Erez crossing, close to the IDF's liaison office. "Hannibal at Erez" came the command from divisional headquarters, "dispatch a Zik." The Zik is an unmanned assault drone, and the meaning of this command was clear, Haaretz reported.521
Haaretz further reported that at at 6:40 P.M. military intelligence believed militants were intending to flee back to Gaza in an organized manner from near Kibbutz Be'eri, Kfar Azza and Kissufim. In response the army launched artillery at the border fence area, very close to some of these communities. Shells were also fired at the Erez border crossing shortly thereafter. The IDF says it is not aware of any civilians being hurt in these bombardments.522 Haaretz notes one case in which it is known that civilians were hit, in the house of Pessi Cohen at Kibbutz Be'eri. 14 hostages were in the house as the IDF attacked it, with 13 of them killed.523
A source in the Southern Command of the IDF told Haaretz:
Everyone knew by then that such vehicles could be carrying kidnapped civilians or soldiers...There was no case in which a vehicle carrying kidnapped people was knowingly attacked, but you couldn't really know if there were any such people in a vehicle. I can't say there was a clear instruction, but everyone knew what it meant to not let any vehicles return to Gaza.524
The same source stated that on 2:00 P.M. a new instruction was given that "was meant to turn the area around the border fence into a killing zone, closing it off toward the west."525
A September 2024 report by Australia's ABC News covers the use of the Hannibal Directive.526 The report quotes former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez as saying: "This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without." The report also notes Tank officers confirming their interpretation of the Directive, firing on vehicles returning to Gaza, potentially with Israelis on board. "My gut feeling told me that they [soldiers from another tank] could be on them," tank captain Bar Zonshein told Israel's Channel 13. Captain Zonshein is asked: "So you might be killing them with that action? They are your soldiers."527 ABC News adds that it was not only soldiers but also Israeli civilians who were targeted.528
Reactions
Allegations of genocide
Main article: Allegations of genocide in the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel
See also: Gaza genocide
According to several international law and genocide studies experts, Hamas' assault amounted to genocide.529530531 Legal and genocide experts have condemned the attack,532533 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.534535536 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.537
Palestinian response
Hamas
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.538
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."539
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]".540
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."541 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".542
Hamas denied killing any children in the attack.543 Its official announcement referring to the event rejected the "falsehood of the fabricated allegations" promoted by some Western media outlets.544 When asked about the Re'im music festival massacre, where 260 civilians were murdered, Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzook replied that it was a "coincidence", and that the attackers may have thought these were soldiers "resting".545546
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".547
Palestinian Authority
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.548 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.549 On October 16, he declared that "Hamas' actions don't represent the Palestinians".550551
On October 30, Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian Christian official, said the attacks were an act of resistance launched against the IDF.552
In March 2024, Fatah – the party that controls the Palestinian Authority – released a statement accusing Hamas of "having caused the return of the Israeli occupation of Gaza". The Fatah comments came in response to criticism by Hamas and its allies over Abbas' appointment of Mohammed Mustafa as the new PA prime minister following the resignation of Mohammed Shtayyeh.553
On May 16, 2024, Mahmoud Abbas said that Hamas's unilateral military action on October 7 provided Israel with justification for attacks in the Gaza Strip. He emphasized opposition to harming civilians. In response, Hamas expressed regret for the remarks, asserting that the attack elevated the Palestinian cause and yielded strategic gains.554
Palestinian public opinion
In November 2023, as a result of Israeli actions in Gaza following the October 7 attacks, Hamas' popularity among Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank increased significantly.555 In a survey conducted on November 14 by the Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD), 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%)."556557558 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.559560561 Only 10% of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank said they believed Hamas committed war crimes during the attack on Israel.
By 2024, support for the attacks had significantly dropped. According to a poll published in September by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR), 57% of respondents in the Gaza Strip said the decision to launch the offensive was incorrect, while 39% said it was correct. In the West Bank, most still considered the attacks justified despite a decline in support.562
Israeli response
Main article: Israeli government response to the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
Israel said that Hamas "made a grave mistake" in launching its attack and pledged that "Israel will win".563 The IDF declared a "state of readiness for war",564 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.565 Residents in areas near Gaza were asked to stay inside, while civilians in southern and central Israel were "required to stay next to shelters".566 Roads around Gaza were closed by the IDF.567 Tel Aviv's streets were also locked down.568
After the attack, Israel declared a heightened state of preparedness for conflict.569 The IDF declared a state of readiness for war, and Netanyahu convened an emergency gathering of security authorities. Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai announced that a "state of war" existed, following what he called "a massive attack from the Gaza Strip".570 He also announced the closure of all of southern Israel to "civilian movement" and the Yamam counterterrorism unit's deployment to the area.571 The IDF's chief spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said four divisions were deployed to the area, augmenting 31 preexisting battalions.572
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.573
Ben Gurion Airport and Ramon Airport remained operational, but multiple airlines canceled flights.574 Israel Railways suspended service in parts of the country and replaced some routes with temporary bus routes,575576 and cruise ships removed the ports of Ashdod and Haifa from their itineraries.577
Capture and interrogation of militants
Main article: Confessions of detained Palestinians in the Gaza war
Following the attack, more than 600 militants were captured in Israel. Israel has claimed the interrogation of 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.578579580 Israel's aim was to support its narrative and counter Hamas narratives.581
However, a number of sources have questioned if Israel forced Palestinians to make confessions. Some of the militants in the videos appear to be bloodied and in pain.582 On November 14, AP News analyzed that a confession video Israel released showed the captured militant was speaking "clearly under duress".583 Palestinians detainees released after October 7 have reported that Israeli authorities order them to make statements, beat them severely, and sometimes ask them to make statements with a gun pointed to their face.584585 The UN and reports by human rights organizations such as B'Tselem and media outlets have confirmed Israeli systematic use of torture during the Gaza War, including rape, gang-rape, sexualized torture and mutilation of detained Palestinian men, women and children by Israeli guards, including during interrogations.586
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International stated that taped alleged confessions released by the Israeli military were likely extracted under torture, violate international law and basic human rights, and should be considered inadmissible as credible evidence.587 They also called on the Israeli government to cease publishing such taped "confessions".588 Physicians for Human Rights Israel also denounced alleged taped confessions, citing "severe concern that the interrogations included the use of torture."589
Arab Israelis
Arab Israeli politicians, including the United Arab List leader Mansour Abbas and Arab Knesset member Ayman Odeh, condemned the Hamas-led attack on Israel.590591 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."592
International
See also: International reactions to the Gaza war
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's policy of occupying the Palestinians for the attack. The UAE, Bahrain, and China have amended their initial declarations to expressly denounce the killing and abduction of Israeli civilians.593594595 According to a poll conducted by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy between November 14 and December 6, 2023, 95% of Saudis did not believe that Hamas had killed civilians in its attack on Israel.596
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."597
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 reports of sexual and gender-based violence against Israeli women and girls.598599600
In response Sarah Hendrik, an official from UN Women, one of the UN agencies subject to these criticisms, stated that "within the UN family, these investigations are led by the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights", and that her agency did not have the legal competence to determine culpability.601 Azadeh Moaveni reported that claims of double standards or lack of condemnation by UN Women were incorrect, as:
UN Women has not inveighed against conflict-related sexual violence in Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Colombia or Mali, and its condemnations of rape in the DRC, Central African Republic, Syria and Iraq came years after the events themselves. Where it has responded more swiftly (and then only within months), it has done so in places where the UN had teams on the ground investigating and documenting abuses, or as a result of UN-wide appeals. UN Women has never named a specific group or perpetrator. According to its own protocols, it has been vociferous in responding to October 7 – as many as eight times in the first two months – through statements, social media posts and session remarks.602
Moaveni also notes that what was demanded of UN Women was to go beyond its mandate and name in an unprecedented way before a proper investigation by the mandated UN bodies had been carried out, and that if it had done so it would have significantly damaged its relationships with grassroots women's groups.603
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.604605 The U.S. Department of Justice filed charges in absentia against six Hamas leaders for their involvement in the attacks.606
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."607 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."608
On May 20, 2024, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court requested arrest warrants against Haniyeh, Deif and Yahya Sinwar for crimes committed during the October 7 attacks, as part of the court's ongoing investigation in Palestine.609610 On November 21, an arrest warrant was issued for Deif accusing him of crimes including murder, sexual violence, torture, hostage taking, extermination and cruel treatment of the civilian population.611612 The charges against Deif were dropped in February 2025 after ICC prosecutors confirmed he had been killed in an airstrike.613
See also
- Denial of the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel
- List of major terrorist incidents
- List of massacres in Israel
- Outline of the Gaza war
- Ramadan Offensive (2003)
- September 11 attacks
- Timeline of the Gaza war
- Gaza genocide
- Hurricane (Eden Golan song)
Notes
- ^ 1,175 according to Israeli social security data614[verification needed]
- ^ Includes the remains for the last victim which were not found until August 6, 2024615
- ^ 79 foreign nationals616
- ^ including 20 under 15617
- ^ It is unclear how many of them were killed by friendly fire or as a result of the Hannibal Directive. A Ynet article stated that there was an "immense and complex quantity" of friendly-fire incidents during the October 7 attack.618619620621
- ^ This excludes the invading Palestinian militants who died in the subsequent fighting with Israeli armed personnel.
- ^ or Deluge; Arabic: عملية طوفان الأقصى, romanized: ʿamaliyyat ṭūfān al-ʾAqṣā, Arabic pronunciation: [ʔamal.ij.jat tˤuː.faːn al.ʔaq.sˤaː], usually romanized as "Tufan Al-Aqsa" or "Toofan Al-Aqsa".
- ^ Hebrew: השבת השחורה, romanized: hashevet hischura, Hebrew pronunciation: [hä.ʃe̞.ve̞t his.χu.ʁä]
- ^ Hebrew: הטבח בשמחת תורה, romanized: hatbach beshmachat tura, Hebrew pronunciation: [hät.bäχ be̞ʃ.mä.χät tu.ʁä]
- ^ 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.622623
- ^ Sources that say Hamas calls for Israel's destruction cite the 1988 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.
- ^ The Washington Post said the Palestinians were trying to explode the device,624 while Al-Jazeera said that a Palestinian Explosives Engineering Unit was trying to defuse the device.625
- ^ When militants arrived.
- ^ "Of the total of 1,004 victims whose gender is identified, 735 (73.4%) of these were male, and 278 (26.6%) female."626
- ^ "But the Walla news site has published data by age and gender for 756 of the murdered civilians for which information is available...two girls...11 female...162 women...59 women...69 women...seven women."627 That totals 272 female killed out of 756 total civilians dead.
- ^ "Civilians has 217 male and 153 female killed.628
- ^ "Military has 298 male and 38 female killed.629
- ^ "Police and rescue" has 22 male and 4 female killed.630
- ^ Cases against Haniyeh and Sinwar were discontinued, as both had been killed by this date.
- ^ Israel has identified Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif as the key individuals in planning the attacks, the leadership abroad and the rest of the political wing were not directly involved.631632
Further reading
- Yaron, Lee. 10/7: 100 Human Stories. St. Martin's Press, New York, 2024. Winner of the Jewish Book Council Everett Family Foundation Award in 2024.633
- Yingst, Trey. Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza. HarperCollins, 2024.
External links
- All-Party Parliamentary Group Israel-UK. 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report Chaired by Lord Roberts of Belgravia, 18 March 2025
- Crowd-sourced documentation of massacres
- Mapping the massacres
- Saturday October Seven (Documentation of massacres)
- Ex-Israeli Defense Minister's Recollection of October 7, 2023
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or Deluge; Arabic: عملية طوفان الأقصى, romanized: ʿamaliyyat ṭūfān al-ʾAqṣā, Arabic pronunciation: [ʔamal.ij.jat tˤuː.faːn al.ʔaq.sˤaː], usually romanized as "Tufan Al-Aqsa" or "Toofan Al-Aqsa". /wiki/Arabic_language ↩
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Hebrew: השבת השחורה, romanized: hashevet hischura, Hebrew pronunciation: [hä.ʃe̞.ve̞t his.χu.ʁä] /wiki/Hebrew_language ↩
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Hebrew: הטבח בשמחת תורה, romanized: hatbach beshmachat tura, Hebrew pronunciation: [hät.bäχ be̞ʃ.mä.χät tu.ʁä] /wiki/Hebrew_language ↩
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Population data from 2022 unless otherwise stated.[152][153] ↩
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Usually includes only on duty police, military, and other professional armed security forces. ↩
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Attendance at the festival was reported to be 3,500 but figures vary.[166] After the attack, relatives searching for missing loved ones said more than one thousand were at the event at the time of the attack.[167] Some festival attendees estimated 3,000–4,000 people.[167] An emergency medic who responded to the massacre at the festival placed attendance at 3,000.[168] ↩
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The bodies of 50 more militants were found outside of the kibbutz ↩
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Six officers and one recruit were killed in the fighting before the militants withdrew.[181] ↩
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Three more soldiers were killed in the area on 11 October ↩
It is suspected but not confirmed that the final six militants were also killed ↩
Militants crossed into Israeli territorial waters on speedboats at this time, and engaged with the Israeli Navy three minutes later /wiki/Israeli_Navy ↩
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including the Bibas family /wiki/Kidnapping_of_the_Bibas_family ↩
Includes nine people who died en route to or in the Gaza Strip during the attack ↩
Only one militant's body was found in the kibbutz, but it is suspected that other casualties were retrieved by their comrades ↩
An additional 64 militants were killed outside of the kibbutz ↩
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Approximately 100 people took part in the event.[142] ↩
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Eight militants were killed outside of the kibbutz on 8 October ↩
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