2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
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. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups named the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, while in Israel they are referred to as Black Saturday or the Simchat Torah Massacre, and internationally as the 7 October attack. The attacks consequently started the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.
Satellite view of widespread fires in Israel around the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023
Blood stain on a house in Be'eri
Militant abducting a man during the Re'im music festival massacre that left at least 360 people dead and others taken hostage
Child's bedroom, Kfar Aza, after 7 October Hamas Attacks
Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya, is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
The aftermath of the 1994 Dizengoff Street bus bombing in Tel Aviv
Yagur Junction bombing was a suicide attack on the Egged 960 bus in 2002. Hamas was responsible for about 40% of the 135 suicide attacks during the Second Intifada.
Ismail Haniyeh became the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority in 2006
Hamas rally in Bethlehem