On 7 October 2023, in the opening attacks of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Hamas militants carried out a massacre at Be'eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.
One of the houses in Be'eri in the massacre's aftermath
The courtyard of a destroyed home after the attack
Israeli president Isaac Herzog in Be'eri, on 15 October 2023.
One of the many houses which was burned and destroyed during the attack
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
