The October 7 attacks were a coordinated assault on southern Israel by Hamas and other armed groups from the Gaza Strip, who broke through the border fence and attacked military posts, towns and kibbutzim and a music festival near Re'im. About 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and around 250 were taken hostage into Gaza, making it the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Israel declared war on Hamas and launched an air and ground campaign in Gaza, which caused a very high number of deaths and a severe humanitarian crisis. The attacks and the war that followed had wide effects across the Middle East, and led to cases in international courts.
Before and after
- 20 September 20232023 killing of Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh
- 22 September 2023Death of Giorgio Napolitano
- 22 September 2023Missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters
- from 24 September 2023 to 3 October 2023Expulsion of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians
- October 2023October 7 attacks
- from October 2023 to January 2026Gaza Strip famine
- 7 October 2023Gaza War
- 7 October 2023Battle of Re'im
- 7 October 2023Gaza genocide
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