Israel on October 7 marked the somber anniversary of the Hamas attack that killed more than 1,200 people and took some 250 hostages. Some 100 hostages remain in captivity, many of whom are believed dead. Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and the EU.
October 7: The Hamas Attack That Changed Israel And Sparked War
- By RFE/RL
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Palestinians break into the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border fence on October 7, 2023. The extremist group Hamas carried out an unprecedented, multi-pronged attack on Israel, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday.
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A young Israeli woman, Noa Argamani, desperately calls out to her partner as she was abducted by the Hamas extremist group by motorcycle at a music festival in one of the defining images of the October 7 attack. Argamani and three other hostages were rescued in June by Israeli security forces.
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The body of a man lies among rubble following an attack by Hamas gunmen on Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on October 10, 2023.
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The body of a man lies among rubble following an attack by Hamas gunmen on Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on October 10, 2023.
The body of a man lies among rubble following an attack by Hamas gunmen on Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on October 10, 2023.
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The site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on October 12, 2023. Israeli officials say victim testimonies and evidence gathered by rights groups indicate that Hamas extremists carried out widespread sexual and gender-based crimes during their attack in southern Israel.
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A picture of an abducted girl is stuck to the door of a safety room with bullet impacts following the deadly October 7 attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, on November 21, 2023.
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People visit the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revellers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the one-year anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, on October 7.
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An attendant walks past a mural with portraits of the victims at the site of the Nova music festival on October 7.
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Emergency personnel respond after a rocket apparently fired from Gaza hits Kfar Chabad near Tel Aviv on October 7.
