October 7 attacks
terrorist attack and massacre in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 carried out by the Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorist Group Hamas
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The October 7 attacks were a coordinated terrorist attack[1].
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Southern District[3]
- Country: Israel[4]
- Instance of: massacre[5], offensive[6], raid[7], border incident[8]
- Named after: Al-Aqsa Mosque[9], Simchat Torah[10], October 7[11]
- Location: Gaza envelope[12]
- Part of: Gaza war[13], Gaza–Israel conflict[14]
- Commons category: October 7 attacks[15]
- Armament: rocket-propelled grenade[16], AK-47[17], hand grenade[18], shoulder-fired missile[19], SVD Dragunov[20], PK[21], RPG-7[22]
- Has part(s): Re'im music festival massacre[23], Alumim massacre[24], stand-off in Be'eri and Ofakim[25], Be'eri massacre[26], Ein HaShlosha massacre[27], Holit massacre[28], Kfar Aza massacre[29], Kissufim massacre[30], Nahal Oz attack[31], Netiv HaAsara massacre[32], Nir Oz attack[33], Nir Yitzhak massacre[34], Nirim attack[35], Battle of Re'im[36]
- Target: Israelis[37]
- Start time: October 7, 2023[38]
- End time: October 9, 2023[39]
- Point in time: October 2023[40]
- Has cause: Palestinian political violence[41], 1988 Hamas charter[42], Jihadism[43]
- Topic's main category: Category:October 7 attacks[44]
- Number of deaths: 67[45]
- Depicted by: Bearing Witness to the October 7th Massacre[46]
- Number of injured: 3300[47]
- Partially coincident with: list of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2023[48]
- Has effect: Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip[49], Gaza war[50], Middle Eastern crisis[51]
- Has characteristic: sexual and gender-based violence in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel[52]
- Native label: عملية طوفان الأقصى[53]
- Investigated by: Permanent United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Israel Palestine conflict[54]
- Time period: timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023[55]
- Significant person: Mohammed Deif[56], Yahya Sinwar[57], Jonathan Steinberg[58]
Why It Matters
October 7 attacks has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]