{"id":638817,"date":"2026-10-07T06:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638817\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T06:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T06:20:13","slug":"israel-marks-three-years-since-hamas-led-7-october-2023-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638817\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel marks three years since Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened on 7 October?published at 07:18 BST<\/p>\n<p>07:18 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The burnt exterior of a house with a charred rocking chair and table, an Israeli flag laid over\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/4ee5711f-acbb-483f-a536-dcc8242beae4.jpg.webp\"  width=\"594\" height=\"334\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A torched house at Kibbutz Nir Oz photographed in December 2023, two months after the Hamas-led attack<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shortly after sunrise on 7 October 2023, the Hamas-led attack on Israel began. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It started with a barrage of thousands of rockets fired into the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As rockets flew, an estimated 6,000 Hamas-led militants breached the border into Israel in dozens of places, entering in cars, on motorbikes or in some cases by paraglider. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They attacked military bases and stormed through multiple kibbutzim &#8211; small villages &#8211; near the border, burning homes and killing civilians. One kibbutz, Nir Oz, saw 41 people killed and 76 kidnapped out of its 400-strong community <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The attackers also targeted a music festival in the Negev desert. They gunned down partygoers at Nova festival, killing 378 people and kidnapping 44 more, according to an IDF tally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, around 1,200 people killed and 251 others were taken as hostages, making it the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Israel responded to the 7 October attacks by launching a military offensive in Gaza, triggering a war which has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man walks past a damaged bar in Tel Aviv. It is night time\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/e0cd891b-9450-4e55-ad40-f67e959548c4.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on 7 October. This street in Tel Aviv was among the places damaged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened on 7 October?published at 07:18 BST 07:18 BST Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, A torched house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-638817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}