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Oct. 7: Hamas terrorists burst through border, slaughter Israelis in their homes
At least 300 killed, 1,590 injured, hostages taken in multi-pronged infiltration from Gaza, as terrorists attack civilians, soldiers at 22 sites; thousands of rockets fired at Israel
- Palestinians terrorists transport an abducted Israeli civilian from Kibbutz Nir Oz into the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (AP/Hatem Ali)
- Graphic content: The bodies of Israeli civilians killed by Hamas terrorists lie covered in the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023, after an unprecedented infiltration into Israel by hundreds of gunmen from the terrorist organization from Gaza. (Oren ZIV / AFP)
- Police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
- Salvo of rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza City toward Israel on October 7, 2023 (EYAD BABA / AFP)
- Israelis being kidnapped and taken into Gaza by Hamas terrorists, October 7, 2023, as seen in pixelated videos from social media screened on Israeli television. (Channel 12 screenshot)
- Palestinians drive a captured Israeli military vehicle in Gaza City on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
- Cars are burning after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a parking lot and a residential building in Ashkelon, October 7, 2023 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
- Armed terrorists in southern Israel, having infiltrated from Gaza, on the morning of October 7, 2023 (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
- Israeli police officers evacuate a family from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
- A rocket fired from Gaza into southern Israel hits Ashkelon, October 7, 2023 (Edi Israel/Flash90)
- An ultra-Orthodox Jew peers out of a building after a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
- Israeli fire brigade teams douse the blaze in a parking lot outside a residential building following a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on October 7, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
- Israeli rescue teams evacuate a wounded person near the southern city of Sderot on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian terror group Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack on Israel, firing a barrage of rockets from Gaza and sending ground units to kill or abduct Israelis. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
- People dance in celebration of the attacks that the Hamas terror group carried out against Israel, at Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)