Serangkaian serangan bersenjata terukur yang dipimpin oleh kelompok militan Palestina Hamas dari Jalur Gaza ke wilayah tetangga Israel di amplop Gaza bermula pada 7 Oktober 2023 yang merupakan hari Sabat dan hari libur Yahudi. Serangan ini mengawali perang Israel−Hamas, hampir tepat 50 tahun setelah Perang Yom Kippur bermula pada 6 Oktober 1973. Hamas dan kelompok bersenjata Palestina lainnya menamakan serangan ini Operasi Banjir Al-Aqsa (atau Air Bah; bahasa Arab: عملية طوفان الأقصى, translit. ʿamaliyyat ṭūfān al-ʾAqṣā),[1] sementara serangan ini disebut Sabtu Hitam (bahasa Ibrani: השבת השחורה),[22] atau Pembantaian Simchat Torah (הטבח בשמחת תורה),[23] dan disebut di seluruh dunia yaitu serangan 7 Oktober.[24][25][26]
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (9 October 2023). "Fact Sheet: Israel and Palestine Conflict (9 October 2023)". ReliefWeb (dalam bahasa English). United Nations (UN). Diarsipkan dari versi asli(Press release) tanggal 13 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 13 October 2023. On Saturday, 7 October — a Jewish sabbath day, the end of the weeklong Jewish festival of Sukkot, and a day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War — Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood, a coordinated assault consisting of land and air attacks into multiple border areas of Israel.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
Sachs, Natan (7 October 2023). "This Will Be a Pyrrhic Victory for Hamas" (dalam bahasa English). The Atlantic. Diarsipkan dari versi asli(News article) tanggal 25 November 2023. Diakses tanggal 25 November 2023. But this Hamas victory might prove Pyrrhic. In fact, Hamas itself might have been surprised by the extent of its initial success.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
^ ab59 policemen have been killed in the conflict,[1] two of which died in the West Bank,[2][3] leaving a total of 57 killed in the initial 7 October attack by Hamas.
^Herzl, Tova (20 October 2023). "אל תשתמשו במילה "שואה" בקשר לטבח". Ynet (dalam bahasa Hebrew). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 27 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 27 October 2023.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)Pemeliharaan CS1: Bahasa yang tidak diketahui (link)
^"Biden Energy Adviser to Discuss Lebanon Border Issues on Israel Trip". Asharq Al-Awsat. November 20, 2023. Diakses tanggal November 20, 2023. In the months before the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants who run the Gaza Strip, Hochstein said the United States was exploring the possibility of resolving the longstanding border dispute between Lebanon and Israel.
^Jason Burke (November 9, 2023). "A deadly cascade: how secret Hamas attack orders were passed down at last minute". The Guardian. Diakses tanggal November 20, 2023. Analysts said other objectives of the 7 October attacks probably included halting efforts to normalise relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, further undermining the Palestinian Authority, distracting from Hamas’s failure to deliver services or break the blockade of Gaza, and provoking a violent reaction from Israel that would mobilise its own supporters in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere.
^Michaelson, Ruth (7 October 2023). "Condemnation and calls for restraint after Hamas attack on Israel". The Guardian. ISSN0261-3077. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 7 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 7 October 2023. International leaders condemned an unprecedented incursion by Palestinian militants into southern Israel, while governments across the Middle East called for restraint after an attack that shook the Israeli security establishment. [...] The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said his organisation would send support to Israel. 'Over the coming days the Department of Defense will work to ensure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself and protect civilians from indiscriminate violence and terrorism,' he said.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)
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^"Hamas's attack was the bloodiest in Israel's history". The Economist. 12 October 2023. ISSN0013-0613. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 14 October 2023. Diakses tanggal 15 October 2023. The most searing historical comparison predates Israel's founding. Not all of Hamas's victims were Israeli, and not all of the Israeli dead were Jewish. But under reasonable assumptions about the ethnic make-up of those killed in this and previous attacks, the last time before October 7th that this many Jews were murdered on a single day was during the Holocaust.Parameter |url-status= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)