October 13 2025 Hamas. Prior to the october 7 attack, israel thought it had contained, deterred, and appeased hamas—by a mixture of building a wall around gaza, fighting small scale prior. On 7 october 2023, hamas and other palestinian armed groups killed approximately 1,200 persons in israel, of whom at least 809 were civilians, including women, children and older.

Prior to the october 7 attack, israel thought it had contained, deterred, and appeased hamas—by a mixture of building a wall around gaza, fighting small scale prior. After hamas attacked israel on october 7 and called for protests in other arab nations the following friday, the media speculated about a wave of terror on u.s.