Understanding October 7, 2023
Explore the events leading to October 7 and hear from those who experienced it firsthand.
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Understanding the Events of October 7 and September 17, 2023
Democrats, Republicans, U.S. media and Israeli officials want you to believe that October 7 happened in a vacuum, as if events prior to October 7 didn't exist.
I created this website to provide evidence that October 7 did not occur in a vacuum and how Israel has been the perpetrator since the early part of the 20th century when Soviet Union and European Jewish refugees migrated to Palestine, formed armed terror gangs and mass murdered thousands of Palestinians in their homes at the direction of Ben-Gurion, the founder of Israel and first Israeli prime minister, forcing nearly a million Palestinians from their homeland to establish the State of Israel on Palestinian land:
Israel and the U.S. have been demanding thank you notes from their Palestinian victims and demand total and complete subservience to state-sponsored, US-backed Israeli occupation and terror for over 75 years.
*How events prior to Oct. 7 led to the events of Oct. 7, 2023.
*How Netanyahu is personally responsible for the October 7 attacks, as Netanyahu "Swatted the Hornet's Nest" for over two years prior to October 7, precisely because Netanyahu wanted Hamas to attack Israel so Netanyahu could use such an attack as justification for Netanyahu's massive attack and genocide of the Palestinian people AND TO DELAY HIS CRIMINAL TRIAL
*What surviving victims and Israeli soldiers said about the events of Oct. 7 - what they saw, what they did, and what they believe.
*How Israeli prime ministers have long practiced "SWATTING THE HORNET'S NEST" to initiate Israeli attacks and incur greater IDF excursion into Palestinian land.
*How Benjamin Netanyahu is the Donald Trump of Israel, charged with multiple felonies on bribery, fraud, witness intimidation charges; and how Netanyahu literally started a war to delay his criminal trial featuring 47 state prosecution witnesses against Defendant Netanyahu.
*Why many Israelis - especially the surviving families of the Israeli hostages - demand a full independent investigation of Oct. 7, but Netanyahu refuses to permit any such investigation.
*How Palestinians have suffered over 150 (one-hundred and fifty) "OCTOBER SEVENTH'S" since Israel invaded Syria and Palestine on June 4, 1967.
*How pursuant to the Geneva Conventions, a civilian population enjoys a legal right to form and maintain armed resistance groups, period.
*How Netanyahu's claim that over 1200 Israelis were killed by Hamas is highly inaccurate.
*How Israeli soldiers and police killed hundreds of Israelis civilians, concertgoers.
*Why a growing number of Israeli voters and soldiers demand a full, independent investigation of the events that led to October 7, 2023.
*How Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian territories, maintaining an illegal military blockade of Gaza, and remains in violation of U.N. Res. 242 ordering Israel out of the Palestinian territories.
What Americans Need to Know About a Majority of Israelis and the Israeli government
The Israeli Democracy Institute conducts internal polling of Israelis for a long time.
Israelis are monolithic in their commonly-held religious beliefs and opinions that NAKBA 1947 was necessary to establish the State of Israel pursuant to their Zionist belief they call, "Greater Israel," which means Israelis believe every inch of Palestinian territories belong to Israel, AND parts of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq also belong to Israel.
This most pivotal and seminal of Israeli facts is carefully avoided in the U.S. media.
Instead, Democrat and Republican leaders lie to the American people, telling them the Israelis just want to live in Peace, side-by-side with Palestinians, but Hamas won't allow peace to take place - which is one of the biggest lies ever told by U.S. leaders to the American people.
A majority of Israelis religiously believe that every inch of the Palestinian territories belong to Israel and ALL PALESTINIANS are simply troublemaking squatters living on Jewish land and are in need of extermination and expulsion.
Israelis also religiously believe that parts of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq also belong to Israel, (Greater Israel) and those indigenous Muslims and Arabs living in those states are simply troublemaking squatters living on borrowed time and Jewish land.
Until Donald Trump became President, U.S. lawmakers were too afraid to tell the American people the truth about the true religious motivation, intent and plan that Israelis call, "Greater Israel."
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris consistently repeated the Zionist lie that Israelis just want to live in Peace, side-by-side with Palestinians, but Hamas won't allow peace to take place.
But just recently Donald Trump's UN Ambassador Elise Stefanik publicly stated that "Israel has a Biblical right to the West Bank."
Here's the deal with Hamas:
Hamas was formed in 1987 as a direct result and response to Israel MOWING THE GRASS repeatedly over the decades, since NAKBA 1947 and the Israeli invasion and occupation of Palestine.
The Palestinian people were sick and tired of being murdered by Israelis in their homes and on their land for DECADES, so in 1987 the Palestinian people exercised THEIR LEGAL, LAWFUL RIGHT to form armed resistance groups - pursuant to the Geneva Conventions - to attempt to free Palestinians from Israeli occupation, to stop Israeli mass murder and mass imprisonment of 2.3 million Palestinians, and to STOP THE IDF from kidnapping thousands of Palestinian men, women and children from their homes, hauling them back to Israel and holding them hostage in Israeli jails and prisons for months and years.
Please recognize that in 1994 Israel imprisoned millions of Palestinians behind 23-foot tall, barbed-wire, concrete walls in the world's largest open air prison camp called Gaza - where they still live today.
Over half the population of Gaza are young men under 30 who were born in captivity behind Israeli prison walls and subjected to a lifetime of state-sponsored economic disparity, as the Israeli per capita income is about $55,000 a year, whereas Palestinian per capita income is about $849 a year. What could possibly go wrong?
Republicans and Democrats apply the old bi-partisan racist trope that, "blacks are poor because they're just lazy" to Palestinians in Gaza: "Palestinians are poor because they're lazy and inferior to Israelis."
In 2017 Hamas changed their original charter from "driving Jews into the sea" to a non-violent policy of peaceful co-existence contingent upon Palestinian statehood based on 1967 pre-invasion borders - the borders in place the day before June 4, 1967 when Israeli forces invaded Palestine, Syria and began the Occupation.
2017: Hamas Changes Charter Seeking Peaceful co-existence with Israel Based on Palestinian statehood on the 1967 pre-invasion Israeli and Palestinian borders
Unfortunately U.S. and Israeli officials and media have COMPLETELY IGNORED Hamas 2017 major policy change towards peace, as Israelis are not interested in peaceful co-existence with the Palestinians people; instead Israelis seek to implement "Greater Israel," kill Palestinians and steal Palestinian land.
In 2017 the Israeli publication Ha'aretz reported this major change in policy and some Israelis took note of such drastic policy change towards peace and wrote about it in Ha'aretz:
After some initial delays, Hamas presented its new charter on Monday, as Israel was marking its Independence Day. As was expected, Hamas' new charter accepts the possibility of a Palestinian state along the 1967 "Green Line" border, considered by some a moderation of the Gaza group's position.
Israel responded to the charter even before Hamas' press conference, saying it did not represent any real change by the Gaza group.
Hamas was expected to present the charter at the Intercontinental hotel in the Qatari capital of Doha, but the hotel canceled, prompting Hamas to scramble to find an alternative location, eventually holding the event at the Doha Sheraton.
Hamas' leader in exile, Khaled Meshal, said at the press conferences that "Hamas objects to any plan offering an alternative homeland" for the Palestinians.
He said the group "will not give up any parcel of Palestinian land and strives to liberate all of the Palestinian lands."
However, in a sign of alleged moderation, he said "Hamas is willing to negotiate a sovereign and independent state with Jerusalem as its capital" as the basis for a deal with Israel.
Meshal also said that "Hamas' struggle is not with Jews or their faith, but is a struggle against Zionism and its agressions."
The group also vowed "not to recognize the Zionist entity," saying that "opposition to the occupation through any means is a basic right that includes an armed struggle."
He also said the group would not give up on the right of return for Palestinians who fled or were exiled when Israel was established in 1948, a key point of contention in negotiations for Israelis and Palestinians.
Smoke screen
Israel responded by saying that "Hamas' document is a smoke screen. We see Hamas continuing to invest all of its resources not just in preparing for war with Israel, but also in educating the children of Gaza to want to destroy Israel," a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.
"The day Hamas stops digging tunnels and diverts its resources to civilian infrastructure and stop educating children to hate Israelis, that would be real change," the statement said.
Earlier, David Keyes, a spokesman for Netanyahu, said "Hamas is attempting to fool the world but it will not succeed... They dig terror tunnels and have launched thousands upon thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians," he said. "This is the real Hamas."
New charter
Ahead of the charter's publication Hamas sources had in recent weeks reported its main provisions. These provisions, they say, summarize positions enunciated throughout the years by senior Hamas officials, including the group’s founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
In contrast to the organization’s original 1988 charter, it was expected to call for a battle against Israel rather than a war of extermination against all Jews.
The document, which contains 11 chapters with 41 articles, was also expected to effectively declare Hamas’ independence from its parent movement, the Muslim Brotherhood. It does not mention any affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood and asserts that Hamas, as a Palestinian liberation movement, will not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.
Ismail Haniyeh, the Gaza-based deputy head of Hamas’ political bureau, said at an event in the Strip on Sunday that “the new document will undermine neither our principles nor our strategy. Jerusalem, the right of return, Palestinian unity and the resistance forces are fundamental principles. The changes relate to regional developments, and suit the era.”
Hamas sources said the organization decided to officially unveil the document now because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and his planned White House meeting later this week with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Thirty years after it was founded, Hamas is replacing its anti-Semitic and violent charter with a comprehensively revised document modifying several of its extreme and rejectionist positions.
While several of these strategic changes are not completely new - they have at times been talked about by Hamas leaders, but later retracted or contradicted - expressly including them in its charter constitutes something quite unprecedented.
No matter what immediate effect these changes will have on Hamas's behaviour, from a broader strategic perspective, this is a big deal.
The main reason for this is because the internal process required within Hamas to get all its different parts to unite and ratify these changes is simply enormous.
The resolve and energy necessary to carry through this type of internal process is in itself proof of the importance attached to this change within Hamas.
In addition to the difficult nature of the process in itself, the actual content of these changes also underlines the magnitude of all this. The new charter will include redresses of several of the group's most controversial standpoints, including:
A Palestinian state - Hamas will now agree on a Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders. While not explicitly saying what will be on the other side of these borders, this acknowledges the existence of a foreign entity on the other side. Hamas will also say that it backs any peace agreement that can be reached between Israel and the Palestinian leadership, if it can be approved in a popular referendum.
Armed struggle - As opposed to its former calls for the indiscriminate use of violence, Hamas will now state that, while it still considers the use of force to be its legitimate right, its focus will instead be on non-violent and popular resistance activities.
Non-Muslims - Hamas's new charter will relate to other religions, Judaism and Christianity in particular, in more conciliatory language. As opposed to the explicitly anti-Semitic references in the former document, Hamas will now say that religious minorities constitute an integral component of Palestinian society. Regarding Jews, the document will specify that Hamas's struggle concerns only those individuals who operate in and have settled beyond pre-1967 lines.
Relations with other Islamic organisations - Hamas will state that it does not have any organisational ties to other Islamic organisations. Due to its former close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, this statement marks a new chapter in the history of Hamas. Having recently been accused of conspiring with the Brotherhood against the Egyptian regime, as well as cooperating with global Salafi-Jihadi groups in Sinai, this is an attempt on the part of Hamas to deal with this. By doing so, however, Hamas will be regarded as a traitor by other extreme Islamist groups and risk a new wave of defections from its military ranks.
"Swatting the Hornet's Nest"
It is essential that any interested observer understand what "Swatting the Hornet's Nest" means and how Israeli Prime Ministers have traditionally used this same old technique of "Swatting the Hornet's Nest" to initiate Israeli war on Palestinians by instigating Hamas into attacking Israel.
September 17, 2023 - Al Jazeera
Israeli forces attack Palestinian worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque
Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque on last day of Rosh Hashanah under the protection of occupation forces, the latter assaulting Palestinian worshippers.
Israeli forces have attacked Palestinian worshippers at Bab as-Silsila, one of the main entrances to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local sources.
Israeli forces imposed tight security measures on Sunday, ejecting worshippers from Al-Aqsa Mosque and intensifying their presence around it, denying access to any Palestinian below the age of 50,
to clear the way for Israeli settlers on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Swatting the Al Aqsa Mosque
Whenever an Israeli Prime Minister wants to start a war on Hamas the PM simply directs the IDF, Israeli police and wild settlers to storm the Al Aqsa mosque and beat, hogtie, and arrest worshippers - as Netanyahu and his crew did on Sept. 17, 2023 just days before the October 7 attack.
Again, the October 7 attacks did not occur in a vacuum, but as a direct result of Netanyahu's mosque raids and Netanyahu ignoring Hamas warning Netanyahu FOR TWO YEARS TO STOP THE MOSQUE RAIDS OR ELSE! They even sent Netanyahu a video depicting what Hamas would to Israel if Netanyahu didn't stop his mosque raids, beatings and arrests.
Israeli police forcibly remove Muslims from their Al Aqsa mosque to allow Zionist settlers to haul a goat inside, cut the goat's throat and make a blood sacrifice inside the mosque to taunt Palestinians and Hamas.
It is essential for the observer to realize that YEARS WORTH of Netanyahu's mosque raids and the IDF kidnapping Palestinian men, women and children and holding them hostage in Israeli jails and prisons WAS THE DRIVING FORCE behind Hamas October 7 attack.
Says who? Says Hamas before and after the October 7 attack.
Video of Israeli police beating worshippers inside the Al Aqsa mosque during Ramadan, just three weeks before October 7, 2023.
Israeli police beat them, hogtied them, arrested them, removed them, beat them again after being locked in their jail cells.
In a perfect world Palestinians would go back in time and DENY Jewish Soviet Union and European dissident applications for refugee status in Palestine and Palestinian passports;
which would have precluded Soviet union refugee and founder of Israel, Ben-Gurion from forming armed Zionist terror gangs and launching NAKBA 1947 - a secret attack on thousands of Palestinian families in their homes to drive nearly a million Palestinians from their land in order to establish the State of Israel on Palestinian land.
But we don't live in a perfect world - we live in 2025 where we have GOOD NEWS and BAD NEWS:
The Good News is that in 2017 Hamas changed their original charter from "driving Jews into the sea" to a non-violent policy of peaceful co-existence contingent upon Palestinian statehood based on 1967 pre-invasion borders - the borders in place the day before June 4, 1967 when Israeli forces invaded Palestine, Syria and began the Occupation.
The Bad News is that Israel and the U.S. doesn't give a shit, precisely because of Israel and their dedication to achieving "Greater Israel."
The bad news is that even though Hamas is seeking permanent peace with the Israelis based on Palestinian statehood on the 1967 pre-invasion borders, a majority of Israelis OPPOSE statehood for the Palestinians and OPPOSE ending the Occupation, OPPOSE sending food and aid trucks into Gaza and SUPPORT Israeli annexation of every inch of Palestinian land.
The really bad news is the Trump administration will most likely look the other way as Netanyahu continues his "War On Hamas," continuing to kill Palestinian men, women, children and babies with TRUMP BOMBS.
What is not known at this time is HOW Trump will respond once the ceasefire ends in a few weeks and Netanyahu resumes mass murdering Palestinians with American bombs.
How will Trump respond when the same accusations and name-calling Biden faced for arming Israel's War On Palestinians will now be directed at Donald Trump?
Trump’s UN ambassador pick says Israel has ‘biblical right’ to West Bank
At her confirmation hearing, Elise Stefanik pledged to continue the US’s defence of Israel and advance Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda.
President Donald Trump’s pick to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations has become the latest administration nominee to express the belief that Israel has “biblical” dominion over the occupied West Bank.
Elise Stefanik’s comment on Tuesday came during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where she also pledged to further Trump’s “America First” mission.
“If confirmed, I stand ready to implement President Trump’s mandate from the American people to deliver America First, peace-through-strength national security leadership on the world stage,” she said during her opening statements.
If confirmed as ambassador, Stefanik explained she would audit US funding for the UN and its constellation of agencies. She would also seek to counter China’s influence at the international organisation and bolster Washington’s staunch support for Israel.
But it was her views on the West Bank that signalled the starkest contrast between the Trump administration and that of his predecessor, President Joe Biden.
Stefanik was definitive when asked if she shared the view of far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and former National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir that Israel has a “biblical right to the entire West Bank”.
“Yes,” she replied during the exchange with Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen.
When pushed if she supported self-determination for Palestinians, Stefanik sidestepped the question.
“I believe the Palestinian people deserve so much better than the failures that they’ve had from terrorist leaders,” she said. “Of course, they deserve human rights.”
A Wider Shift
Over the last four years, the Biden administration provided resolute support for Israel at the UN. It repeatedly vetoed UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire to stop Israel’s war in Gaza.
However, the administration had been willing to stand up to its “ironclad” ally on the issue of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Such settlements are considered illegal under international law.
Stefanik’s comments were the latest indication that the incoming Trump administration would take a very different tack.
Trump’s first term saw a surge in settlements, with his administration removing a four-decade-long US policy that recognised the expansion into the West Bank as illegal.
Upon taking office on Monday, Trump cancelled Biden-era sanctions on far-right Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians.
Trump’s pick to be the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has also supported Israeli settlements in the West Bank, citing the Bible as justification. In a 2017 interview with CNN, for instance, Huckabee argued that the Palestinian territory did not exist at all.
“There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria,” he said, using a biblical name.
And in 2008, when he was campaigning for the presidency, Huckabee asserted that the Palestinian identity itself was a fiction.
“I need to be careful about saying this, because people will really get upset. There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian,” Huckabee, who has not yet faced a confirmation hearing, said at the time.
‘Standing With Israel’
Stefanik has long been one of Trump’s most ardent defenders in the US House of Representatives.
In December 2023, however, she rose to a new level of prominence with her viral questioning of three university leaders from Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, pressing them over alleged “anti-Semitism” on campus. Two of the three presidents resigned in the aftermath.
Critics have said her accusations helped spur other university leaders to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests on campus, out of fear of public backlash.
In her opening address at Tuesday’s confirmation hearing, Stefanik hailed herself as “the leader in combating anti-Semitism in higher education”, citing her 2023 interaction with the university presidents.
“My oversight work led to the most-viewed testimony in the history of Congress,” she said. “This hearing with university presidents was heard around the world and viewed billions of times.”
Responding to questions from bipartisan lawmakers, Stefanik pledged to continue — and extend — the US legacy of support for Israel at the UN. The US is one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council and therefore wields veto power.
She repeated the US position that Israel is unfairly targeted by the UN, decrying what she called “anti-Semitic rot” within the organisation.
The US currently pays about one-fifth of the UN’s regular budget, a regular point of ire for Trump.
On Tuesday, Stefanik promised “a full assessment of all the UN sub-agencies” to make sure “that every dollar [goes] to support our American interests”.
She added she would oppose any US funds going to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Legislation passed by the US Congress last year bans funding through March 2025 for the agency, which humanitarian groups say provides irreplaceable support to Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza.
In her hearing, Stefanik also defended Israel, despite criticisms from UN experts that its methods in Gaza are “consistent with genocide”.
“It is a beacon of human rights in the region,” Stefanik said of Israel.
Stefanik’s hearing came just hours after former Senator Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for secretary of state, became the first member of the incoming administration to be sworn in.
Israeli police stormed the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam’s holiest sites, for the second time on Wednesday, hours after they first raided the compound and arrested hundreds of Palestinians despite condemnations from the Arab and Muslim world.
The clashes, which took place as al-Aqsa sees worshipers offer prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and Jews celebrate Passover on Wednesday evening, sparked retaliatory rocket fire from militants in Gaza.
During the first incident on Wednesday morning, footage shared on social media showed Israeli officers striking screaming people with batons inside the darkened building.
Eyewitnesses told CNN that police had smashed doors and windows to enter the mosque and deployed stun grenades and rubber bullets once inside.
Video shared by Israeli police show forces holding riot shields up as fireworks were launched back at them, ricocheting off the walls.
GROWING CONDEMNATION
Wednesday morning’s incident drew condemnation from across the Arab and Muslim world.
Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the Israeli police actions “in the strongest terms,” and called on Israel to immediately remove its forces from the mosque.
Jordan has also called for an extraordinary meeting of the Arab League to discuss the development.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry meanwhile condemned the “storming” of the mosque by police, saying it had caused “numerous injuries among worshipers and devotees” and was “in violation of all international laws and customs.”
The US Office of Palestinian Affairs called for restraint following Wednesday morning’s raid, saying on Twitter: “Violence has no place in a holy site and during a holy season.
Alarmed by the shocking scenes in Al Aqsa Mosque and rockets launched from Gaza toward Israel.
We call for restraint and de-escalation to allow peaceful worship and to protect the sanctity of the holy sites.”
‘A major crime against worshipers’
Over the last two weeks, there have been calls by Jewish extremist groups to slaughter goats at the mosque compound as part of an ancient Passover holiday ritual that is no longer practiced by most Jews.
A greater number of Muslim worshipers stayed in the mosque after calls came to prevent those attempts.
Last week, a Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli police at the entrance of the compound.
Palestinian and Israeli sources disputed the circumstances that led to the killing of 26-year-old Muhammad Al-Osaibi.
The mosque compound, frequently a flashpoint in tensions, is home to one of Islam’s most revered sites but also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount.
In a statement Wednesday, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the actions of the Israeli police, saying: “What is happening in Jerusalem is a major crime against worshipers.”
Palestinian man shot dead in disputed circumstances near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa compound
“Israel does not want to learn from history, that al-Aqsa is for the Palestinians and for all Arabs and Muslims, and that storming it sparked a revolution against the occupation,” Shtayyeh added.
Aviv Bushinsky, a former media adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told CNN situations that impact Israel’s security could unite a divided nation, but said that isn’t likely to have been the motivation behind Israel’s storming of al-Aqsa mosque.
Bushinsky added he thought it was in Netanyahu’s interests to ease tensions
Bushinsky said that the average Israeli would not, however, support any extreme Israeli measures against Palestinians in Jerusalem as that would be “too risky.”
“I think it is in the interest of Netanyahu and even Ben Gvir to try to ease the tension in the Al Aqsa mosque,” he said. “Because when there is a rupture there, it affects the entire Arab world, and we feel it.”
Gaza rockets
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that around 12 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel after the incident in Jerusalem.
Two were fired late on Wednesday, the IDF said. Earlier in the day, 10 rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel, five of which fell in open fields and one that fell on a factory in Sderot leaving no casualties, the IDF Spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari had said in a previous statement.
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza, said in a statement that “the current Israeli occupation’s crimes at the al-Aqsa mosque are unprecedented violations that will not pass.”
Later on Wednesday, the Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck weapons manufacturing and storage sites in the Gaza Strip belonging to Hamas.
“This strike was carried out in response to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israeli territory earlier,” it said in a statement.
Historical Context Timeline
Explore seminal events leading to October 7, 2023.
1947-48: NAKBA GENOCIDE
1948: Establishment of the State of Israel
1967: Israel Attacks, Invades Syria, Palestinian territories, illegally occupying Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and Syria's Golan Heights
1967-today: Israel launches numerous military operations killing tens of thousands of Palestinians
1988: Hamas forms
2017: Hamas changes charter to peaceful co-existence based on Palestinian statehood on pre-invasion borders
2020-2023: Israeli Mosque Raids, Beatings, Arrests
2023: September 17 Israeli attack
2023: October 7 Hamas Attack
2023-2025: NAKBA GENOCIDE
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