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The Catastrophe of October 7. Why Did It Happen?


The Catastrophe of October 7. Why Did It Happen? - The Nation

It launched the attack to regain Palestinian pride incurred by years of occupation, siege, and suffering, even if it meant killing hundreds of ...

What Really Happened on October 7? - The American Prospect

It's October 7, 2023, a few minutes before 7 a.m. A gang of Hamas fighters in a stolen pickup drives up upon a roadside bomb shelter crammed ...

How Oct. 7 changed everything - Axios

The Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks unleashed a year of unthinkable violence in Israel, Gaza and across the Middle East.

The Middle East in crisis: 7 October, the day that changed the world

Only at 6.29 the next morning, when thousands of rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel across the lightening sky did anyone begin to suspect ...

The October 7 Attack: An Assessment of the Intelligence Failings

Drawing some preliminary conclusions, its findings suggest that the attack was likely not the result of a single glaring failure but rather the ...

October 7: How Hamas attacked Israel, minute-by-minute - Haaretz

October 7, the day that Hamas attacked from Gaza, was the worst catastrophe in Israel's history. All of Israel's intelligence and ...

October 7: A terrible day, a tragic year - Le Monde

A tragic year in which self-defense carried out by the Israeli armed forces rapidly turned into vengeance that knows no boundaries. This through ...

Trauma of Oct 7 attack still hangs over Israel as war spreads | Reuters

While much of the world has focused on Israel's military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, and the devastation it has caused, ...

October 7, 2024 Israel marks anniversary of Hamas attacks ... - CNN

“October 7 will symbolize for generations the cost of our revival, and for generations it will demonstrate how determined we are and how strong our spirit is,” ...

A year from Oct 7, tens of thousands killed and fears of a 'forever war'

Hopes for peace have been shredded by a spiraling conflict that has brought the Middle East to the edge of all-out war.

Department Press Briefing - October 7, 2024

Hamas's attacks on October 7th launched a war that continues today with tragic consequences for the Palestinian people.

The Failed Concepts That Brought Israel to October 7

The long march of the West Bank settler movement has been a generational project that has resulted in what might best be termed state capture.

How Changes in the Israeli Military Led to the Failure of October 7

Yet on Oct. 7 this seemingly invincible system of control failed catastrophically. The details by now are familiar: On that day, 50 years after ...

One Year Later: How Has October 7 Changed the World? | BU Today

In some ways, everything changed on October 7. The 1,200 people killed on that day by Hamas, and the over 100 Israeli hostages killed since, are ...

One Year After the October 7 Attacks: The Impact on Four Fronts

Massive street demonstrations against the government were back even before the October 7 anniversary date, manifesting divisions over ...

Shock at the October 7 catastrophe gives way to horror and fury at ...

Brief empathy over the Oct. 7 catastrophe is shifting to a global effort, propelled by Israel-haters and antisemites, to deprive us of the right to ensure it ...

Crisis in Gaza: What is happening? - International Rescue Committee

On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups orchestrated a deadly attack on Israel. The horrific attack killed 1,200 people ...

One year of unimaginable suffering since the 7 October attack - OCHA

New York/Geneva, 7 October 2024 — It has been a year of unimaginable suffering, OCHA said today as it marked one year since Hamas and other ...

Violence and Disaster in the Middle East: An Analysis of October 7th

October 7th, 2023. Hamas, a terrorist group operating within the Gaza Strip, fired a cascade of around 2,200 rockets into southern Israel. As ...

What Hamas hoped would happen after Oct. 7 - The Washington Post

The group wanted its terrorist attack to spark a wider war. That should give Israel pause. 4 min.