Today the Israelis commemorate the second anniversary of the attack on 7 October at the Nova Festival, in the Negev desert, by Palestinian militiamen, where 1,250 people were killed and about 250 were kidnapped. The families of the victims will go to the place where the attack took place and will observe a minute of silence, according to the AFP reports. While the negotiators of Israel and Hamas meet in Egypt to discuss a possible peace agreement in Gaza, the Israelis will meet in different places in the country to remember the day of the attack.
7 October 2023. The chronicle of that terrible day
Dramatic escalation in the Middle East, where Hamas said war and put Israel under check. Caught by surprise, the Jewish state tonight finds himself dealing with hundreds of deaths and an unprecedented hostage socket. At the first light of dawn, on the day that closes the Jewish holidays of Sukkot – as happened 50 years ago during the Yom Kippur -, 5,000 rockets rained from Gaza that sowed destruction and caused over 200 victims and 1,100 wounded. For hours the alarm sirens resonated in the center and south of the country, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem included, where people ran into the shelters.
The launch of Razzi was only the debut of the conflict: from dozens of points along the border, Hamas armed militiamen (between 200 and 300) penetrated in Jewish territory and in the Kibbutz close to the strip from heaven, land and sea, taking civil and military hostage and killing others, while people ran to barricate themselves in the shelters.
Videos disseminated on social media from sites close to Hamas report terrible scenes of the capture of hostages: according to the media they would be at least 50, but the number was not confirmed or by the military spokesperson is by the political authorities.
Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hamas militiamen occurred in the border Kibbutz, from Ofakim and Beeri to Nirim and others: the army in the evening made it known that fights were still underway in 22 locations. Diffused images on social networks also shown the battle on the streets of Sderot, where Hamas would have taken control of a police seat. Tension also in the West Bank, while in Gaza, with the fall of the dark, electricity has been cut.
“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. It is not just an operation, it is a war”, announced Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu adding that he has given order to the army to recall the reservists and to “respond to war with an irrigation and a width that the enemy has never known so far. They will pay a price they have never had to pay, and in the end we will win”.
The Israeli aviation – according to the media after some uncertainty – took the strip hammer with attacks that caused at least 232 deaths and almost 1,600 injured, hitting Hamas and Jihad stations. According to the military spokesman, Hamas military infrastructures were also attacked who were hosted inside two skyscrapers in the center of Gaza. Doctors without borders spoke of two affected hospitals, Indonesian Hospital and Nasser Hospital. From the strip the impregnable chief of the military wing of Hamas, Mohammad deif, defined the operation ‘flood al-Aqsa’ an answer to the “desecration of the Holy Places” and to the “detention”.
“We have warned the Zionist enemy several times – said Deif – but we have always had waste”. While the deputy chief of Hamas, Saleh Al-Arouri, claimed that his organization is engaged in a battle “for the Freedom “https://gazzettadelSud.it/articoli/mondo/2025/10/07/7-fra-due-inale-lattacco-i-Hamas-missile-blitz-via -ter- 200-Morti-and-50-Host-Bomb-SU-Gaza-Ecco-the-CONNUCA-of-the-Arrible-ACIRNATA-44A6F8C2-41DE-40B2-8B7C-E68D6B25B9D3/. ” – he specified – It is not a dead and run operation, we started a battle all over.
They are not a few to fear now that the situation also fell to the north, with a possible intervention of the Lebanese Hezbollah: some militiamen, according to the media of Israel, tried to breach the border line but were rejected with a gunshots by Israeli soldiers. However, the news was denied by Shiite militants. In Israel, his breath is drawn and we ask ourselves how it was possible to get so off guard from Hamas, fearing an Iranian direction behind the attack. There will be the time of the controversy, but in the spirit of union that distinguishes Israel in times of danger, even after 8 months of crack on the judicial reform, all the protests on Saturday evening have been canceled. The opposition to Netanyahu offered the premier the formation “of a unitary national emergency government”.
While in Gaza, after the first moment of Euphoria due to the news of the rockets and the irruption of militiamen in Jewish territory, now fear for retaliation prevails: many have already left the area closest to the border in fear of an army’s land operation. It is difficult to establish which scenario can open in the next few hours: the only certain thing seems that the conflict is not destined to run out in a short time. Netanyahu on the phone with the US president Joe Biden spoke of “a powerful and prolonged military campaign” at the end of which Israel “will have the upper hand”. Operation ‘Iron swords’, the Gerusalem government called it.