The Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023: videos and records

On the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, Hamas launched a surprise assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip. Thousands of rockets were fired as gunmen broke through the border fence at dozens of points by land, and some crossed by sea and by paraglider.

Around 1,200 people were killed, the large majority of them civilians, in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. About 250 people, from babies to people in their eighties, were taken into Gaza as hostages.

The places attacked

• The Nova music festival near Re'im, where more than 360 people were killed and dozens abducted.
• Kibbutzim along the border, among them Be'eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, Nahal Oz, Nir Yitzhak and Holit, where families were killed in their homes.
• The towns of Sderot and Ofakim, and the roads in between, where people were shot in their cars and at bus stops.
• Army posts on the border, including the Nahal Oz base, where soldiers were killed and female observers abducted.

Why the footage matters

The attackers filmed their own crimes. Body cameras, phones and livestreams recorded the killings, the burning of homes and the abductions, and much of it was posted online the same day. Those recordings, together with security cameras and dashcams, make October 7 one of the most extensively documented massacres in history.

This website collects records of that footage. The main compilation brings together raw footage from across the attacked area, and individual records document specific incidents.