On 7 October 2023, the Islamist Palestinian nationalist militant group Hamas initiated a sudden attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. As part of the attack, 364 individuals, mostly civilians, were killed and many more wounded at … See more

Supernova Sukkot Gathering was a weekend-long outdoor trance music festival that began on 6 October 2023 and was produced by an organizer called Nova (also referred to as … See more

Photographs from the aftermath of the attack show dozens of bodies on the festival grounds, including a badly burned body bound by cable ties. ZAKA, Israel's volunteer community … See more

Hamas initially denied the occurrence of the massacre and the killing of civilians. It later claimed that forces under Hamas never targeted civilians but that the massacre may have … See more

The festival was one of the first targets of Hamas's surprise attack against Israel in the early morning hours of 7 October 2023. Israeli security services investigations have … See more

Pre-planning by Hamas
According to reports published on 17 November, the police and security authorities concluded based on interrogations and their investigations that Hamas most likely did not know about the festival beforehand … See more

In response to this massacre, as well as other massacres and attacks in what Hamas called "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood", Israel formally See more