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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-hamas-attack-israel-unfolded-2023-10-07/
Hamas Launches Surprise Attack on Israel
(Reuters) Dan Williams - A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn on Saturday during the Jewish high holiday of Simchat Torah. The attack began with a rocket barrage that served as cover for a multi-pronged infiltration of Palestinian gunmen into Israel. Most fighters crossed through breaches in security barriers separating Gaza and Israel, but at least one was filmed crossing on a powered parachute. Israel's military said at 10 a.m. that Palestinian fighters had penetrated at least three military installations around the frontier - the Erez border crossing, the Zikim base and the Gaza division headquarters at Re'im. Several captured Israeli military vehicles were paraded in Gaza. Palestinian fighters raided the Israeli border town of Sderot and other border communities. Israel's Foreign Ministry said Hamas gunmen had gone house-to-house killing civilians.