Remembering The October 7 Massacre Two Years On
While Israel mourns the Oct. 7 victims, Hamas and Houthis launch aerial attacks.
On October 7, 2023, my morning began with a sense of confusion and disbelief. The videos surfacing on social media were horrifying to watch. Pulling myself together, I began to write while I still struggled to make sense of what evils were unfolding on Israel’s border with Gaza.
I started my initial draft with the headline: “Hamas Sneak Attack, 22 Killed.” And with every passing hour, the death toll of innocent Israelis rose exponentially. The only thing more horrific than the mass killing was the depths of Hamas’s depravity meted out to the dead and the living.
Remember October 7th! pic.twitter.com/1HCOX7T6Jt
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 7, 2025
It took days for the Israel-Gaza border to be stabilized as Israeli soldiers went from house to house, flushing out Hamas intruders. These soldiers were the first to witness Hamas’s crimes. Terrorists slaughtered entire families: children before the eyes of their parents, parents before their children. They raped, mutilated, and murdered women. They proudly recorded taking terrified women, children, and the elderly as hostages back to Gaza. They were received as heroes by the residents of Gaza. Wounded and half-naked hostages were spat at and humiliated by crowds of Hamas sympathizers as they were dragged and paraded on Hamas pickups.
As terrorists invaded Nir Oz on October 7, Yarden (35) and Shiri Bibas (32) and their two sons, Ariel (4) and Kfir (10 months), huddled in the safe room of their home. When the terrorists broke into their house, Yarden reportedly left the safe room to distract the terrorists in… pic.twitter.com/FyPjx0X45G
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) September 30, 2025
At the Nova music festival, around 400 young Israelis were raped and slaughtered. Flourishing communities, such as Be’eri, Kfar Aza, Nir Oz, and other kibbutzim, were turned into smouldering ghost towns, with their residents killed or kidnapped. Hamas terrorists even killed pets. Israel’s Ynetnews counted 60 dogs shot by Hamas on October 7.
Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023:
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) October 6, 2025
Armed Palestinians (likely Hamas) tied the hands of three hostages who were abducted from their homes. The three were murdered after this video was taken.
Hamas and its armed allies in Gaza are terrorist groups. pic.twitter.com/oqh1t45nZ6
When the dust settled, the extent of Hamas’s invasion and massacre became clear. Terrorists had breached the Israeli border fence at 60 places. Over 3,000 terrorists belonging to Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups had invaded Israel. More than 1,200 men, women, and children were murdered on that single day, and 251 were taken hostage. To this day, Hamas holds 48 hostages, of whom only 20 are believed to be alive.
The well-planned attack took place on a Jewish sabbath and one of the holiest days in the Israeli calendar, Simchat Torah.
This is a photo of the Kutz family before October 7. They were found huddled together in their home’s bomb shelter. None of them survived. We will never forget. pic.twitter.com/md70AigxzX
— Humans of Judaism (@HumansOfJudaism) October 6, 2025
In a recently released book, ‘While Israel Slept,’ Israeli authors Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot reveal that Hamas had been working to stage such an attack for nearly two decades. Exactly one year earlier, on October 7, 2022, Hamas carried out a drill for a cross-border attack right under the nose of the IDF, the authors say.
IDF soldiers who fought Hamas on October 7th:
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 3, 2025
"We understood that there were civilians there who felt helpless and needed the IDF. We knew that, no matter what, we had to get there."
Heroes of Israel.pic.twitter.com/sG8Xp5ibTL
With the twin objective of freeing the hostages and defeating Hamas, the IDF launched the operation ‘Swords of Iron.’ On October 27, 2023, the Israeli troops began the ground operation in Gaza. The military not only faced a well-dug-in enemy in Gaza, but faced a multi-pronged attack from the Iranian-led axis of terror. Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen-based Houthis, and Iraqi terror militia began firing missiles and drones at Israel.
After two years of combat operations in Gaza, Israel has lost 1,086 soldiers and security personnel, 66 of them women. Around 560 IDF soldiers have been severely wounded, official figures show. The IDF eliminated nearly the entire Hamas leadership in Gaza and severely degraded its terrorist fighting force. The key planners of October 7, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, were killed in targeted Israeli airstrikes. In July 2024, Israel took out the Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in a strike near Tehran, Iran. Last month, an IDF airstrike hit Hamas’s headquarters in Qatar, signaling that Israel’s long arm of justice is capable of reaching Hamas terrorists anywhere.
The Israeli military intelligence, in October 2024, revealed that Hezbollah had also planned an October 7-style attack in northern Israel. With the Israeli military on high alert after the Hamas massacre, Hezbollah had to shelve its “Conquer the Galilee” plan.
There were some significant unintended consequences of the tragic October 7 massacre. Hezbollah, which began cross-border rocket strikes on Israel on October 8, 2023, had a rude awakening on September 17, 2024, when pagers carried by its terrorist rank and file began to explode. Hours later, Hezbollah walkie-talkies blow up.
The brilliantly executed Mossad operation was followed by Israeli airstrikes on Beirut and southern Lebanon. Weeks later, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and most of his terror commanders were dead. In early October 2024, the IDF launched a two-month-long ground operation to flush out Hezbollah terrorists and dismantle terror tunnels and fortifications along the country’s northern border.
Ten weeks later, the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad regime fell in Syria. The IDF created a buzzer zone in terrorist-ridden southern Syria.
While Israel mourns the Oct. 7 victims, Hamas and Houthis launch aerial attacks
While Israel mourned the victims of October 7, Hamas fired a rocket at southern Israel, highlighting the terrorist threat still facing the Jewish state. “Thousands of people converged on southern Israel on Tuesday to mourn the dead as the nation marked two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack,” the Associated Press noted.
No one was reported injured following the Hamas rocket strike. “A rocket fired from Gaza on Tuesday morning struck an Israeli town that Hamas terrorists raided on Oct 7 two years ago to the day,” The Telegraph (UK) reported. “The projectile struck close to Netiv HaAsara, a small farming community on Gaza’s northern border, on Tuesday morning, the Israeli military said.”
🚨Sirens sounding in Netiv HaAsara, an Israeli community near Gaza🚨
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 7, 2025
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis terrorist group launched several drones at Israel. “Two more drones launched by the Houthis in Yemen were shot down by air defenses over Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat, the military says, after sirens sounded in the city,” The Times of Israel reported. “Half an hour earlier, another Houthi drone was shot down over Eilat, according to the IDF, bringing the total to three.”
We remember October 7. pic.twitter.com/jqTfcHhXNy
— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@USAmbIsrael) October 6, 2025
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What’s galling to me is that if western leaders and countries had resolutely and unequivocally backed Israel in its existential and defensive response to these Arab Muslim war crimes and atrocities — merely the latest of innumerable manifestations of genocidal Muslim terrorism and belligerence, in “Submission’s” bloodstained, 1,400-year history of conquests and atrocities — Hamas would have been defeated, and, a chance for a lasting peace in Gaza could have materialized, with better days ahead, for Israelis and Arabs in Gaza.
Instead, contemptible, feckless, stupid and evil Australian, Canadian and European leftist dhimmis, and, American Dhimmi-crats, continue to give economic, diplomatic and political succor, sustenance and reward to the Arab Muslim terrorists/Islamofascists of Hamas.
Israel’s battle is one hundred times more difficult, casualty-incurring and lengthy than it needs to be, because the west is indefensibly propping up these pukes. Israel is paying a steep price for the west’s collective, feckless and emasculated dhimmitude.
Qatar should have been threatened with total destruction on October 8th, 2023, for materially aiding Hamas (financially and otherwise) and for sheltering its leaders, unless it promptly gave up those leaders and repented of its aid to Muslim terrorist groups around the world. Let’s not forget that American citizens were murdered and kidnapped, in these attacks. The greasy and duplicitous Qatari regime has been playing the U.S. for a total sucker, and, it’s long past time that the regime paid a severe price for its duplicity and perfidy.
The U.S. should have also given an ultimatum to Hamas on October 8th, 2023, to either release all hostages, immediately (Americans holding dual citizenship, and Israelis) or see Gaza turned into ash under direct U.S. military action. This wasn’t going to happen under puppet-dotard Biden’s “leadership,” or, under the leadership of the cabal of caretakers/minders/handlers who controlled Biden (or, under any Dhimmi-crat president). But, it’s what should have happened.
That none of this happened shows that, almost 25 years after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. still does not understand how do deal with Muslim terrorist regimes and groups. You cannot “negotiate” with these savages. You cannot engage in diplomatic “talks” with these pukes. A “treaty” signed with these reprobates is intrinsically worthless. You can only destroy them, utterly and totally, destroy their lands, and then salt the earth from which they sprang.
Islamist’s are raised to lie. Trust??? No. Western negotiating is NOT the Islamic way.
ALWAYS REMEMBER!!
Every time I am forced to think about Arab savages in Palestine I see red.
‘better days ahead, for Israelis and Arabs in Gaza”
This is flat out wrong, the outcome is mutually exclusive. Arabs must be removed from all of Palestine.
I wish that President Trump would repeat daily the number of Americans killed, tortured, murdered by Hamas
Put their faces on out television screens at the end of the news each night
Peope forget or unaware that they did this to Americans also
I F/King hate Islam to my very soul
And yet despite the barbaric attack against Israel on Oct. 7th 2023 Netanyahu and Trump are willing to negotiate with the Hamas terrorists in a futile attempt to end the violence against Israel. Trump didn’t learn the lesson. Netanyahu didn’t learn the lesson. You cannot negotiate with terrorists. And the cycle of violence will continue despite the futile efforts to negotiate with Hamas and their Arab terrorist supporters.
The only way peace will be achieved is if one side or the other no longer exists.
EoT
The obsession with accomplishing “The Deal” has been the downfall of many otherwise pragmatic leaders. It reflects a fundamental inability to emotionally accept that true evil cannot be defeated or even mitigated by negotiation. Evil is always an opportunist, and hubris offers many opportunities.
What Israel has accomplished in the last two years after suffering one of the most atrocious attacks in and facing a literal existential threat to the states very existence, is beyond miraculous.
I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and all the people of Israel wherever they are, as the battle is far from over. But God will prevail, and Israel will be justified.
Israel is justified
But the one question everyone wants to know is
Why did it take 7 hours for the Israel army to respond?
Why does Israel have an unarmed populus?
Extreme gun control got a lot of these people killed.
what is the status of the hostage release and that sunday deadline?
have been tied up but not seen any info on it.
As usual, Hamas is dragging their feet till they get concessions
I am very disappointed in Trump, he gave them 4 days and it’s been 6 already.
Inexplicably, but fully in line with the socialist/left wing international globalist indoctrination seminars and group sessions all western politicians seem to adore, Israel disarmed their citizens. They went from teachers carrying M-1 carbines, to teachers hinding in closets with children only to be raped and slaughtered.
Would it make a difference..in fact there were several incidences where Hamas came upon armed Israelis. And it made a huge difference. in the most notable, an armed quard at a small kibbutz immediately opened the tiny armory at her station, passed out weapons and ordered everyone else to cover while her armed took positions to prevent entrance. There were three or 4 armed skirmishes…and Hamas was driven off every time. No lives lost.
The brave young guard from New York was hailed a hero, but died in a terrorist attack a couple months ago.
Yes…you better believe an armed citizenry makes a difference.
I hadn’t heard she died
Incredibly sad, she saved so many
It’s an insane law but then Israel has so many Muslims, imagine arming them
Oct 7th on a daily basis
But your right , Israel citizens, Jewish citizens must be armed
Commemorate the Oct 7 tragedy by launching fireworks over Gaza only replace the fireworks with live munitions.
To the American Left, this is a day of celebration with the American civilians killed or taken hostage two years ago being considered a bonus.
Subotai Bahadur
The Hamasholes will squeeze this out just like they squeeze out food to the starved hostage. All for their publicity, and the world will go along, thanks to the rise of antisemitism in the left. You know, the same ones that don’t utter a peep when it is revealed how horribly the hostages are being treated by the Hamasholes. If Israel treated their hostages like the Hamasholes do, there would be an outcry, particularly from the UN.
Today weasle Canada recognized Palestine as a Country
This is so absurd
Commit murder and reap the awards
1. Committ murder and barbaric acts on women , children and young and old people… throw in over 200 American citizens, just for grind cause they certainly haven’t paid the price for it…
2. How many opportunities has the people living in Garza had to form a state.. thinking Clinton and Arafat… who died with over 700 millions of dollars from western countries as he stole that should have gone to the people
The Neville Chamberlain School of Diplomatic Ineptitude alumni in action yet again, it seems!