October 7 Hamas attack and Israel-Gaza war

The 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack belongs in Factrail as dated Facts documenting killings, hostage-taking, rocket fire and other acts established by evidence. The continuing military conflict, siege, displacement, destruction, humanitarian deprivation and later phases belong on the canonical Israel–Gaza war driver.

On 7 October 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched a coordinated attack into Israel. A UN Commission of Inquiry reported that civilians were intentionally targeted and that people were abducted to Gaza as hostages; it concluded that the investigated acts included war crimes and other violations. Israel then launched a large-scale military operation in Gaza. The causal graph should preserve both sets of agency and keep civilian harm visible without collapsing the entire war into the initial attack or treating the initial attack as a separate permanent war driver.