What Is Hamas, the Terrorist Group Behind the Attacks in Israel?

It is designated a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Organization of American States.

Rockets are fired from Gaza toward Israel, in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 8, 2023. Mohammed Salem/Reuters

On Oct. 7, Israel—created in the aftermath of the Holocaust, where 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis—experienced the biggest single-day massacre of Jews since history’s darkest hour when Hamas launched rockets from Gaza into the Jewish state and invaded it, killing men, women, and children, raping women, and taking hostages.

Hamas terrorists dragged an elderly female Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair into Gaza.