The surprise attack on Israel was an extensive Palestinian terrorist attack by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad from the Gaza Strip on Israel, especially in the Gaza Envelope, which began on the morning of Saturday, the eighth of the Tashfad assembly, October 7, 2023. The attack included ground infiltration (on foot, motorcycles and pickup trucks manufactured by the Japanese Toyota with a machine gun attached to them), air and sea into Israeli territory, attacks on IDF bases and outposts and firefights with the security forces simultaneously with infiltration into settlements.

During it, massacres and murders of Israeli civilians were carried out – which also included torture, abuse and rape – including a massacre at a nature party near Kibbutz Ra'im, which was the largest terrorist attack in the history of the State of Israel, as well as the kidnapping of approximately 240 civilians and soldiers. The attack was constantly accompanied by massive and continuous firing of thousands of rockets on large areas of Israel, especially the south and center.