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Elchanan Team
Elhanan Team, also spelled Elchanan Team or Kalmanson Team ( he, צוות קלמנזון), consisted of brothers Elhanan (also spelled Elchanan) and Menachem Kalmanson and their nephew Itiel Zohar. After the outbreak of the October 7 attacks, the three traveled from their home to confront Hamas militants during the Be'eri massacre, massacre in Kibbutz Be'eri near the Gaza Strip. Elhanan was killed on the morning of October 8. For their actions, the team was awarded a special Israel Prize for Civilian Heroism in 2024. Background On the morning of 7 October 2023, Saturday, Simchat Torah, the 22nd of Tishrei 5784, the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant organizations launched a 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, surprise attack on Israel. Under the cover of firing thousands of rockets, approximately 3,500 militants infiltrated from the Gaza Strip into dozens of Israeli communities and military facilities in the area of the Gaza Strip and its surroundings, engaging in firefig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 7 Attacks
On 7 October 2023, the paramilitary wings of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, and the DFLP launched a series of coordinated armed incursions into the Gaza envelope of neighboring Israeli territory, the first invasion of Israel since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. This incursion fell on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, right after the festival of Sukkot, a Shabbat, Sabbath day. The attacks initiated the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, almost exactly 50 years after Operation Badr (1973), Operation Badr and the greater Yom Kippur War of 6 October 1973. Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups named the attacks Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (or Deluge; ),From the United Nations: * * * while in Israel they are referred to as Black Saturday () or the Simchat Torah Massacre (), and internationally as the 7 October attack. The attacks began in the early morning with List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2023, a rocket barrage of at least 3,000 rockets launched against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
