October 7, the day that Hamas attacked from Gaza, was the worst catastrophe in Israel’s history. All of Israel’s intelligence and operational systems collapsed; all of its political conceptions were proven false. In the space of 24 hours, Israelis lost faith that their state could protect them.
Six months later, most accounts of October 7 are incomplete, missing crucial details about the sequence of events of that day. Haaretz has curated its reporting, collected dozens of eyewitness accounts, geolocated videos and built maps to reconstruct the full picture of what happened during the slaughter in southern Israeli communities.
Warning: This article contains graphic videos which may be disturbing.
