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On 7 October 2023, seven female Israeli tank crew members from the Caracal battalion fought against Gazans who they alleged were Hamas [1] continuously for 17 hours. According to the IDF, the young women were the first ever female tank crews in the West to engage in active combat. [1] According to Israel, they killed 50 militants. [1] The incident was cited by The New York Times as an ...
The attacks by Hamas on Israeli communities, in which 1,139 people were killed and 240 hostages were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, reportedly involved widespread sexual violence. [31][32] In a review of evidence mainly provided by the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli officials, NBC News stated that the evidence "suggests that dozens of Israeli women were raped or sexually abused or mutilated ...
Women in the Israel Defense Forces. Israel is one of only a few countries where military service is compulsory for all able-bodied female citizens. Under Israeli conscription laws, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may draft recruits from three communities: the Jews, the Druze, and the Circassians. As the latter two communities are less populous ...
The Israeli military said it also destroyed the homes of two militants who it said carried out an attack that killed an Israeli woman and seriously wounded an Israeli man in August.
A small number of counter-protesters wore Israeli flags around their shoulders. Israeli military has shot 3 U.N. aid convoys recently, U.N. secretary-general says
A total of 101 Israeli civilians were killed in the attack. In addition, 31 Israeli security personnel were killed, of whom 18 were IDF soldiers (with 5 commandos of the Shaldag Unit among them), 5 were members of the kibbutz security team, and 8 were police officers. Many soldiers and civilians were also wounded.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli fire during military raids killed 10 Palestinians, including four teenagers, and wounded another 10, Palestinian officials said.
Rahat incursion. On 7 October 2023, Hamas and several other Palestinian nationalist militant groups launched coordinated armed incursions from the Gaza Strip into the Gaza Envelope of southern Israel, the first invasion of Israeli territory since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The attack coincided with the Jewish religious holiday Simchat Torah.