On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal surprise attack on localities and military bases in Israel, in which over 1,300 people, including women, children, infants and elders, were killed and nearly 200 people were taken hostage, including 30 children and infants, some under a year old. After the Israeli military recaptured the area, field manuals and other documents
The Hamas group created detailed plans to target elementary schools and a youth centre in the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Sa'ad to "kill as many people as possible", hold hostages and quickly take them into the Gaza Strip, documents showed, NBC reported.