On 7 October 2023, around 70 Hamas militants attacked Kfar Aza, a kibbutz about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from the border with the Gaza Strip, massacring residents and abducting several hostages. Kfar Aza had more than 700 residents prior to the attack, and it took two days for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to regain full control of the area. At ...

Oct 10, 2023 · In Kfar Aza, Israeli soldiers tell the BBC they have uncovered a massacre of civilians, including children and babies.

Oct 10, 2023 · Bodies of Israeli residents and Hamas attackers lay outside burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after the Palestinian militant group launched a large-scale surprise...

Oct 12, 2023 · A 13-year-old Israeli girl and her family survived a devastating Hamas attack on their village, which saw some of the worst atrocities against civilians in the militant group's surprise assault...

Kfar Aza (Hebrew: כְּפַר ... Before the 2023 massacre, the village had more than 700 residents, as well as a school and a synagogue. [3] October 7th massacre. As part of a broad surprise ... The Israel Defense Forces retook control of the village by 11 October 2023. [8] [4] ...

Oct 13, 2023 · Twenty-two-year-old Neta Portal had not spoken to her dad in six years, following her parents' divorce. But when Hamas gunmen broke into her house in the Jewish community of Kfar Aza and shot...

Oct 11, 2023 · After finally wresting back control of the small farming community of the Kfar Aza kibbutz, Israeli security forces discovered the aftermath of what a military spokesperson said could only be...

Oct 10, 2023 · Six body bags lay next to three children's bicycles in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza Tuesday where Israeli forces said Hamas fighters massacred more than 100 civilians during the weekend's shock...

Oct 10, 2023 · Israel continues its heavy bombing of Gaza, and has cut off supplies of food, water and power to the enclave. The BBC's International Editor Jeremy Bowen has visited the village Kfar Aza - the...

Oct 10, 2023 · Four days after hundreds of Hamas gunmen breached Israel’s border fence in the most brazen attack on the country in decades, overrunning two dozen towns and communities, including this one, in a...