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Yakhini massacre
Native name	הטבח ביכיני
Location	Yakhini, Israel
Coordinates	31°29′00″N 34°36′00″E / 31.48333°N 34.60000°E / 31.48333; 34.60000
Date	October 7, 2023 (2023-10-07) 7:40 am – Unknown
Attack type	Mass shooting
Deaths	7 civilians, 1 Israeli border guard
Injured	2
Perpetrator	Hamas
Motive	Antisemitism, Islamic extremism

The Yakhini massacre (Template:Lang-he) was a massacre carried out by Hamas on the morning of October 7, 2023, in Moshav Yakhini near the northern Gaza Strip, as part of a surprise attack on Israel. Several residents of the moshav were murdered in the massacre.

Background

On the morning of Simchat Torah, October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel. Under the cover of thousands of rockets fired into Israel, hundreds of militants infiltrated multiple Israeli communities and military facilities. The militants engaged in gun battles with security forces and advanced into the communities, where they shot and killed civilians and abducted at least 200 people into the Gaza Strip, including women, the elderly and babies.

Massacre

At around 7:40 a.m. on October 7, 2023, a squad of Hamas militants raided the moshav through a side gate at the entrance, because the main gate was locked due to a community decision by the traditional community to close the gates on Saturday.

The militants murdered four people, and later murdered three other men, one of them in his home and one of them while walking his dog. In addition, a Border Police officer was killed in an exchange of fire during an assault on one of the buildings.

The moshav leader was in Thailand at the time, and conducted the containment battle against them through a local Chabad house, until he got a flight to Israel. A video filmed from a security camera at the moshav gate shows the terrorists, armed with assault rifles, unloading from a pickup truck and raiding the moshav. A short time later, one of them is seen shooting at two young women who were taking cover behind a vehicle at the entrance gate to the moshav.

One of the murdered was Yehonatan Hajabi, whose father Nir Hajabi, a battalion commander, came to command his reserve battalion even before his funeral, saying: "I will find the time to mourn my son – now we have to fight."

References

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2. "Surprise Infiltration, Massive Barrages Shock Israel; Over 250 Israelis Killed, 1,590 Wounded; Civilians and Soldiers Held Hostage in Gaza". Haaretz. 2023-10-07. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
3. "Hamas leaves trail of terror in Israel". The New York Times. 2023-10-10. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
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5. ""אני אהיה ראשונה, תחפה עליי ואני אחפה עליך": לוחמת מג"ב רווית אסייג נפלה בקרב במושב יכיני | ישראל היום". israelhayom.co.il. 2023-10-12. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
6. זיתון, יואב (2023-10-11). "מעטים מול רבים: הצל"שניק שלקח פיקוד על הפלגה, והקצין שהציל תצפיתניות". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
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• Massacres during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
• Cross-border operations
• Hamas attacks
• Terrorist attacks attributed to Palestinian militant groups
• 21st-century mass murder in Israel
• 2023 mass shootings in Asia
• Mass shootings in Israel
• October 2023 events in Israel
• Mass kidnappings of the 2020s
• Massacres of Jews
• Palestinian war crimes