“Human Rights Watch has extensively researched and reported on the atrocities committed in Israel on October 7, 2023. On July 17, 2024, we published a 236-page report based on field research from October and November 2023, and remote research continuing through June 2024. We concluded that Hamas-led Palestinian armed groups committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity during the October 7 assault on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,000 people, most of them civilians, and the taking of 251 hostages. The investigation documented widespread, coordinated attacks against civilians, including murder, torture and ill-treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, and the war crime of hostage taking.”