December 25, 2025 Terrorist Attacks

In a stunning act of violence that both horrified and stunned the world, Daesh executed its own version of the October 7, 2023 Terrorist Attack against Israel by Hamas, except this time Hamas was the target. Codenamed Operation Righteous Wave by the Islamic State, the attack began on December 25, 2025 with a series of mortar attacks against various villages in the region of Palestine and Tel Aviv, Israel, meant to deceive the world into believing Israel itself was the target.
Then, in a shocking role reversal, at least 30,000 Islamic State supporters across various "provinces" in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia infiltrated Gaza using trucks, pickup trucks, motorcycles, bulldozers, speedboats, powered hang-glider and even hovercrafts.
According to video footage shot using GoPro cameras, heavily armed militants dressed in black fatigues riding pickup trucks and ATVs attacked Hebron, Bani Suheila, Beitunia, Deir al-Balah, Sa'ir, Gaza City, Ramallah, Tubas, and many other villages and towns.
One of the bloodiest scenes in this attack occurred in Gaza City, with a large force of IS fighters r*ping, pillaging and kidnapping dozens of people en-masse, including a large number of high-ranking Hamas members. In total, at least fifty hostages were taken, doubling that of the hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7 attacks.
In its aftermath, the Islamic State took responsibility for the attacks, claiming that Hamas was "living in disobedience against Allah for rejecting his call to enforce Islam across the world" and "cowardly displaying favoritism in its attacks against the Jewish people."
== Background ==
ISIS is one of the most violent terrorist organizations in the Middle East, next to Hamas. Despite being accused of being the same as ISIS, Hamas and ISIS are two different groups, with one dedicated to creating a global caliphate across the entire world and the other solely dedicated to destroying Israel and the Jewish people.
In 2015, ISIS posted a video on social media, threatening to uproot Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
Nobody ever thought to take those threats seriously.
That was, until December 25, 2025.
== The attacks ==
On Christmas Day-December 25, 2025-ISIS executed a brazen attack against the Gaza Strip, targeting Hamas, though ISIS fighters had orders to bombard parts of Israel in order to deceive the world into believing Israel was the target instead of Hamas. To that end, they unleashed a barrage of mortar attacks and rocket attacks against various villages in the region of Palestine and even shelled the kibbutz of Masada, Israel, in the early morning of December 25, 2025. According to various sources, the mortar attacks occurred at 6:15 AM, local time.
Then, at 6:30 AM local time, the attack properly began; at least 30,000 Islamic State supporters and volunteers from ISIS "provinces" in Africa and Asia, alongside ISIS fighters from Europe, infiltrated Gaza using trucks, pickup trucks, motorcycles, bulldozers, speedboats, and powered paragliders. Video footage of the attacks shot by both sides emerged on social media, painting a chilling picture of what had transpired that day.
At about 7:00 AM, Daesh executed a massive land invasion of the Gaza Strip, overrunning several cities in Gaza, including Gaza City.
Gaza City was one of the bloodiest scenes in the attacks; according to video footage and social media posts by both Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza City, a considerable number of Daesh militants invaded and executed an utterly indiscriminate assault on Gaza City, slaughtering Hamas members, innocent people and law enforcement alike with rifles and machine guns. In addition to mass murder, Daesh members were witnessed r*ping, pillaging and kidnapping dozens of people en-masse, including a large number of high-ranking Hamas members. In total, at least 360 hostages were taken in Gaza City alone, with an estimated 30-40 hostages each being kidnapped from other Palestinian towns and villages in the Gaza Strip.
In total, at least four hundred hostages were taken, doubling that of the hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7 attacks against Israel.
== Aftermath ==
In the aftermath of the attacks, Daesh came forward and claimed responsibility for the attacks. Daesh condemned Hamas, accusing it of "disobeying" the tenets of the Qu'ran as interpreted by Daesh's literal reading of the Qu'ran and even went so far as to claim that Hamas' leadership were apostates because they rejected "Allah's call to bring the Earth under his dominion and establish a global caliphate."
A day after the attacks, as a show of force, Daesh executed five of the hostages taken during the July 4th attacks.
The attacks had a stronger impact on international views of December 25th overall; while the United States saw it as a festive day celebrating Christmas, Palestine saw it as a day of mourning.
== Reactions ==
=== Israel ===
Israel swiftly condemned the attacks, mostly because dozens of Israeli citizens were killed in the mortar and rocket attacks in Masada, despite Daesh's assertions that the main target was Hamas. However, once word got out that the main target was Hamas, the reactions were mixed; while many condemned the attacks, an equally large number of Israelis secretly celebrated the attacks.
=== Hamas ===
Hamas immediately responded with a declaration of war against ISIS, vowing to uproot Daesh from the Gaza Strip. Hamas' leadership specifically vowed that they would kill "a thousand ISIS members for every dead Palestinian in Gaza."
=== The West ===
The United States of America condemned the Islamic State's attacks on Gaza and vowed to exact justice for the hundreds of Israeli citizens killed by the Islamic State.
The EU, as well as many other pro-Palestine Western nations similarly condemned the attacks, with Vladimir Putin issuing a statement offering sincere condolences to the families of those killed, and vowing to assist Hamas in the rescue of any kidnapped Palestinians in any way possible.
== Legacy ==
The attacks on December 25, 2025 left a dark stain on the date itself. While many still celebrated it as a day of Christmas festivities, it also became a day of great mourning, sorrow and anger against ISIS for what it had done. Many Christians in Palestine expressed their outrage against ISIS, maintaining that the attacks on December 25, 205 permanently ruined Christmas for everyone in the region of Palestine.
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