One year into the devastating war in Gaza, and the conflict has spread far beyond Gaza itself, including not only Iran, Lebanon and other countries in the Middle East region – but also, arguably the US, given its unwavering support – both verbally and materially – for Israel and its actions.
While much of Gaza lies in ruins with most houses, universities and hospitals destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced multiple times and an official death toll of 42,000 – there is now scarcely a whisper about even a pause in the fighting, yet alone a ceasefire.
Indeed, in the past month, this has largely been overshadowed by a rapid increase in Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) attacks into southern Lebanon as far north as Beirut and the Beqaa Valley. The aim has been to make Hezbollah halt its rocket attacks into northern Israel that have forced the evacuation of some 60,000 Israelis.
