A year on from Oct. 7, little hope for peace and a multifront conflict Monday marks a year since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 , kidnapping 251 people and killing up to 1,200 in an incursion that has taken the region to the brink of an all-out war. Israel’s subsequent military assault on Gaza has killed nearly 42,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry, while a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon has left around 1,800 dead and driven 1.
2 million from their homes. After a year of fighting, experts fear there is little framework for a lasting peace in Gaza, and the possibility of an uncontained conflict between Israel and Iran has inched closer. “There’s no endgame — it’s starting to feel like a forever war,” said Frank Lowenstein, special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under President Barack Obama.
The priority now is “not just about ending the war in Gaza, even temporarily, it’s also avoiding a war in Lebanon that I think we’re really concerned is going to spin out of control.” Some in Israel are also uneasy about where the situation could head. “If we are dragged into a large confrontation in the north with the Iran-Shiite axis,” said Yoram Schweitzer, the IDF’s former head of international counterterrorism, then “what we have seen in Gaza will look like children’s games.
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