Projectiles are seen in the sky after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel on October 1, 2024. Reuters
A year after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel, the Middle East is on the cusp of all-out war. Since Israel launched its military response in Gaza, the Biden administration has tried both to broker a ceasefire there and to manage the risk of regional escalation. But the lack of a Gaza deal has fuelled hostilities elsewhere, and today the regional containment effort is at grave risk.
Emboldened by operational wins over Tehran and the groups in the Iran-backed 'axis of resistance', Israel sent troops into Lebanon, and it is now contemplating how to answer the Iranian ballistic missile attack on October 1.
