MagyarIs the counterattack effective?
Israel is mobilizing more and more soldiers!
Israel took just hours to prepare its retaliation against Hamas and a few weeks for a ground offensive, after the 7 October attack which killed more than 1,400 of its citizens and injured over 3,300.
Both Israeli intelligence and the military seemed to be caught by surprise by the worst assault on Jews since the Holocaust. This created further anger and division within the people of Israel towards the government.
Ugo Tramballi works for the Italian Institute of International Political Studies (ISPI). “Israel could not fail to respond to what happened on October 7," he says. "It is a cul de sac, though, in the sense that is precisely what Hamas wanted: the ground strategy.”
Both Israeli intelligence and the military seemed to be caught by surprise by the worst assault on Jews since the Holocaust. This created further anger and division within the people of Israel towards the government.
Ugo Tramballi works for the Italian Institute of International Political Studies (ISPI). “Israel could not fail to respond to what happened on October 7," he says. "It is a cul de sac, though, in the sense that is precisely what Hamas wanted: the ground strategy.”
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