The news headlines that emerged after the October 7 attack — when Hamas and a coalition of other militant groups launched a coordinated armed incursion into Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds — described it as a “surprise” attack.

Latest Developments The strike in Tehran on July 31 that killed Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s most senior political leader, brings to four the number of Hamas’s top leaders eliminated since the October 7 atrocities in southern Israel. Prior to the killing of Haniyeh — who was in Tehran for the inauguration …

Speaking to members of his governing party on July 28, 2024, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey threatened to invade Israel. Erdogan’s inflammatory rhetoric suggests Ankara may pursue a more escalatory posture in the developing conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. At a party conference in his hometown Rize, Erdogan …