What is at stake in this new conflict that terrifies the world?
Hamas attack unleashed an extreme conflict whose consequences can leave deep scars.
Time
“Today, the Middle East region is in the calmest state in the last two decades,” said Jake Sullivan, the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, optimistically on September 27 at an event organized by The magazine. Atlantic. But then he darkened his expression by explaining that only two issues could break that stillness: the Iranian nuclear program and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
A little more than a week later, and as if it had been a premonition, Sullivan and the world in general found that the second of those fears had come true in the most unexpected and brutal way.
An incursion by land, sea and air by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, accompanied by the launching of thousands of rockets, and the Israeli response, have caused the death of at least 3,500 people (more than 1,300 Israelis and other nationalities, including Colombians, and 2,200 Palestinians), according to figures from the health systems of both sides. The bloodiest Sabbath (Saturday, Jewish holy day) in the history of Israel.
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