The Israel-Hamas Conflict: From Initial Hostage Crisis to Ongoing Skirmishes

The Israel-Hamas conflict has turned into small skirmishes from where it began on October 7th with the kidnapping of Israel and other citizens by Hamas, culminating so on till today by detonating pagers and wireless sets in the city of Beirut in Lebanon. In the aftermath large number of people and those also believed to have belonged to Hezbollah in the Israel-bordering state of Lebanon have been injured also resulting in deaths from these explosions.

Israel's PM has moved away from his goal of eliminating Hamas completely from Gaza since it all began with the IDF retaliating for the kidnapping. Neither of his goals in this operation has been in operation for almost a year of freeing the hostages held by the Hamas completely or completely eliminating the Hamas have been achieved in the year-long conflict. This clearly indicates how much a state can lower itself before a terror organization.

The war is at a stalemate at the expense of civilians' lives and the lives of multinational hostages. This highlights the poor state of affairs prevailing in Israel and with its main ally the US in coming to a decision with the US and Israel completely with totally contrary perspectives looking at this most urgent decision. So far the war continues to go out of the hands of the US.

The war if it continues can extend to a much bigger one in the course of its conflict which has started already shaking from top to bottom.

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