Israel’s borders with Gaza and Lebanon | On the ninth day after Hamas overran more than 20 Israeli pastoral communities and army bases, killing more than 1300 people and taking 150 hostages back to Gaza, Israel was a country on edge.
Israelis were girding with grim determination for what they widely see as a war of no choice after the attack on October 7 – the deadliest day for Jews in Israel’s 75-year history and, officials say, since the Holocaust.