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What Next: Israel Targets Hamas in Iran. Now What?

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As the rumored ceasefire slips further out of headlines, the Gaza war is threatening to boil over into a multiple-front war for Israel—while internal conflicts escalate inside the country. Guest: Joshua Keating, senior correspondent covering foreign policy at Vox. His piece, "A very dangerous 24 hours in the Middle East," was published on Vox on July 31. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Public.com+Public Investing Disclosure: Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Josh, give me a word to describe the last week in the Middle East.

0:11.0

Knife Edge, I'd say.

0:17.0

Josh Keating covers foreign policy over at Fox.

0:21.0

I mean, it's, since October, there's been this sort of question looming over both the conflict

0:29.7

and the US response to it as to whether the war in Gaza would spiral into a sort of larger regional conflict and I wouldn't

0:40.5

say we're quite there yet but I would say nobody is taking any actions

0:46.3

that are making that less likely right now. I called Josh up to explain a week that has

0:52.2

gone from bad to worse between Israel and its neighbors.

0:56.0

Children were playing football here and then a rocket hit.

1:01.0

As the conflict in Gaza raged on, a rocket killed 12 children and young adults near the border with Lebanon.

1:09.0

Israel says the rocket strike happened in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.

1:13.2

Israel is blaming Hezbollah.

1:15.0

The group denied the accusation.

1:17.0

Within a day, Israel retaliated with a strike inside Beirut.

1:22.0

This is what Israeli retaliation looks like.

1:25.0

Beirut's densely populated southern Daha'hia neighborhood

1:28.0

showered in debris following a precision strike

1:32.0

by Israeli fighter jets.

1:33.6

The world is watching what happens next,

1:36.3

as fears rise that an all-out war could erupt on Israel's

1:39.7

northern border.

1:41.6

And all this was quickly followed by a strike inside Iran.

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