Year of destruction: how October 7th shattered the Middle East
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The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
After Hamas militants attacked Israel a year ago, few people predicted how deep and devastating the ensuing conflict in the Middle East would be. The Economist’s Middle East experts discuss whether the fissures may ever be fixed, including dispatches from Israel, Gaza and Lebanon.
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| 1:02.0 | the economist The Economist. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm your host Rosie Bloor. Welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm your host Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:14.8 | Today we're devoting the whole episode |
| 1:17.1 | to an event that has shaped the past 12 months. A year ago today, thousands of members of Hamas, a militant Palestinian group based in Gaza, burst through barriers into Israel. |
| 1:39.0 | They massacred more than 1,100 people and took a further 250 hostage. |
| 1:46.4 | Since then Israel has fought non-stop with Hamas in Gaza. |
| 1:50.3 | Nearly 2 million people there have been displaced and much of the territory has been reduced to rubble. |
| 1:56.0 | Israel has exchanged rockets with Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. |
| 2:01.0 | A week ago it sent troops across the border into Lebanon to battle Hezbollah, a |
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