Israel-Hamas War and Current World Situation
The radical Islamic organization has ruled Gaza since 2006, marking the worst intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a number of decades. More than 1,300 Israelis were killed, 3,300 were injured, and hundreds of captives were taken prisoner as Hamas fighters crossed the Gaza Strip to invade southern Israeli cities and villages and launch rockets into Israel. Israel was unprepared for the onslaught, but it promptly launched a lethal counteroffensive. The Israeli cabinet formally declared war on Hamas the day after the attack on October 7. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were then instructed by the defense minister to impose a “complete siege” on Gaza.
Since then, there have been regular rocket attacks between the two sides, and on October 28, Israel gave the order for over a million Palestinian people living in northern Gaza to evacuate in preparation for a land invasion. Hamas is under pressure as Israeli soldiers have surrounded Gaza City, shutting it off from the southern part of Gaza. There are still hundreds of thousands of residents in the city. Ten thousand Palestinians have died in the conflict, including almost four thousand children, according to Gaza health officials. Due to Israel’s rejection of humanitarian pauses and restrictions on the quantity of aid that may enter, the region is also severely short on gasoline, water, and supplies.
At present so many questions arise in current world conditions like…
- What was the strategic value of Hamas’s attack?
- How could the status quo ante change in Gaza?
- How will the hostage situation affect what happens next?
- How are external actors like Hezbollah thinking about what’s happening?
- How will the war affect regional alignments?
CSSP proposed an online talk-cum-discussion to answer all these.
Resource Person
- Prof Chandra Mohan Upadhyay, Principal, Kali Charan PG College, Lucknow, U.P.
Auspicious Presence
- Dr A K Verma, Director, CSSP, Kanpur
Moderator
- Prof Sanjay Kumar, Coordinator, CSSP, Kanpur
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Contact
- Dr Dharmendra Pratap Sriavastava, Assistant Director (Acad), CSSP, Kanpur, 9140552409
- Kamal Kumar Srivastava, Research Assistant, CSSP, Kanpur, 97219 90988