Latest in Middle East tensions: Is a full-scale regional war inevitable?
A woman holds her cat in front of a destroyed building at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
The Middle East seems to be moving closer towards a regional war. Iran recently fired 180 missiles at Israel and Israel said it has began a limited ground incursions into Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia.
Israel also assasinated Hezbollah's top leader Hassan Nasrulla over the past weekend and its airstrikes have killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks,-nearly a quarter of them women and children, according to the country's health ministry.
A geopolitics and warfare expert joins the 21st to explain what all these recent escalations mean for the region.
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Nicholas Grossman
Teaching assistant professor, Political Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Senior editor, Arc Digital
Author, “Drones and Terror: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security”