In assassinating Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, Israel has taken the regional brinkmanship to an unanticipated new level
Tel Aviv, Hodeidah, Majdal Shams, Baghdad, Beirut and now Tehran. Although the parties involved are loath to acknowledge that the war in Gaza is metastasising into a regional conflict, the last two weeks of airstrikes and targeted killings across the Middle East suggest the risk is becoming more acute.
In southern Beirut on Wednesday, rubble lay piled up at the foot of a collapsed building that had been struck by three Israeli missiles just hours before. The sound of heavy machinery filled the air, aiding the civil defence members searching for people trapped under debris as Hezbollah fighters clothed in black watched from impromptu roadblocks.
