One year after the Hamas-led incursion into southern Israel on 7 October 2023, Israel’s brutal war on Gaza has proven contagious. It has dangerously expanded into other countries and territories in the Arab world, most notably Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the occupied West Bank. After Israel’s recent killing of Hezbollah’s third Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and other high-ranking officials in the Lebanese organisation, hostilities between Iran and its allies in the ‘Axis of Resistance’, on one side, and Israel and the US, on the other, are intensifying across the region. How Tel Aviv and/o…