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"Shortly after the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, which resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 Israelis and occurred six months ago this week, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant addressed Israeli troops, stating, 'What was in Gaza, will be no more.'
Israel has indeed acted on this commitment — and then some.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 31,000 individuals have lost their lives in the region, representing about 1.4 percent of the population. Gaza is now grappling with severe hunger, a situation exacerbated by the scaling back of activities by several aid organizations following an Israeli airstrike that claimed the lives of seven aid workers.
The Gaza Strip has been devastated, with roughly 35 percent of its buildings destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Additionally, around 85 percent of Gaza's population has been displaced.
Despite these developments, the course of the conflict has defied expectations in many ways.
In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks, Israel mobilized approximately 360,000 reservists, marking the largest military mobilization in the country's history.
However, the actual number of troops deployed into Gaza has not been disclosed, with estimates indicating around 30,000 troops as of the end of last year, many of whom have since been withdrawn.
When Israel initiated its ground operations in late October, Israeli commanders anticipated a three-month duration before transitioning to a phase focused on eliminating remaining pockets of resistance and establishing a new governance structure for Gaza.
Presently, that timeline appears overly optimistic at best.
In late January, US intelligence agencies estimated that only 20 to 30 percent of Hamas's fighters had been eliminated, and that the group still possessed enough munitions for several months of strikes. Six months later, there seems to be no end in sight, and the Israeli government's post-war plans remain uncertain.
Beyond Gaza, concerns were widespread following the October 7 attacks that the conflict would escalate into a regional war. Preventing such an escalation was a primary — if not the primary — goal of the US in the early stages of the conflict.
This effort involved the deployment of assets, including aircraft carrier groups, to the region, as well as warnings issued to Iran and its proxy groups against joining the conflict.
Six months later, the regional landscape appears mixed.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah continues to engage in exchanges of fire with the Israeli military along the border between the two countries.
However, despite occasional threats, neither side seems inclined to escalate the conflict into full-scale war.
In the weeks following the conflict's onset, Iran-backed militant groups launched over 170 attacks on US troops in the Middle East, culminating in an attack that killed three US troops in Jordan on January 28.
However, since the aggressive American response to that attack, such incidents have largely ceased.
It remains to be seen whether this "pause" could be interrupted following a surprise Israeli strike that killed a senior Iranian military commander in Damascus, Syria, earlier this week.
Apart from sporadic attacks, and despite Hamas's aspirations, there have been few indications of a broader uprising among Palestinians in the West Bank or inter-communal tensions within Israel itself. The primary threat to political stability in Israel today does not stem from the West Bank but rather from protests by Israelis against Netanyahu's leadership and an ongoing political controversy surrounding the role of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the country's military.
A notable regional development has been the emergence of Yemen's Houthis, who have garnered attention through an ongoing campaign to disrupt global shipping in the Red Sea, despite efforts by the US military and its allies to counter them.
Internationally, global patience with Israel is wearing thin. While sympathy for Israel was not universal in the days following the Hamas attacks, it has since waned significantly from the moments when the Brandenburg Gate, 10 Downing Street, and the Sydney Opera House were illuminated in the colors of the Israeli flag.
Regarding Israel's most significant global ally, there are also indications of a shift, albeit more gradual.
A strained relationship
At the conflict's outset, President Joe Biden made a notable wartime visit to Israel, while elements of the administration pursued a strategy of publicly expressing solidarity while privately shaping Israel's response.
However, this solidarity appears to be waning. Officials, including the president himself, have voiced frustration over the high number of civilian casualties resulting from Israel's airstrikes and the disruptions to aid efforts in Gaza.
The administration has taken steps that would have been unlikely at the conflict's start, such as imposing sanctions on some Israeli settlers and allowing a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire to pass, after vetoing several earlier resolutions.
Nevertheless, despite internal discontent and expressions of frustration, the Biden administration has resisted calls to take more drastic measures to distance itself from Israel's war efforts, such as conditioning military aid on Israel's compliance with more stringent targeting standards.
However, this stance could be evolving. Recently, White House spokesperson John Kirby stated that there would be changes to US policy on Gaza if concrete steps were not taken by Israel to protect civilians and aid workers and to allow more aid to enter the region in the coming "hours and days." The specific actions by Israel that would satisfy this demand, as well as the changes the US might consider if these actions are not taken, remain unclear.
Elsewhere in the US, broader shifts are occurring. A majority of Americans now oppose Israel's military actions, with support dropping from 50 percent to 36 percent between November and March.
This decline is most pronounced among Democrats, but even Donald Trump, who rarely missed an opportunity to highlight his pro-Israel stance and support Netanyahu during his presidency, now believes it is time for the conflict to end.
Regardless of what the next six months hold, there appears to have been a permanent and enduring shift in the US-Israel relationship."