Signs suggest that the war’s next phase could be more brutal than the last, in which tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed, the vast majority of the population was displaced and much of Gaza was bombed to rubble.

Israel has warned that its latest onslaught in Gaza is "just the beginning" as its forces pound the enclave with deadly airstrikes and launch new ground operations. But a return to a full-scale ground war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas could prove more complicated amid waning public support,

After Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, Israelis mobilized almost without reservation for war, and sacrifice. But the overnight airstrikes that killed hundreds in Gaza finds many Israelis exhausted by a long war and suspicious of their leaders’ motivations.