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Within Israel, the war has been presented by Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government as a necessary and long-overdue response to an existential threat. Netanyahu has visited strike sites in southern Israel, met with wounded residents, and framed the conflict in terms of Israel’s survival and the elimination of the greatest danger it has faced in a generation. He has described the campaign as a historic opportunity and has warned that Iran’s regional allies — Hezbollah, Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, the Houthi movement in Yemen — are also within range of Israeli power.

The conflict with Lebanon has intensified sharply alongside the Iran campaign. Israel launched heavy airstrikes against Hezbollah infrastructure across Lebanon beginning in early March, issued mass evacuation orders that displaced nearly one million people, and has expanded ground operations in the south. The Lebanese death toll from Israeli strikes has exceeded 1,000 people, including more than 100 children.

As of March 23, 2026, the Israeli military campaign against Iran shows no sign of concluding. Israeli forces continue to strike targets across Iran. Iran continues to retaliate. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed to hostile shipping. Global energy markets remain in turmoil. And the question of what comes next — for Iran’s shattered leadership structure, for the region’s civilians, for the fragile network of international relationships that held the Middle East together for decades — remains entirely open.

What is not open to debate is the scale of what Israel has set in motion. In launching this campaign, Israel has crossed thresholds that had never been crossed before — striking a sitting head of state, sustaining offensive operations inside a major regional power for weeks, and reshaping the strategic reality of the Middle East in ways that no one can yet fully predict.

The consequences will unfold over years, not days. And the world is watching.