Tens of thousands of dead and injured, a devastating humanitarian crisis and the imminent risk of the conflict spreading further across the Middle East. It is the balance that leaves half a year of war and horror in the Gaza Stripwhen six months of the Hamas attacks of October 7, to which Israel responded with an offensive that has already taken its toll more than 33,100 fatalities in the Palestinian enclave.

According to the latest reports from the Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamist movement, these months of bloody and constant bombing of Israel They also left nearly 76,000 injured and many missing. Relentless destruction that is reducing Gaza to rubble and sowing hunger among its population.

A conflict that, far from showing signs of coming to an end, has reactivated other fronts in the region, which has become a real hornet’s nest: the constant exchanges of missiles between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon or the attacks of the Yemen Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, the threat of an Iranian attacka scenario that both Tel Aviv and the United States practically take for granted, in retaliation after the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus Syria.

Precisely the relationship with Washington, Israel’s great ally, has been strained in recent months, to the point that this very week Israel has agreed to open two routes for the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza after Joe Biden put pressure on the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahuto take “concrete” actions to minimize harm to civilians and ensure the safety of humanitarian workers, following the Israeli attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen workers Last monday.

Meanwhile, and while the fear of this possible attack from Tehran is already permeating the Israeli population, the internal tension is increasing in the Jewish State, where in the last few hours some 100,000 people have protested in Tel Aviv against the Netanyahu government, demanding early elections and an agreement for the return of the hostages who remain in the hands of the Palestinian militias six months later.