The unprecedented nature of Hamas assault has raised concerns that Iran may have been involved, given Tehran's long-time support for Hamas and its cause.
Israel's counteroffensive against the Palestinian Hamas militant group will likely stretch for months — if not years, says Ian Bremmer, president and founder of political consultancy Eurasia Group.
"To take out the leadership of Hamas, it is not going to be a matter of days or weeks. This is months or maybe years. This is going to go on for a long, long time," he added.to detect and forestall, Bremmer said there're likely more Hamas operatives already embedded in Israel and they represent "still a very real and present danger."
"The Israelis are going to war," Bremmer told CNBC on Monday. "They will be more unified as a government ... so there will probably be a national emergency government with Netanyahu and the opposition fighting that war together." Founded in 1982 by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to export its Islamic Revolution, Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim political party and militant group based in Lebanon that exists to fight Israeli forces that invaded Lebanon., a small strip of land that sits at the intersection of the Lebanese-Syrian border and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. A Hezbollah official reportedly said these were "in solidarity" with the Palestinian people.
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