In the spring of 2024, Israel began to strike back on multiple fronts with precision and lethality against the enemy alliance that had attacked it on October 7, 2023. After a months-long break in its siege of Gaza, Israel redoubled its efforts to destroy Hamas. In the summer, assassinations of senior Iranian and Hamas leaders in Beirut and Tehran were startling in ambition and dazzling in execution. And by the middle of September, when the pagers of Hezbollah fighters and leaders exploded