There have been assassinations, bombings and hijackings in five countries after the Hamas massacre. Events could spiral out of control
On the warm blue waters of the Strait of Hormuz, a few dozen Yemeni militiamen dressed in wetsuits and carrying Kalashnikovs hijack a British-owned, Japanese-operated ship. A Hamas leader is assassinated in a Beirut suburb. A drone drops an explosive on a US military base in Syria, and an American airstrike kills a militiaman in Baghdad. Hezbollah fires a mortar into farmland in northern Israel.
These might sound like disparate events but together they tell a different story.
