First came the shock, then the horror and now the escalation.Israel's government had been putting the squeeze on the West Bank when the unprecedented attack came from Gaza, stunning the world and targeting the innocent. Seven days later, Israel dropping leaflets on the Gaza Strip, the prelude to a possible ground offensive.
In the past, Israelis have morbidly likened intervening in Gaza to "mowing the grass", operations that are a periodic necessity. This time, it is different.
After days of bargaining, Netanyahu agreed Wednesday with the opposition on a national emergency government that brings former army chief of staff Benny Gantz into a war cabinet.
Gruesome images, doctored images, gruesome doctored images. Social media's been bombarded with toxic missives since last Saturday. The E-U Commissioner in charge of digital affairs making use of new the Digital Services Act to warn the social medium formerly known as Twitter, Facebook's parent group Meta and China's TikTok.
Whenever it blows up in the Middle East, passions run high here in France - home to Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim population. Adding to the tensions, the fatal stabbing spree at a high school in the northern city of Arras, a knife attack by a former student, akin to the one that felled a social studies teacher three years ago.
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Rebecca Gnignati and Louise Guibert.
