BBC reports:
Fifty years on from the Yom Kippur War, which began with a surprise attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria, Palestinian militants have launched a major assault.
This too was unexpected, on another Jewish holiday.
Tensions had recently risen in the Gaza Strip, but the conventional wisdom was that neither Hamas, the Islamist group which governs there, nor Israel wanted an escalation.
Instead, Hamas had been planning a sophisticated, coordinated operation…
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