When Hamas-led militants sprang from Gaza last year, leaving 1,200 people dead in southern Israel and 250 more held hostage in the enclave, it set off a chain of events that has moved the Middle ...

Area: 22,000 sq km. Population: 9.5m. Prime minister: Binyamin Netanyahu.

Mapped: Where Israel has fired missiles around the Middle East as IDF begin ground invasion in Lebanon. More than a thousand people have been killed in Israeli strikes across Lebanon, Syria, Yemen ...