Wednesday, October 11, 9:30 AM EDT

On Oct. 7, 2023, Palestinian militants launched a surprise attack of unprecedented scale and scope on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip. The military incursion by land, sea, and air and associated barrage of missiles and rockets resulted in hundreds of deaths, prompting Israeli retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza that killed hundreds more and setting off a potential escalatory spiral.

How did Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad pull off this attack? What happened to Israeli defenses and response? Where does the war go from here?

To answer these questions and more broadly address the military dimension of this conflict, the Middle East Institute has assembled three highly-experienced defense experts.

Speakers: Mick Mulroy, Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Yemen Steering Initiative, MEI / Kenneth M. Pollack, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute / Bilal Y. Saab, Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Defense and Security Program, MEI, Missy Ryan, Moderator, Reporter, The Washington Post

For speaker bios and to register: War in Israel and Gaza: The Military Dimension | Middle East Institute (mei.edu)