
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Published 12:40 AM EST, Fri January 5, 2024

A picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment on January 4, 2024, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.Jack Guez/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN —
Anxiety mounts every day that a full-scale Middle East war could erupt from the flames of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
“We feel and we’re afraid of it,” Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week. “We don’t want any escalation in the war. … We don’t like a regional war because it’s dangerous to everybody. Dangerous to Lebanon, dangerous to Israel and to the countries surrounding Israel,” he said, adding, “A regional war is bad for everybody.”
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