Since October 2023, with the support of the US and other Western allies, Israel responded to the October 7 attack with a campaign of aerial bombardment that devastated Gaza.

The death toll is now well beyond 40,000 people, and there appears to be no end sight to the suffering. 

As the war widens and deepens across the region, questions of what will happen to the Palestinian people when the war ends are being drowned out. 

The destruction of the past year is almost unfathomable. However, what lies ahead threatens to be much, much worse.

To help us try and make sense of it, "Leave It to the Experts" spoke with Dr. James M. Dorsey, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

This is part 2 of “Leave It to the Experts”, a look at the the past year of conflict in the Middle East. The cause, the effect, and the toll of human suffering.