Open this photo in gallery: Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Nov. 7, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.STRINGER/Reuters On Oct. 7, the militant Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack from Gaza on southern Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and abducting more than 240 others. Israel retaliated with a military option that has killed more than 10,500 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. What is the history of the region and the Israeli-Palestinian territorial dispute At its core, the conflict is about the competing national ambitions of Israeli Jews...