It is almost impossible to remember life in Israel before Hamas launched its brutal October 7 attacks a year ago, killing more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping more than 250 others, and there is little point,

The National’s Adrienne Arsenault asks CBC foreign correspondents Margaret Evans and Chris Brown to break down the major changes in the region one year after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.

October 7 was a terrible milestone in a conflict that has been raging for nearly eight decades and seems to have no prospect of ending.