Five takeaways as Israel-Hamas conflict reaches 100-day mark

Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip border (Ariel Schalit/AP/PA)

Sunday January 14 marks 100 days that Israel and Hamas have been at war.

Israel declared war in response to Hamas’ unprecedented cross-border attack on October 7 in which the Islamic militant group killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 others hostage.