The situation was volatile enough. But Tuesday night's blast at a hospital in Gaza City has convulsed the Middle East in even greater turmoil.While the violence between Israel and has so far been relatively localised, it threatens to set off a chain reaction, dragging in first neighbouring countries and then other, more powerful nations who will seek to defend their own geopolitical interests or exploit the chaos for their own ends.As I write, troops are continuing to mass at the border of the Gaza Strip, threatening a land invasion and a new cycle of bloodshed.
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