Take a look inside Israels war room on the day Hamas invaded

In July 2024, when the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited presidential candidate Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Netanyahu was pictured presenting Trump with a baseball cap that said “Total Victory.”It was a reference not to Trump’s electoral hopes but to Israel’s war aims following the Oct.7, 2023, terrorist attack.

Israel demanded the return of all the kidnapped hostages.It also sought the elimination of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza.

And it wanted to extinguish the capability of Hamas, or of any other terrorist organization, to launch another Oct.7-style surprise attack on Israel.Nearly three years after Oct.

7, 2023, it’s easy to forget all the subsequent twists and turns.One great achievement of “In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel’s Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman, is reminding readers of all the victories Israel has achieved since the day of the attack.Even readers who have followed the war closely may find themselves cheered to recall that during a few days in December 2024, after Bashar Assad’s Iran-allied regime in Syria was toppled, “Israel destroyed the major assets of the Syrian military: Chemical weapons, air-defense batteries, combat aircraft, helicopters, drones, the naval fleet, weapons stockpiles, production facilities, and even tanks.” In only two days, “Israel carried out 480 strikes, wiping out an estimated 70 percent of Syria’s strategic capabilities.

A Syrian rebel commander told the Syria Direct news outlet that it would take decades to rebuild the Syrian army.”In Gaza, Israel killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.It killed Yahya Sinwar’s brother, Mohammed Sinwar, who took over Hamas in Gaza after his brother died.

It killed Hamas’s military chief, Mohammed Deif.It killed the Hamas political bureau chief, Ismail Haniyeh, while Haniyeh was staying in a Tehran guesthouse that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps used for visiting...