Israel escalates conflict. Is this an effort to reconstruct effective deterrence?

Since Hamas' bloody attack on Israel, it has just been 10 months. During this time respective tens of thousands of people have died (to a large degree they are civilians), and conflict alternatively than slow moving towards an end, escalates. It is besides a immense problem that fighting is no longer limited to the Gaza Strip, but it is besides spreading to further territories and is affecting - straight and indirectly - more and more actors in global relations.