Within 10 minutes and across several areas simultaneously, the IDF carried out a major blow against about 100 command centers and military infrastructure sites belonging to Hezbollah. It was the IDF's largest strike in Lebanon since the start of the current campaign.
After months of boasts that the threat had been pushed back for years, Israel is ending 40 days of fighting without a decisive outcome. The very ceasefire will force it to pay a heavy price, one that could come due if the war resumes. At the same time, the question of Lebanon remains unanswered, and not a single Israeli official sees fit to provide the public with answers.
The Lebanese terrorist organization is being forced to choose between facing Israel alone and giving up its objectives. Distrust of the US administration is deepening in the Gulf. Still, two countries emerged as winners.
Despite Iran’s declarations, most of the war’s objectives were achieved. Iran emerges from the war weakened economically and militarily, but its success will be measured only by the outcome of the negotiations. In Israel, officials are clinging to promises they received from the Trump administration, but fear that the motivation to return to war if Iran refuses will be limited.
The announcement of a ceasefire between Iran and the US has rendered the frameworks the Israeli education system had prepared for wartime schooling moot. The assessment is that classes will fully resume at the start of next week, though schools could reopen as early as tomorrow.
