Reporting from Amman, Jordan
The Israeli army says they neutralised the area where medium-range rockets of Hezbollah were stored. It did not say whoever was there was attempting to launch them.
But this is in line with what the Israeli army and government have been saying even from before the ceasefire agreement took effect, which is that Israel would enforce the ceasefire with fire. And that it would not allow Hezbollah to roam free in southern Lebanon and wouldn’t allow the group to rearm. That is the interpretation of the agreement Israel is going with.
But what we’ve been able to see and read from the text of the agreement is that it doesn’t include Israel’s right to enforce the ceasefire.
In any case, this does stress-test the agreement, which is supposed to be implemented over 60 days, long time with a lot of room for these sorts of incidents.
Inside Israel, the right-wing coalition government is still tightly held together.
But what we’re seeing now is that residents of northern Israel, who have been supporting the war and Benjamin Netanyahu, are very angry. Many of them are not accepting the invitation to go back to their communities, and the Israeli opposition is capitalising on that anger.