Hezbollah breaks deal with rocket attack on northern Israel.
“Hope springs eternal,” the saying goes, but not when dealing with terrorists. So it is with the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Within a few days of the agreed-to 60-day pause in fighting, rocket fire erupted from Lebanon, and Israel responded with an airstrike on Hezbollah ammunition and missile storage sites. Reporting from the region points out that these breaches were to be expected.
Israel has shouldered the lion’s share of the combat against Iran’s proxies like Hezbollah. The hostilities have been non-stop in Gaza and southern Lebanon since the murderous attack on the kibbutzim in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Consequently, when the United States and France brokered a deal with Lebanon for a cessation of the fighting between Israel and…
