TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization has officially taken effect as of 10:00 a.m. local time (3:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) Wednesday.
Under the terms of the agreement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will slowly withdraw from territory it has occupied in southern Lebanon, and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) will move in. Hezbollah will withdraw north of the Litani River, a strategic geographic boundary that Israeli soldiers reached in the last 24 hours before the ceasefire was due to take effect.
Many Israelis are skeptical of the ceasefire, because Hezbollah has not been completely defeated. Unlike Hamas, which has been unable to fire rockets consistently at Israel since the IDF took over most of Gaza, Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets and to launch drones into northern Israel, albeit less…
