Israel and Hezbollah are currently illustrating the absolute limits of the word "ceasefire"
So, the Middle East just signed a ceasefire, a massive US-Iran peace deal is dropping on Friday, and yet everyone is still actively blowing each other up. Classic.
Just Sunday, Israel and Hezbollah signed a ceasefire agreement. By Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu was already on TV explaining that the Israeli military would remain in Lebanon "for as long as necessary." Apparently, "cease" and "fire" have very flexible definitions over there.
Naturally, the bombs kept flying. Hezbollah has been busy launching rockets and explosive drones that wounded several Israeli soldiers, while Israeli airstrikes have been leveling vehicles and buildings in southern Lebanon, leaving several dead.
The absurd peak of this situation came from the G7 summit in France. Donald Trump chimed in sounding like a tired suburban dad. He openly criticized Netanyahu's aggressive retaliation, pointing out that you do not have to knock down entire buildings in Beirut just because two cheap drones crashed harmlessly in the desert.
It turns out signing a peace treaty is the easy part; it's the actual "not shooting each other" part that always trips people up.
Source: Al Jazeera
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