Israel wants war with Lebanon

The war that neither side wanted began this week in earnest. After last week’s exploding pagers and walkie-talkies reportedly injured 1,500 members of Hezbollah’s military forces, the Israeli Air Force began a broad campaign of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, assassinating several senior leaders of the group while targeting long-range missiles hidden in warehouses and the roofs of private residences. Hezbollah in turn fired long-range missiles for the first time, including a half-tonne monster that targeted the Tel Aviv region. 

However, just days into the higher-intensity conflict, suddenly the media this morning was full of reports of an imminent ceasefire. What happened?

This most recent round of conflict began on 8 October last year. While Israel was still reeling from the surprise attacks from Gaza and massacres of the day before, and still fighting to reclaim kibbutzim held by Hamas terrorists, Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israeli towns right by the border, eventually forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 Israelis.