There is no ceasefire in Lebanon

Last night, my IDF Palmar medical evacuation team were treating and extracting two soldiers from Lebanon. One of them, Captain Maoz Yisrael Recanati, 24 years old, was killed one month before his wedding. The other survived but faces a long road of surgeries ahead. And yet, as I write this, I read that the “ceasefire will be extended for another 45 days”.

Try explaining that to the family and fiancée of Maoz.

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon.

I feel as though I have stepped into an Orwellian novel. President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the mainstream media are all hawking this “ceasefire”. Yet the reality could not be more different. Nineteen-year-old men are fighting and dying in what is a very hot, very real and very unfinished war against the terrorist Hezbollah entity, an organisation hell-bent on completing the slaughter of October 7 and destroying any chance for peace between Lebanon and Israel.

It is not only IDF soldiers being targeted. Israeli civilians who remain in the sparsely inhabited north, where entire cities and kibbutzim stand ghostlike in their stillness, are also in the crosshairs. Whatever our government and the American administration are trying to sell the world, the truth is this: the north of Israel has been left to its own fate for nearly three years. We are in a war of attrition against one of the Iranian regime’s most powerful terror proxies.