Channel 14’s Hallel Bitton Rosen sharply criticized the pause in fighting along the Lebanon border, saying: “We’ve grown used to a reality where every day we hear about more explosive drones, another soldier killed, and life goes on as usual.”

“The Arabs in the Middle East, the radical Islamists, only understand force,” he added. “If we don’t use it, they will unfortunately continue to use force against us — and the price is heavy.”