Natalie Kitcheleff

And what you're saying is that Israel is frustrated with the ceasefire, not just because they feel that they weren't appropriately informed by their partner, the United States, about all of the terms of the agreement, but that one of the terms is a ceasefire in Lebanon.

So just to be clear about what you're saying, Ronan, what was understood by both Israel, the U.S.

and Iran was that Lebanon was included in the ceasefire deal originally.

And Israel, because of that, is furiously trying to do diplomacy and trying to persuade Trump to go back on that, to allow them to keep attacking in Lebanon.

Yeah, the scenes from that attack were just devastating.

Was Trump aware that this attack was going to happen, Ronan?

Whoa, you're saying the U.S.

did have some knowledge that this was going to occur, but didn't understand the magnitude of it, just how far Israel was prepared to go.

Which underscores just how much this puts the entire ceasefire at risk, which is obviously against Trump's interests.

So why do that if you're Israel?

We'll be right back.

Ronan, as you've told us, Israel was dead set against Lebanon being included in this ceasefire deal in the first place, so much so that they're willing to put the whole thing at risk over it.

I want you to help deepen our understanding of why, and particularly of what Mark just said, that Hezbollah and Lebanon are absolutely central to Netanyahu's argument about Israel's security.

So just walk me through that argument.

Netanyahu is saying basically that as a result of this remarkable attack, which started with the pagers, I think we all remember that, and then proceeded with these waves of strikes taking out top Hezbollah leaders, the message was it's now safe for Israelis who lived in the north of the country, which borders Lebanon, to go home.

Wow.

You're talking about the strikes that Hezbollah carried out on Lebanon at Iran's urging during this current war that exposed the fact that Hezbollah had not, in fact, been decimated.

OK, I want to talk about that issue of open fronts.

Is there an end point to this now ongoing war with Hezbollah?

I understand that Netanyahu is perhaps trying to save face at home with the public that realized that maybe they were misled and finish the job against this militant group.