Ronen Bergman

You, all the refugees that fled the north of Israel at the beginning of the war, you can go back.

It's safe.

Yes, and so the reality happening in Lebanon was

was that Israel was attacking Hezbollah every few days, and Hezbollah did not react.

And I think that gave, first of all, it gave the Israeli people the sense that Prime Minister Netanyahu was right.

There's no Hezbollah.

They're not reacting.

They're not retaliating.

And the second, it gave the military officials a sense that they can do to Hezbollah whatever they want.

Hezbollah will stay deterred.

Well,

Turned out not to be that correct because once Hezbollah recovered and felt that this is now, this is serious, this is about their own existence as an armed force in Lebanon, they started fighting.

Yes.

The whole of the northern hemisphere of Israel started to be bombed again with rockets and missiles.

And you know, even this house, the house I'm speaking to you from, this is Tel Aviv, this is central Israel.

We were bombed by Hezbollah.

So the non-existent decimated Hezbollah was still able to send missiles from Lebanon to central Israel just a few days ago.

So suddenly the Israeli public realized that

In Gaza, the war is not over.

Hamas is controlling half of the Gaza Strip.