Iran violated an hours-old truce with Israel on Tuesday morning, launching a ballistic missile at the Jewish state, following a series of barrages earlier in the morning.
Israel’s military detected two missile launches from Iran towards Israeli territory just before 10:30am local time, nearly three and a half hours after a ceasefire brokered by the US went into effect.
Just hours earlier, ahead of the 7:00am Israel time deadline, Iran launched five missile barrages towards Israel. One missile fired during the volleys struck an apartment building in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, destroyed a reinforced safe room and damaging a second. Four people were killed in the attack, with 20 more injured. A sixth barrage was fired minutes after the ceasefire went into effect.
Nevertheless, the Prime Minister’s Office announced afterwards that Israel had accepted the truce brokered by the Trump administration. Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed Israel would respond “forcefully” to Iran’s violation of the ceasefire, threatening “high-intensity strikes against regime targets in the heart of Tehran.
The ceasefire has allowed a tentative return to some level of normalcy, with Israel lifting wartime restrictions and Iran signaling openness to nuclear talks with the U.S. next week. The enormous success of the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities cannot be underestimated despite numerous deep state media outlets looking to creative alternative facts.
Israel is not out of the woods yet. Uncertainty persists, as Iran threatens to rebuild their nuclear program, and both sides are wary of potential violations. The one thing we are certain about is that President Donald J. Trump wants peace NOW.
However, as long as the Islamic Republic remains in control of Iran the only thing we can be sure of is uncertainty.