Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ceasefire announced by the U.S. and Iran "is not the end of the campaign," and the country will continue to pursue them.
Speaking in a press conference on Wednesday, Netanyahu said the country still has "some goals to accomplish" and will do so "either from agreement and consensus, or from renewal of the war, because we are ready to do so whenever necessary."
Elsewhere in the conference, Netanyahu rejected being surprised by the ceasefire. This after The Wall Street Journal detailed that President Donald Trump called him before the announcement just to give him a heads-up.
Netanyahu announced the country's support to the deal, but has since gotten heat at the domestic level over the possibility that the threat posed by Tehran remains.
Bloomberg reported that "alarm" emerged across the political spectrum. Opposition leader Yair Lapid publicly slammed Netanyahu after the development, saying "there has never been such a political disaster in our history."
Left-wing leader Yair Golan concurred, saying: "The nuclear program was not destroyed. The ballistic threat remains. The regime remains intact and is even emerging from this war stronger."
And right-wing leader Avidgor Lieberman said the country could have to launch another campaign "under harsher conditions and at a heavier cost" in the future if the war ends under the current conditions.
Another headline resulting from the announcement is the discrepancy between involved countries about whether the ceasefire reaches Lebanon.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said it did, but Israel and Trump claimed it didn't. "That's a separate skirmish," Trump told PBS News.
Elsewhere, Fox News cited Iranian state media saying that the passage of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been stopped over Israel's continued attacks against Hezbollah, Iran's largest proxy in the region.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that Tehran told regional mediators that officials' participation in talks with the U.S. in Pakistan is conditional on a ceasefire in Lebanon. They added that Iran will continue attacking other countries in the region as long as Israel continues taking on Hezbollah.
