Fuad Shukr

Nearly a year of tit-for-tat strikes, over 9,000 in total, that had turned communities on both sides of the border into ghost towns.

Tensions had spiked further in late July when Israel assassinated Hezbollah's top military commander, Fuad Shukr, in a targeted strike in Beirut.

Nasrallah said the cross-border attacks would continue until there was a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel's political leadership, under mounting domestic pressure to end the evacuations in the north, had a different plan.