Former Israeli official: Israel wanted war to end

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00:00Are there people in Israel who feel that this ceasefire was premature and that perhaps there was still some fighting to be done?

00:08Well, that's always the case. And sure, there were some people who felt that way.

00:13But I don't think that either the government or the IDF felt that way.

00:17They wanted to bring the war to an end, both to, let's say, locking the achievements that had been made.

00:25In war, you never know what might happen, what might go wrong.

00:30So there was that dimension to it.

00:33There was the fact that the home front in Israel was taking a hit and the government wanted to end that as quickly as possible.

00:42And then, of course, there was American pressure to do so.

00:45So there wasn't much pressure that I can think of from anyone in Israel to continue much more.