Israel was unhappy about the fact that it was excluded from ceasefire talks with Iran, according to a new report.
The Wall Street Journal detailed that President Donald Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before the announcement 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.
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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.
In fact, a key Saudi pipeline taking oil to the Red Sea was hit by a drone attack on Wednesday.
Reuters detailed that the East-West pipeline was the country's only wait to export crude following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz as a result of the war.
Concretely, it was diverting about 7 million barrels a day to the port of Yanbu. Flows are now expected to be affected, the outlet noted, citing a source familiar with the development. Damage is still being assessed.
