On: Netanyahu orders army to 'vigorously attack' Hezbollah in Lebanon

Another ceasefire extended by three weeks, they say. Another directive to “vigorously attack.” The words are clean, official, precise. They sound like policy. But policy is what happens in an office, on paper. I want to know what happens in the homes, in the streets, in the moments after the words are spoken.

Six people killed. That is the number they report. But numbers are not evidence - they are summaries. Who were they? Were they fighters, or were they a family sitting down to a meal? Did they hear the sound first, or see the light? Did they have time to be afraid? The directive does not say. The ceasefire extension does not say.

They speak of strategy, of deterrence, of response. But I have learned that the truth of any system is found not in its declarations, but in what it does to the people inside it. When the bombs fall, it does not matter what the paper says. It matters what the body feels. And no one in an office, signing an order, can tell you that.