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Opinion This cease-fire deal won’t get me to return home to northern Israel

Israelis have seen this sort of agreement before. It won’t work: The Hezbollah threat will return.

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A badly damaged home in Shlomi, northern Israel, on Wednesday, after it was hit by a Hezbollah-fired rocket from Lebanon. (Francisco Seco/AP)
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Inbar Ben Harush, from Shlomi, Israel, currently lives in Jerusalem.

The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanon feels like déjà vu — and not the good kind. As a resident of Shlomi in northern Israel who has been displaced for more than a year since Hezbollah unleashed a relentless rocket-fire campaign the day after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack in the south, I do not support this deal. It shows that the Israeli government hasn’t learned the lessons of Oct. 7 and expects my family and neighbors to pay the price.