Now the Jimmy Carter photo makes sense

https://www.debka.com/the-idf-launches-significant-operation-against-palestinian-rocket-offensive-iran-pulls-the-strings-from-beirut/

DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources reveal that, throughout this interchange on Monday, the Palestinian organizations of the Gaza Strip were being directed by a shadowy master: Iran had been managing the crisis through its Lebanese proxy Hizballah from Beirut. In fact, Tehran had set up at Hizballah HQ a joint war-room manned by the Revolutionary Guards, Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas, Popular Front and Islamic Jihad. The intensive efforts made by Egypt, Jordan and Qatar to negotiate a ceasefire slammed fruitlessly against this wall.

Realizing what they were up against, Israel’s military chiefs Monday night extended the alert zone for rocket attack from a 40km radius outside the Gaza border to 80km and as far as the Tel Aviv conurbation. In the event of a further Palestinian escalation or a rocket attack on Tel Aviv, the cabinet will be forced to revise its guidelines to the IDF and authorize ground combat as well as air strikes. “Containment” does not allow for a knockout blow against the terrorist organizations’ offensive capabilities. Their weapons stores, rocket launch pads and commanders’ hideouts are all safely interred in underground tunnels and bunkers and are therefore out of reach for aerial bombardment. Since the strings of this crisis are in Tehran’s hands, the immediate outlook for the current crisis is unclear.