With the decrease in Iranian attacks , daily life in Israel is beginning to return to normal, gradually and with some caution.
On Wednesday, the Home Front Command announced it would relax guidelines for civilians across much of the country starting at 6 p.m. local time, after several days of near-total lockdown. Schools and beaches will remain closed under the new rules, but gatherings of up to 30 people will be allowed if a shelter is nearby. Workplaces with access to these safe rooms will also be able to resume operations, the document states.
This is a"message of victory" over the enemy, said Defense Minister Israel Katz, who also stressed that despite foreign hostilities,"Israel will open the economy" and continue on its path of growth and development normally.
Iran has fired 400 ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones at Israel since Friday, killing 24 people and wounding more than 800, according to the Israeli government. However, no fatalities have been reported since Monday morning.
The heaviest bombardments occurred on Friday and over the weekend, when some 300 missiles were launched. Although most were intercepted, some managed to penetrate air defenses, destroying entire blocks in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area and displacing nearly 4,000 people.
This week's attacks, although frequent, have been less intense because - according to speculation - the Persian regime is trying to cautiously manage its stockpile of ballistic missiles.
Thus, one of the latest announcements from the spokesperson for the Defense Forces reported the launch of 30 missiles in several night waves without causing casualties, as well as the identification of Fattah-type hypersonic projectiles, according to Iranian television.
Despite this decrease, Benjamin Netanyahu's Army maintains the pace of its offensives on Tehran and other key sites in the Persian country, including nuclear and military installations, and dozens of terrorist, defense and missile launching infrastructures.
However, beyond the offensives of each side, there is a larger factor that could cause the situation in the region to change drastically.
In recent hours, President Donald Trump suggested that he might consider changing his current role in the conflict to a more offensive one, although he noted that he had not yet made a decision on the matter.
“ We'll see what happens (...) Everyone has asked me, but I haven't made a decision. Anything could happen, right?” he said when asked by the press, even considering the possible fall of the regime.
In line with his words, the Pentagon has already begun to make strategic deployments in the region, which were confirmed in the last few hours by the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
“Whether or not (Trump) had requested plans (for an attack), I wouldn’t disclose it,” he began, though he quickly emphasized: “Tehran understands exactly what the president is saying. He said they had a 60-day opportunity to reach an agreement. They should have. President Trump’s word means something. The world understands that. And at the Department of Defense, our job is to be prepared with options.”
