Published: 26 March 2026
Last updated: 26 March 2026
On Saturday evening, while watching television reports about two devastating missile strikes, it became difficult for Israelis to dismiss the thought that their country may not be “winning the war” against Iran.
In subsequent days, a wave of further missile strikes saw more than half the entire population ordered into shelters, raising the prospect in people’s minds that Iran may remain an ongoing threat in a protracted war of attrition, even after the war “ends”.
Faced with this distress, the Israeli media has been transmitting conflicting messages: on the one hand thoroughly covering the missile strikes and their impact, while on the other promoting patriotic endurance and statements of army spokesmen and commentators that Israel has the upper hand.
“The stations still see their role as holding up morale but it’s getting harder and harder with these pictures that they have to show to some extent,” Allyn Fisher-Ilan, former news editor at The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz English told The Jewish Independent.
The stations still see their role as holding up morale but it’s getting harder and harder with these pictures.
Channel Twelve, the most popular television station, showed shocking footage of a large building from the southern city of Arad whose façade had been blown off, exposing decimated apartments. “Complete devastation. Complete destruction. Why wasn’t the missile shot down?” a journalist asked.
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Mark Ian27 March at 07:05 am
Iran found paths to accelerate its ballistic missile arsenal with pay loads of 750kg to 1500 kg of destruction into the thousands and buried deep in missile cities. Plans to recover enriched uranium buried in the Natanz and Fordow nuclear plants and elsewhere were being prepared for recovery . The targeting of IRGC leaders and Ali Khamenei was in reaction to the cruel murders of thousands many estimate tens of thousands protestors . Israel was compelled to attack and the casualties during the remaining ballistic barrage while tragic would be catastrophic if thousands of ballistic missiles would be launched from Iran .