Meretz Chairman Zahava Gal-On told Channel 10 Tuesday evening that, "The ceasefire comes too late and the terms prove that Operation Protective Edge was a strategic loss for Netanyahu who entered a war without goals, and finished by giving huge gains to Hamas on the backs of residents of the south." Gal-On added that, "The grief that this pointless operation inflicted on the people of Israel was inflicted upon us by an irresponsible government."