Israeli media: Demarcation deal could be salvation for Israelis

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Israeli media called on the residents of northern "Israel" to go out to the streets and seek protection, noting that following talks of a possibly lost demarcation agreement with Lebanon.

The Israeli Walla News website quoted Liat Ron, a reporter and one of the most experienced Israeli economic analysts and journalists, calling on the residents of the north to go out and seek protection "because they had no other choice."

Ron said, "Go out into the streets and shout loudly what you and the heads of your settlements have been asking for more than a decade, pleading and begging decision-makers: Give us the ability to protect our children, ourselves, help us build fortified places, as you did in the Gaza envelope."

The Israeli journalist spoke about "more than 70% of the residents of the front line, to a distance of 4 km from the border, do not have fortified rooms, but only public shelters."

Furthermore, she said that "From 4 to 10 km from the border, the situation is worse. As alarms for rockets falling precede the impact by a few seconds only, if it precedes it at all, they have no chance of reaching the shelter, and when Hezbollah wages war, the fighting in Gaza will look like a cease-fire. Thousands of rockets will be fired at the settlements, and whoever is not in a fortified place will be killed or their life would be in danger."

Ron also argued that "Netanyahu and his group, who were supposed to protect you, now turn you into cannon fodders. Do not allow this and do not be misled behind superficial national slogans, do not be silent. The agreement with the Lebanese is the only salvation for you now, and is the difference between life and a mass disaster."

Ron advocated for "igniting the streets and asking for quick solutions for the front-line residents."

The analyst's statement was preceded by statements from the Minister of Tourism in the Israeli occupation government, in which he hoped that "the agreement with Lebanon regarding the demarcation of the maritime borders will be completed before the elections."

This comes after the Israeli Yediot Aharonot newspaper, on Thursday, quoted a high-ranking political source as saying that the Israeli occupation had received Lebanon's remarks regarding the draft demarcation agreement and that it had rejected them.

Subsequently, a member of the Lebanese negotiating team on the demarcation of the maritime borders, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, confirmed that "Lebanon does not care about the Israeli response to the Lebanese proposals regarding the maritime border demarcation agreement," noting that the American mediator, Amos Hochstein, "must bear responsibility" in this regard.

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