Settlers 'hiding behind walls' in north, Israeli settlement chief says
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The head of the Margaliot settlement council, Eitan Davidi, said the situation in the settlement was unbearable as settlers cannot leave their homes amid the Lebanese Resistance's operations.
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Israeli occupation forces examine the site hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Safed, northern occupied Palestine, Wednesday, February 14, 2024 (AP)
Israeli media reported that the situation in northern occupied Palestine has become "unacceptable," with an absolute absence of the "state", i.e., the Israeli regime, all over the north as it is subjected to the immense firepower of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah.
The situation in the northern Israeli settlement of "Margaliot" is "unreasonable", and residents do not have freedom of movement, "Margaliot" settlement council chief Eitan Davidi said on Saturday. "We cannot move. We are hiding behind the walls."
"The state is not present anywhere in the north, and civilians are the ones managing affairs there," he added.
According to Davidi, "Israel is doing everything it can to avoid confrontation with Lebanon and to reach a political settlement."
He went on to call on the Israeli regime to find a solution that ensures the safe return of settlers to the north after the mass displacement northern settlements have witnessed since October 8 in the wake of Hezbollah's operations in northern occupied Palestine.
Hezbollah 'holding settlers hostage'
Israeli media reported on Sunday that Hezbollah's military policy along the Lebanese-Palestinian border is "holding settlers in the occupied North as hostages".
Moran Aluf, an Israeli researcher, told the Israeli Kan channel that "Israel" has captives in the South and "hostages in the North", where settlers cannot return to their houses or live normally as a result of Hezbollah's retaliation.
"We ['Israel'] cannot allow an organization like Hezbollah to take settlers as its hostages," she added, noting that "Hezbollah created an equation, dictating that as long as fighting in Gaza is ongoing, then I [Hezbollah] will continue firing."
She also clarified that if any agreement is reached, it would only be temporary, adding that there is a possibility of war against the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon "because we cannot anticipate what it wants or what its intentions are. We must understand its capabilities to avoid what happened in the South."
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