The residents of the north are preparing for the struggle: “If there is a political agreement, we will not return home”

In less than an hour since it was opened, the group “Do not return with a political agreement” included more than 1,200 members. Many of the residents of the confrontation line on the northern border, those who were evacuated and those who were not, expressed outrage at her On The increasing shooting in the north in recent weeks, and in the face of it – what appears to be an apparent decision by the State of Israel to temporarily end the shooting and to reach a cease-fire agreement with Hezbollah, an initiative which the Americans and the French are currently promoting.

“The big sale of the residents of the north” – with these words it opened today (Monday) The group around 7:00 am. Among its members are prominent activists from the multitude of civil society organizations from the north, who decided to join forces for the next step in the struggle.

The reason for the organization, which is intended to promote a protest movement that is expected to start a series of demonstrations later this week, is to exert pressure on the government not to allow the return of the residents of the north to their homes before a military decision by Hezbollah.

“What are talks and agreements with terrorist organizations worth?”

Along with the residents, the politicians, who have not expressed a firm position on the situation so far, decided to issue an ultimatum to the government. “The IDF must take significant action and drive Hezbollah away,” he said Mayor of Shlomi Gabi Naaman. “We cannot have lawyers negotiate with these murderers, and we must speak to them in their language and keep them away from the fence.”

“Those who talked about a ceasefire and an agreement in the last few days received a crushing answer today about the value of talks and agreements with terrorist organizations,” said the mayor of Kiryat Shmona, Avihai Stern. During the day, a heavy volley was fired at the city, the likes of which has not been seen in the city for several weeks. 40 rockets launched towards the city directly hit several buildings and caused heavy damage to residential buildings.

“Whoever thinks that the residents of Kiryat Shmona will return to the city to be ducks on the range is seriously mistaken,” Stern concluded.

It should be noted that, as of now, both Naaman and Stern have not indicated what actions they intend to take to face such a decision, if it is made.

“They will meet us in their offices anywhere”

According to several publications on Arab news sites, the agreement that is being formulated by the French and American mediators talks about a complete ceasefire, the movement of Hezbollah forces between 10 and 15 km north of the border and the introduction of Lebanese army forces and other international forces into the buffer that will be created. According to the foreign publications, Israel is ready for an agreement on the condition that it has the right to use fire if Hezbollah forces return towards the border.

Leaflet of the 1701 lobby opposing a political agreement

So far, no official has commented or elaborated on Israel’s position regarding the agreement. Last week, Defense Minister Yoav Galant and Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi announced during their visits to the north that the army is prepared for a mission inside Lebanon, and in the meantime the outline of the agreement leaves many open questions, the main one being – even if an agreement is signed, to what extent can the promises of Hezbollah, whose soldiers live in The Shiite villages along the entire border and have been for 17 years violators systematically the decision of the“1701 The end of the Second Lebanon War, which stipulated that the organization’s forces would not position themselves south of Litani, which is 40 km from the border with Israel.

“The state is telling us that they don’t want two arenas, so we are going to an agreement,” says Matan Davidian, a Shlomi resident and one of the protest leaders. Davidian is referring to the words of the head of the National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, who during the last weekend said that the cabinet does not want to promote a front in Lebanon because of the fighting in the south and the possible entry into Rafah.

At the same time as the Negev said, The increasing number of publications, some of which are contradictory, is a possibility for a ceasefire in Gaza that will lead to a ceasefire in the north, only increases the anger of the residents, who feel that the decisions made regarding the north are secondary to the situation in the south.

Davidian claims that the ministers and MKs he met in the north last month refuse to say anything unequivocal – either regarding an agreement or regarding the expansion of the war. “If the government leads us to an agreement that will not change the situation at the border – it will bear severe consequences. They will meet us in their offices everywhere.”

Angry Harry shirt. “The residents of the north will no longer accept a reality of security, economic, health, and social neglect” (photo from the store’s website)

Omri Lerner, who lives near the Lebanese border, launched this past weekend a site for buying branded clothes and flags with the image of the red roaring lion. He called the brand ‘Angry Harry’. “Angry Harry says that the residents of the north will no longer accept a reality of security, economic, health, and social neglect“, Wrote on the purchase site, who invites to purchase various items as part of a throne fundraiserPSea for the campaign. “In the first phase, the movement creates local teams in every locality in the north and in every evacuation center. Later on the protest will move to campaigns that will demand the State of Israel to provide solutions to the North, and in the third stage to remind all the citizens of the country that it will not be possible to continue without providing solutions to the North“.

“Residents with children will not return to such a situation”

Besides the shooting in the direction of Kiryat Shmona, the residents of the Finger of the Galilee were shot during The last day over 60 rockets. In one of the groups of the kibbutzim in the area, a story was told about a family from Pune who came to their abandoned home last week for the first time in seven months to take a number of things.

The IDF allowed the entry after many requests, but in order to protect the family, Haifa forced the entry by launching shells towards Lebanon. Another resident, who lives in Moshav Shtula, was saved from a direct hit by a missile in his home, when he hid in the MMD while he arrived home from the hotel to assess the damage in the settlement

““Seven months in a hotel has serious consequences,” Limor Etzion, an evacuee from Shlomi who has been living in a hotel in Haifa since the beginning of the war, told Dabr. “Families are falling apart, the children are not learning. no life But if all this ends in a political agreement, we will not return home. The demand is very simple – to return to a reality where you can lead a normal life without threat.”

“Residents with children will not return to such a situation. Unequivocally,” Shlomo adds Amsalem, also a resident of Shlomi. According to him, this week will be a turning point in the attitude of the residents to the situation they are in. “In my opinion, most of the residents today understand that it is either to go on the attack or to stop. Stand up for your killers, let them kill you. There is no magic solution.”