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Israel media: Hezbollah has inflicted considerable damage on Israeli infrastructure

Tuesday, 26 November 2024 3:08 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 26 November 2024 3:36 PM ]

Israelis stand outside a house hit by rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona on November 26, 2024. (AFP)

Israeli media say Hezbollah has inflicted considerable damage on settlements, military bases and infrastructure in the northern part of the occupied territories since October 2023.

According to property tax data obtained by Hebrew outlets, “a disturbing partial image emerges that indicates destruction and damage to approximately 9,000 buildings and over 7,000 vehicles that were damaged mainly by Hezbollah fire.”

“In the conflict line settlements, there is almost no building that does not require renovation - or demolition and rebuilding,” reported the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth on Tuesday.

The northern settlements and cities of Kiryat Shmona, Manara, Shtula, Zarit, Nahariya, and Shlomi have sustained the highest level of damage. The report says the real scale of destruction has been “shrouded in a heavy fog.”

In Kiryat Shmona, the losses are “unimaginable.” Mayor Avichai Stern has said every settler unit needs renovation, which will take months.

Stern said there is no plan in place to receive the settlers back north.

“When they see where they returned and to what reality they returned – the second wave of departure will be wider.”

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David Azoulay, the head of the settlement council in Metulla, reported that 70% of homes there have been destroyed.

Moshe Davidovitz, chairman of the Conflict Line Settlements Forum, said, “Israel has no idea what the extent of the damage is and what needs to be done and treated the day after the war.”

“There are many injuries in the north that have not yet been reported, because the tenants are being evacuated or because the injuries are in areas that cannot be entered according to the army's instructions.”

The first months of the war saw Hezbollah meticulously targeting settlements, nearby bases, and military sites. As Israel continued to escalate, Hezbollah’s operations gradually extended deeper north.

After the pager attacks in Lebanon and the assassination of Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in late September, and in the weeks that followed, Haifa and Tel Aviv entered Hezbollah’s range of fire.

Many in Israel now assume that a potential ceasefire deal with Hezbollah means an Israeli “surrender agreement” with the Lebanese resistance movement.

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