Israeli Mayors Say Netanyahu ‘Failed Us’

Sunday’s massive attack in which 350 Hezbollah missiles and rockets pounded Israeli cities, towns, settlements and military bases created much anger among the Israeli public who are now blaming the extrmist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being responsible for what is happening.

Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav said, Sunday, the city is suffering from a very difficult economic situation after shops were closed due to Hezbollah missiles.

Yahav added to the Hebrew channel, i24 News, he has gone to the Knesset  to explain to its members of the exceedingly difficult situation in the city.

He explained “the Finance Committee in the Knesset and the Israeli state do not understand or know the terrible and dangerous events taking place in Haifa, as the city has been continually targeted on a daily basis, the economy is collapsing and the city is economically stagnant after the shops shutdown.”

Hezbollah is intensifying its targeting of the Israeli city, which includes important military and economic facilities, in addition to targeting the Krayot settlements near Haifa Bay, which resulted in much material losses, fires and human injuries.

Also, In central Israel, Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg said psychologists were deployed in the city after a rocket was fired from Lebanon. Hebrew radio station FM 103 quoting Greenberg as saying: “Social workers are deployed at the site of the Lebanese missile’s fall.”

Greenberg explained that whilst “the injuries are moderate and light, these specialists are providing the necessary answers to ease the burden on the settlers, as a result of the successive Lebanese missiles falling on their heads.”

On Sunday, the escalation was at its highest with over 500 sirens going off all over the north and center Israel where Tel Aviv itself was hit 17 times with missiles.

Greenberg’s statements come as Channel 12 reported two Israelis were injured, one of them moderately, as a result of a missile fired from Lebanon falling on a building in the settlement of Petah Tikva, whilst air traffic at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, central Israel, was halted.

The official Israeli Broadcaster, Kan,  published a video clip showing the extensive destruction of a building in Petah Tikva, after it was directly hit by a missile, which led to a fire.

Security Failure

In the same context, Ronen Marley, the mayor of Nahariya in northern Israel, said, Sunday, Tel Aviv had failed to provide security for its citizens, and had wasted huge sums of money from its budget to no avail.

The same radio station quoted Marley as saying “the state of Israel has failed to provide security for its residents, as it previously wasted huge budgets to evacuate residents of the south (adjacent to the Gaza Strip).” He described Israel’s decision to evacuate the population as “stupid,” explaining that government had recorded a “disastrous failure” in this regard.

Over four million people spend their time down the underground shelters, double the number that took to hiding on a regular basis in the last months.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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