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Since the start of the military escalation about 6 months ago, the Israeli border settlements with Lebanon have been affected in an unprecedented way, and the losses resulting from the opening of the northern front affected the agricultural, industrial and tourism sectors.
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This reality also forced the Israeli government to implement an early plan for the mandatory evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from 28 border towns, while the Israeli authorities revealed in early February that more than 500 homes, buildings, and shops had been damaged.
According to a report broadcast by Al Jazeera, the direct damage was concentrated in the town of Shlomi in the west and Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee, whose mayor says that the cost of its maintenance alone amounted to half a million shekels per month, but he fears that the human cost will be greater as a result of the direct and repeated injuries.