100,000 Israelis were displaced by the war, and some of them do not want to return to the border areas

Effects of Hezbollah’s bombing of settlements in northern Israel (Getty)

Israeli Channel 12 said on Sunday that about 100,000 Israelis are still displaced from their homes since the beginning of the war 6 months ago, according to Israeli evacuation orders.

The channel added that the Israeli government does not yet have a vision for the post-war period, noting that the date of their return to their homes is unknown.

For its part, the economic newspaper "The Marker" reported that about 20% of the Israeli families, who were evacuated since the seventh of last October, decided not to return to the areas surrounding Gaza, and are looking for alternative housing in other towns far from the combat zones.

The occupation authorities evacuated residents of many settlements around the Gaza Strip, and evacuated 28 border towns with Lebanon due to mutual bombing with Hezbollah since last October 8.

According to Al Jazeera's correspondent, since the beginning of the escalation, the Israeli settlements on the border with Lebanon have incurred losses in the agricultural, industrial and tourism sectors, especially since they were devoid of residents and turned into sites where the army and its vehicles are stationed.

More than 500 homes, buildings and shops were damaged in settlements in northern Israel, and the direct damage was concentrated in the town of Shlomi in the west and Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee, according to statistics from the Israeli authorities last February.

For his part, Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern said that residents of northern Israel cannot return to their homes as long as Hezbollah's Radwan force remains on Israel's borders.

The Israeli newspaper Maariv also revealed that a number of displaced people are planning to sell their homes in northern Israel and move permanently to its center.

Former Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi considered that the plan to evacuate the border settlements with Lebanon and the Gaza envelope constitutes a reduction in “Israel’s area” and leads to the concentration of its population in the Gush Dan area, considering that this is a strategic danger.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously said that Israel could not bear about 100,000 displaced persons within their country, stressing that this matter was unacceptable to Tel Aviv, as he put it.

Source: Al Jazeera