Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern denounced an emerging ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah, warning it could lead to “another October 7th” in Israel’s northern region.
Questioning the wisdom of easing military pressure on Hezbollah, Stern said in a statement, “I don’t understand how we went from total victory to total surrender. Why aren’t we finishing what we started?! We managed to destabilize Hezbollah, and instead of continuing to crush the organization and demolish it to dust, we’re giving it oxygen and performing resuscitation?”
He also warned that the agreement would mean the city’s 22,000 residents would get back “a destroyed city without security and without a future.”
The emerging agreement is believed to include a ceasefire, Hezbollah’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon followed by the departure of Israeli troops from Lebanese territory.