PNN – A Hebrew-language newspaper has pointed to an unprecedented economic phenomenon in a northern settlement in the occupied territories.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing Shehab, the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that for the second consecutive week, residents of the occupied settlement of Kiryat Shmona have held protests over their living conditions. They are calling on Netanyahu’s cabinet to address their situation, saying the settlement has effectively become a war zone in need of extensive attention.
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The report states that Kiryat Shmona is witnessing an unprecedented economic phenomenon: only half of the companies that were active in the area before Hezbollah’s attacks have returned, and even those companies are generating only 60 percent of their pre-war revenues.
The report further stresses that more than 10,000 settlers are unwilling to return despite the halt in Hezbollah’s attacks.
Yedioth Ahronoth had previously acknowledged in another report that more than a year after the end of the war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the Zionist settlement of Kiryat Shmona in the north of the occupied territories has still not seen full reconstruction of its damaged areas, a situation that has fueled anger among Israelis.
The report adds that the story of the Zionist settlement of Kiryat Shmona is a tragic one: a settlement many of whose residents have yet to return and which is struggling to rebuild itself. Promised plans have yielded no results. It was supposed to become the main hub of the surrounding northern settlements.