Waffe arrest ensures calm in Northern Israel, but Hezbollah threats remain

Waffe arrest ensures calm in Northern Israel, but Hezbollah threats remain

A ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Hisbollah in Lebanon has now been valid, but many residents of the northern communities of Israels refuse to return home. Those who have remained are skeptical that this agreement will bring permanent peace.

The Israeli security team agreed on Tuesday to the agreement mediated by the USA, which ends hostilities for over a year in which thousands were killed .

situation in the border town of Shtula

CNN visited the border town of Shtula on Wednesday just a few hours after the ceasefire came into force. This front community is only a few hundred meters away from the Lebanese border and once housed around 300 inhabitants, many of whom fled last year.

hours after the start of the ceasefire was still a ghost town, only a handful of residents lived there.

While CNN was in town, there were some explosions nearby that sounded like outgoing artillery shots. At a time, CNN also heard shots in the distance.

fears of the residents

Shtula is one of the most dangerous places in northern Israel, since the residents have been threatening for months of threats by Hisbollahs tank defense rockets . The residents fear that this threat will remain beyond the ceasefire.

ora Hatan, who stayed in her home in Shtula, described the morning after the armistice as “unusual” after months of uninterrupted artillery shot. "We wake up for a quiet morning. After a year it is unusual," said Hatan to CNN. "It is peaceful; we are not awakened by bombing and do not run into the shelters."

historical agreements and current situation

The ceasefire over 60 days aims to Resolution 1701 of the UN Security Council to implement, an almost twenty-year-old agreement that stated that only the Lebanese army and un-peaceful should be armed in the south of the Libanese flow.

This means that neither Israeli armed forces nor the Hisbollah fighter in the South Labanon may work. While the 2006 resolution came into force, both Israel and Hisbollah have accused each other several times of the injury.

global reactions

The ceasefire agreement was made by global leaders, including US President Joe Biden , who also celebrated, that also emphasized that Israel “keeps the right to self -defense” if the Hisbollah “or someone else” breaks the agreement.

The Israeli President Isaac duke Ensure residents in northern Israel. "The emerging agreement only has to pass one test - to guarantee the full security of all residents in the north," he posted on Tuesday on X.

pessimism on site

While mediators hope that the ceasefire agreement and the 1701 resolution can form the basis for permanent peace, many Nord Israeli residents are less optimistic.

Before the ceasefire came into force, some residents of the

Guy Amilani, a resident of the nearby Kibbutz Eilon, who was in Nahariya that afternoon that afternoon, expressed the hope that the ceasefire would bring peace, however, doubted that the hostility could be ended. "It will be quiet for two years and then they (Hisbollah) will start shooting again," he said. “And then my children will guard the gates of the Kibbutz against evil that will come back in 30 or 40 years.”

in September added a new destination Add to ongoing war and focused on the border with Lebanon and the thousands of evacuated citizens. This happened, as the official representative and resident of the northern region of Israel, increasingly pointed out the need to return to their houses.

federal government and local communities

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the mayors of the northernmost communities of Israel that he would not immediately urge the residents with the Hezbollah to return to their houses, said a mayor who took part in the meeting. "He said that he understands that we cannot return at the moment, but nobody tells us that we have to return," said Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avihay Shter. “He understands that work is still necessary until we can return.”

The meeting between Netanyahu and the mayors were controversial after several mayors - including Shtern - had criticized the ceasefire agreement as “surrender”. "I left the meeting very frustrated," said Shter and added that Netanyahu could not convince him that the agreement would leave his community to safety.

he feared the fear that the Hisbollah could penetrate the Südlk Lebanon again and once again represent a threat to the northern communities of Israel.

resistance to return

While SHTSE recognized that the Israeli military of the Hezbollah has made a difficult blow in the past few months, he does not believe that it will be enough to prevent Hamas from being reorganized and presenting a threat to his community again. "I can't say to anyone that he should come back in this reality," he noted.

On Wednesday, Shter said in a video message: "Nobody comes home, there is no decision to return." Ori Eliyahu, a former displaced person who returned to the border town of Shtula two months ago, described the Israeli government as a “joke” for negotiating a ceasefire. "You didn't do anything. A tank defense rocket was fired here two days ago," said Eliyahu on Tuesday. While he returned, he noticed that residents with children would unlikely - out of distrust of the Agreement with the Hezbollah. "Of course we don't trust them (Hisbollah)," he added.