Tehran, IRNA – The head of Margaliot settlement in northern Israeli-occupied territories has acknowledged that Israeli settlers hide behind walls out of fears of missile and drone attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.

According to Al Ahed news website, Israeli sources say the situation is turbulent in the northern occupied territories of Palestine as a result of the Lebanese resistance’s retaliatory strikes.

Eitan Davidi, head of the council of Margaliot settlement, told Israel’s Channel 13 that settlers residing in this settlement cannot normally commute due to the chaotic situation.

He underlined that settlers themselves manage the municipal responsibilities in the Margaliot, and there is no presence of the cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the northern areas.

Israel makes all-out efforts to avoid full-scale war with Lebanon, he claimed, urging the cabinet in Tel Aviv to pave the ground for the safe return of settlers to their settlements.

However, some Israeli media outlets reported that Hezbollah succeeded in creating a security belt in the northern occupied territories, which caused the abandonment of settlements in these areas. Haaretz newspaper reported that the war in the northern Palestinian land has not stopped, and the eruption of a full-scale confrontation is possible.

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