Mayor of Haifa in northern Israel, Yona Yahav, said on Sunday that the city is suffering from a very difficult economic situation after shops were closed due to Hezbollah missiles.
Yahav added to the Israeli channel (i24 News) that he will go to the Knesset today (Monday) in order to explain to the members of the Israeli Parliament the difficult situation going on in the city.
He explained, “The Knesset Finance Committee and the Israeli state do not understand or know what terrible and dangerous events are taking place there. Haifa is being targeted, the economy is collapsing, and the city is economically stagnant after the shops were closed.”
Hezbollah is intensifying its targeting of the Israeli city, which includes important military and economic installations, in addition to its targeting of the Krayot settlements (Haifa Bay), which resulted in material losses, fires, and human injuries.
In central Israel, the mayor of Petah Tikva, Rami Greenberg, said that psychologists were deployed in the city after a missile launched from Lebanon fell.
Israeli radio FM 103 quoted Greenberg as saying, “Social workers have been deployed at the site of the missile fall.”
Greenberg explained, “The injuries range from moderate to light, and these specialists provide the necessary answers to alleviate the suffering of the settlers as a result of the Lebanese missiles that continue to fall on their heads.”
Greenberg’s statements came while Israeli Channel 12 said that two Israelis were injured, one of them moderately, as a result of a missile fired from Lebanon falling on a building in the Petah Tikva settlement, and air traffic at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv in central Israel was also halted.
The official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation published a video clip showing widespread destruction of a building in Petah Tikva, after it was directly hit by a missile that led to it bursting into flames.
Security failure
In the same context, the mayor of Nahariya in northern Israel, Ronen Marley, said on Sunday that Tel Aviv had failed to provide security for its citizens, and wasted huge amounts of money from its budget to no avail.
The same radio quoted Marley as saying, “Israel has failed to provide security for its residents, and has previously wasted huge budgets to evacuate residents of the south (adjacent to the Gaza Strip).”
Marley described Israel’s decision to evacuate residents as “stupid,” explaining that Tel Aviv had recorded a “miserable failure” in this regard.
With the beginning of the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 7, Tel Aviv evacuated the residents of the settlements adjacent to the Strip due to rockets from Palestinian factions, and with Lebanon entering the support front the next day, Tel Aviv asked tens of thousands of Israelis to evacuate their homes in dozens of settlements near the border. Lebanese.
Haifa is located in the Carmel region, and it is the third largest city in terms of population after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, with about 300 thousand people, including 34 thousand Arabs (Palestinians whom Zionist gangs did not succeed in displacing during the Nakba).
Haifa is a center for transportation, technology, energy, and weapons industries, which makes it a strategic city that affects all of Israel, as it also includes one of the largest maritime trade centers, and its port is one of its symbols, along with the port of Ashdod.
Those who are accustomed to the new reality are the owners of companies, restaurants, cafes, entertainment venues and tourist attractions in the city, some of which have not yet opened and have been closed since the city came within range of resistance missiles and marches.
Haifa is considered the largest industrial center in the north, and its pioneering industries form the core of the city’s local economy and contribute significantly to Israel’s economic and technological development.
