Bloomberg: Israel threatened by Hezbollah is searching for a solution to the empty north

Bloomberg discussed the return of the security escalation in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon, in a report published, Sunday, considering that Israel is threatened by Hezbollah, and is searching for a solution to the empty north.

Bloomberg said that the Israeli settlements are mostly abandoned, and while the world’s attention is focused on the resumption of fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the settlement highlights an upcoming problem for besieged Israel, which is how to get tens of thousands of people who have fled the region to return when there is an existential threat looming across the border.

Bloomberg said that anyone who moves to the settlement will be infected, and settlers who left the settlements in northern have no actual security and no sense of security to return.

In its report, Bloomberg cited a statement by a tank captain in the Israeli army, in which he said, “In order to allow the settlers to return, we must have a clear indication from Hezbollah in Lebanon that they do not intend to attack people”.

This issue has perplexed Israel since it fought the Lebanese Hezbollah in 2006, according to Bloomberg, confirming that, nevertheless, the feeling of instability among the residents of the Israeli settlements that line the Lebanese border has reached unprecedented levels since the influx Hamas from Gaza to the settlements of its cover on October 7 last.

The Israeli officer added that “Hezbollah has planned for years to do something very similar in the north to the attack carried out by Hamas on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip”.

Bloomberg pointed out that the Israeli military presence on the northern border is unlikely to convince Israelis living in the region to return to the settlements, in addition to that it will not reduce the threat posed by Hezbollah’s weapons, which it described as the most advanced.