\u201cA ceasefire that does not include lethal enforcement against Hezbollah for every violation and a buffer zone free of terror up to the Litani River is not a political achievement; it is a sentence to wait for the next massacre. The residents of the north are not statistics in an international public relations show,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\t Metula Mayor David Azoulay, a member of the Yisrael Beytenu party, said residents of the north \u201cfeel betrayed once again\u201d by the deal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that it is the president of the United States who is the one announcing a ceasefire only highlights how disconnected the prime minister of Israel is from the people, and from the reality of the residents of the north,\u201d said Azoulay. In a direct appeal to Netanyahu, he said: \u201cYour basic duty as prime minister of Israel is to provide security to the citizens of the state. In practice, you fail at this time after time.\u201d<\/p>\n Merom HaGalil Regional Council chair Amit Sofer said it is \u201cunreasonable\u201d that Trump has tied the Lebanese and Iranian fronts, warning that it would lead to more years of constant threats to northern residents.<\/p>\n \u201cThe IDF should be allowed to win and achieve its goals that the political echelon set for disarming Hezbollah. A ceasefire is currently a worse option for the north than continuing the complex war reality with the missile alarms and the disruption of life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe prefer to suffer more and know that the threat is removed than a few days of apparent calm that will tarnish the entire process, and then wake up to the next disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n \t Moshav Margaliot Chairman Eitan Davidi expressed fury toward Netanyahu in an interview with Channel 12 news: \u201cWhen you look at yourself in the morning, what do you think to yourself, that you are speaking with idiots?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHow can you look at the IDF soldiers, who you send there, who are fighting heroically, I was there; they are doing amazing work, why are you stopping them? How can you explain this? All this for what?\u201d<\/p>\n Asaf Langleben, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, described the ceasefire as \u201ca pause\u201d that will inevitably lead to another round of fighting. He said the north \u201cdeserves a decisive outcome that will create real security, not a temporary illusion whose end is disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n Benny Ben-Muvhar, head of the Mevo\u2019ot HaHermon Regional Council, told Channel 12 that he cannot assure residents evacuated southward that it is safe to return home, warning that \u201cthere is no security here.\u201d<\/p>\n He said residents who evacuated south \u201care scared to come home,\u201d adding, \u201cWe\u2019ve been underground [in shelters] for two months so the IDF could do what it had to do\u2026 enough of these games.\u201d<\/p>\n Ben-Muvhar also rejected the notion that a continued IDF deployment in Lebanon would ensure calm, saying \u201cabsolutely not,\u201d and urged\u00a0 Netanyahu to convene northern leaders for a closed forum on the matter.<\/p>\n Ceasefires forced upon us<\/p>\n Opposition leaders also panned Netanyahu, saying that Israel was being pushed into positions that would ultimately erode the country\u2019s security.<\/p>\n Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said, \u201cThis is not the first time the promises of this government have come crashing down on the ground of reality.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fighting in Lebanon can finish only in one way:\u00a0removing the threat to the northern communities permanently. This will no longer happen in this government; we will do it in the next government.\u201d<\/p>\n Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman said it was \u201cimpossible to make the residents live from round of fighting to round of fighting. This is simply an unbearable reality!\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_7998-640x400.jpg\")
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\n\t\tMoshe Davidovich, head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council, stands in front of a map of the region in his office on September 23, 2024. (Diana Bletter\/The Times of Israel)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/F260326DC21-640x400.jpg\")
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\n\t\tIsraeli security and rescue forces are seen at the scene where a rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern city of Nahariya, March 26, 2026. (David Cohen\/Flash90)<\/p>\n
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