Eliana Eliezer's family settled in a hotel in the coastal city of Tel Aviv after they were evacuated from their home on the Gaza border a few days after the October 7 attack, nine months ago.

Eliana, who used to work as a kindergarten teacher in the town of Nir Am, near the border with Gaza, says, “At first we thought that we would return to our homes and areas after a few days, but the days turned into months.”

She added to Xinhua News Agency, "All that matters to us now is returning to our areas and our routine, the end of the fighting, and the return of the detainees."

Eliana's family is one of thousands of families evacuated by the Israeli government from the Gaza envelope days after the Hamas attack on towns in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

The attack resulted in the deaths of 1,200 people and the taking of 250 hostages, according to official Israeli data.

Since that day, Israel has launched a large-scale attack on the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 37,000 people, according to Palestinian statistics.

Eliana wonders how long this situation will continue, calling on the Israeli government to "find quick solutions to return them to their areas."
Israel continues to extend the stay of evacuated families in hotels at government expense, but others have preferred to travel outside Israel.

According to the Zaman Yisrael website, 550,000 people left Israel in the first six months of the war and did not return.
Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi says, "Hamas must be defeated and Israel must not hesitate."

Davidi added to Xinhua News Agency, "The Gaza Strip still poses a danger to us, and we must prevail. Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia must be wiped out, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can make history by being the one who defeated Hamas."

The city of Sderot, near the Gaza Strip, was attacked by Hamas fighters on October 7th.

The situation of Aviad Avraham, who lived in the town of Kiryat Shmona, near the border with Lebanon, was not much different from the situation of Eliana.

Aviaad settled in a hotel in the coastal city of Haifa, after he and his family were evacuated from the town, which was the site of Lebanese Hezbollah missiles.

Since the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza, Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire on the border on an almost daily basis.

The last military confrontation between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah was in 2006, and since then Israel's northern border has been in a state of relative calm.

The fighting on the border between the two sides resulted in the killing of 26 people in Israel, including 11 civilians, according to statistics published by Israeli media.

According to Israeli statistics, Israel evacuated more than 45,000 from border towns near Lebanon.

Aviad, a father of three children, says, “We are now living in a state of instability and uncertainty.”4
The forty-year-old man added to Xinhua News Agency, "We no longer have confidence in the government. It has abandoned us. No official or minister came to talk to us."

Most of the Israeli towns near the border with Lebanon seemed empty of residents and signs of life.
However, a small number of the residents of these towns did not leave and remained in their areas, and military and civilian forces provided them with the necessary services, and David Cohen is one of them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pledged to return the residents of the north to their areas, until the opening of the school year on the first of next September.

During a visit to the northern border last week, Netanyahu said, “We will achieve victory here too, no less,” according to a statement issued by his office.

He added, "We are determined to carry out the mission of defending the state and achieving victory, no less."

However, Moshe Gilad believes that the Netanyahu government has “abandoned” the residents of the north.

He said, "Netanyahu and his government have abandoned us. What are they doing to return us to our regions? Nothing. They are issuing loud and false slogans without any action on the ground."

Moshe, a father of two children, tells how his children used to wake up terrified to the sound of sirens and missiles before they moved to live in a hotel near the Dead Sea.
Israeli media reported that Defense Minister Yoav Galant presented to American officials during his recent visit that Israel would accept a settlement with Lebanon that would include removing Hezbollah from the border and ensuring the return of the residents of the north to their homes, something that was opposed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Minister Ben Gvir called in a government session to implement a military operation in Lebanon against Hezbollah, similar to Hamas in Gaza, to ensure security and not repeat the scenario of the attack of last October 7.
Eli Sunsky, a shop owner in the Hulata area in the Upper Galilee, described the situation in the cities and towns of the north in an interview with ((Xinhua)): “There are no longer tourists in the north, and there are no longer local residents either. Our customers have been evacuated from Yiftah, Manara, and Al-Malikiyah, and the hotels have been closed.” In the Galilee and the Golan.
State Comptroller Netanyahu Engelman warned that Israel is not adequately prepared to evacuate residents in the event of a war breaking out in the north.
He said in a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, "Things must be put in order. There is no place for the lack of consensus that has continued for a long time. There is a need for unified and organized government action."
Tensions and statements between Israel and Hezbollah have escalated in recent days.
Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, said that no place in Israel would be “safe” from its missiles, days after the Israeli army announced that it had completed all operational plans to launch an attack on Lebanon.
The mayor of Metula, David Aziolai, told Xinhua, "Netanyahu is disconnected from reality and does not know what is happening in Galilee. When he comes to visit the north, he goes to visit the army and does not come to us to tell us that I failed and that I do not have solutions to the situation in the north."