Survey: 70% of Israelis Considering Not Returning to North

GAZA (KI) – Israeli media has reported that 70 percent of Israelis living in the area near Lebanon are considering not returning to their homes, according to a survey. While 60 percent say their living conditions have worsened.

Twenty percent of Israelis who lived in that area are currently unemployed, while 68 percent have not received any assistance by the regime for their businesses, the reports added. As a result, 35 percent believe the regime has handled their situation badly.
According to Israeli media, businesses in Haifa experienced a 90 percent drop in income during October 2024. One shop owner was cited as saying: “People are not coming out onto the streets, and the situation in Haifa is worrying and far from simple.”
Giora Zaltz, the chairman of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, said Hezbollah’s operations in the north are intensifying, becoming more lethal and powerful with each passing day. 
As a result, the level of security in the northern regions has decreased, leading to a deterioration of the situation in these areas.
Approximately 100,000 Israelis have been evacuated from northern parts of the occupied territories.
An opinion poll in June also discovered that nearly 70 percent of extremist Jewish settlers living in hundreds of illegal settlements in the West Bank and occupied East Al-Quds are worried for the Israeli regime’s future.
According to the survey published by the Hebrew-language Israel Hayom daily newspaper, at least 69% of settlers are worried and maintain that Israel’s future looks bleak.
The poll also showed that 67% of Israeli settlers support possession of firearms and imposition of fines “in order to prevent skirmishes and confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians inside the occupied territories.”
It highlighted that a great proportion of Palestinians, around 75%, living in the territories occupied by Israel since 1948 believe that settlers do not have the right of sovereignty over those areas.
The opinion poll also showed that 66% of settlers do not trust Zionist troops.
Last month, a survey of young Israeli adults found that nearly half of the population in the occupied territories is not optimistic about the future of the Israeli entity, while more than one-third of people are thinking about immigration to find jobs and improve their lives.
The Israel Hayom daily newspaper described the findings as “worrying” and wrote that 33% of Israeli youths are considering immigration from the occupied lands.