The head of the Eshkol council, where two people were killed in a mortar attack yesterday, pans the government for announcing an open-ended truce, even though the residents of southern Israel still don’t feel safe.
“It is very easy to reach a decision from a bunker, just like Hamas did. There’s a feeling of far from the eye, far from the heart,” Haim Yellin tells Channel 10.
“Maybe there is a ceasefire in Jerusalem, I have no idea what they are talking about,” he says, adding, “In Jerusalem they feel safe, even in some neighborhoods in Gaza they feel safe, but we certainly do not feel safe.”
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