Mayors of northern border towns slam emerging Hezbollah ceasefire as ‘surrender deal’

Metula Mayor David Azoulay rips into the government amid growing reports that a ceasefire with Hezbollah could soon be reached, denouncing the pending agreement as “a surrender deal” during an interview with Channel 12 news.

Kiryat Shmona Mayor Avichai Stern also tears into “the surrender deal.”

“This agreement hastens [a repeat of] October 7 in the north and this cannot happen,” Stern writes on Facebook.

“I don’t understand how we went from total victory to total surrender,” he adds, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s slogan for the war.

“Where will our residents return to? To a destroyed city without security or a horizon? Someone here has lost it.”

Both Metula and Kiryat Shmona are near the border with Lebanon and are among the communities most devastated by the near-daily Hezbollah attacks on the north over the past year.