Metula mayor says army, govt. trying to 'normalize' rocket fire from Lebanon

The mayor of the northern Israeli settlement of Metula, David Azoulai, accused the government and the Israeli army's Northern Command of trying to "normalize" a situation of occasional rocket fire from Lebanon, after three rockets were fired from south Lebanon on Saturday morning.

“We won’t allow them to normalize this. I call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and of course IDF Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin to act offensively and make it so that not one bullet is fired ever again at northern communities,” he told the Ynet news site.

“This is a failure, this is exactly the policy of containment of October 7. Instead of dealing with nonsense, start providing security to the country’s residents,” he urged.