Doron Schnafer, spokesman for the municipality on the barrage to Kiryat Shmona/Kiryat Shmona municipality spokeswoman
There is great anger in Kiryat Shmona over the intention of the Isrotel chain to evacuate the city's residents staying in the chain's hotels.
During the week, the residents were required to vacate the hotels of the chain in early March, and move to other hotels.
In a long conversation held last night (Sunday) by Mayor Avihai Stern and his team with Isrotel CEO Lior Raviv, the mayor urged the network's CEO to retract his "immoral decision", but the CEO refused.
At the end of the conversation, the CEO of Isrotel told the head He commented that he offers to meet and think together about what to do when in any case the end result was finding a solution for the residents' departure and for the help of the Isrotel company in transporting the residents' equipment to alternative hotels, to which the mayor did not agree, according to the municipality's statement.
Mayor Stern was outraged by the decision: "The slogan together we will win is probably not relevant on the Isrotel network. Every family that books a hotel room on the Isrotel network will know that they are once again deporting a family with children from Kiryat Shmona and uprooting them from their temporary home. How much more humiliation can one endure? Once they were not vacationing During the winter months, they saw us as meat stock and chickens that lay golden eggs. We were taken advantage of. They embraced the residents of Kiryat Shmona and even approached us to send more and more residents to the hotels of the chain, but now that spring and summer are coming, they want to displace us again and prefer the big money to the unity that is so necessary at this time war".
Residents of Kiryat Shmona evacuate their homes/Flash 90, Eyal Margolin
"The war is not only ours, but the whole country's."
Stern/Official website, Kiryat Shmona municipality spokeswoman
The mayor added that "the war is not only for the residents of Kiryat Shmona, but for the entire country. In fact, the residents of Kiryat Shmona have been used and are being used for years as the state's police force and it is a shame that this is the treatment they give us.
Absolutely disgusting insensitivity.
I was shocked to hear the CEO of the Yisrotel chain claim in my ears that we cannot host evacuees together with guests from the center of the country in the same hotel. He told me that they are a private business entity. When I told him that the residents of Kiryat Shmona are no different from any guest, he stuttered and said, "You understand what I meant. So no." Honorable sir. I do not understand and I will not accept another displacement from the house, even if it is temporary. We have stopped being cannon fodder for the owners of the century. I am ashamed and disgraced."
Municipality spokesman Doron Schnafer, who was tasked by the mayor and the city management with preparing a focused campaign on the issue, said that "it is a shame that instead of allowing us to take care of our residents who are displaced from their homes for 135 days and strengthen the resilience of our community, we are made to deal with the illusory decision of another evacuation. This is not an evacuation, This is deportation. Last weekend when the alarms didn't stop, we still ran through the streets of Kiryat Shmona among the dozens of missiles that fell in the city and caused a lot of destruction, we risked our lives and wept at the sight of new houses that were destroyed and look what we are dealing with today.
People just lost it.
To be clear - we will not accept any forced evacuation.
We ask our residents to ignore the messages they receive from Isrotel management and stay in the hotels.
We are nobody's playthings.
Even the force of the Israel Defense Forces will not be able to get our residents out of the hotels. There is a limit to every trick. I suggest that the management of Isrotel withdraw from the delusional decision because in any case the residents of Kiryat Shmona will not evacuate anywhere, so why cause an unnecessary commotion that only does harm? A war of swords "Barzel is not the war of Kiryat Shmona only, but a war of the entire country. We appreciate and cherish the other networks that do not join the delusional and immoral decision of the Isrotel network which at this moment revealed its values - a purely economic entity."
The director of the evacuation in Kiryat Shmona, Elad Kozhikro, said: "For over four months, we have been engaged in the construction of our community and its rehabilitation. We went hand in hand with the Yisrotel network and gave it our trust and responded to its request to refer many residents to the network. Unfortunately, we now realize that we were taken advantage of, and as soon as the winter season ended, we were asked To leave the hotel in shame and look for another place to free up the rooms for those who can pay more. Money has once again defeated values. Even these days when we seek to multiply free love, we have been exposed to the less beautiful faces of business entities in the State of Israel. The residents of Kiryat Shmona are neither a game nor a deserter. We will fight for our honor with right and not with grace. To be clear, none of us will bow our heads and leave the hotel. Even if we are evicted, we will do it with our heads held high and with the pride typical of our amazing residents. I very much hope that somewhere in the management of Yisrotel they will come to their senses and cancel the evil of the decree one hour earlier." .
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