Israel Starts Evacuating City Located Near Lebanon Border

• 20.10.2023, 13:11

Kiryat Shmona has a population of some 22,000 residents.

The Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces announce that they will begin to evacuate residents from the northern city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon, reports The Times of Israel.

The evacuated people will be temporarily accommodated in state-subsidized guest houses.

The evacuation comes amid repeated rocket and missile attacks by the Hezbollah terror group and other allied Palestinian factions targeting northern Israel. On October 19, three people were wounded in a rocket attack on the city.

Kiryat Shmona has a population of some 22,000 residents, though many have already left amid the ongoing tensions.

Earlier this week, on October 16, the ministry’s National Emergency Management Authority began working to evacuate 28 communities within two kilometers of the Lebanon border.