Chairman Gadi Yarkoni of the Eshkol Regional Council has responded to the escalation in the security situation on the Gaza border by saying, "We've been in this regular delusional ritual for a year and a half. They launch incendiary balloons that cause fires. The IDF imposes sanctions, they respond with fire, and then we find ourselves in a 48-hour cycle of violent escalation. Eleven such rounds until have ended in nothing. And the ritual repeats itself, Heaven forbid."
Yarkoni added, "We cannot explain the policy on the subject and the rightness of its path to the residents, because we do not know what the policy is. It appears that the system is not working and we expect a dramatic change in this reality."