Benny Hasson, a spokesman for Kibbutz Kissufim, referred to the escalation in the south in an interview with Galei Tzahal.

"We are not the Gaza Envelope, we are the Israel Envelope. Most of the people in the Envelope have a scar of one kind or another, we demand a solution. It cannot be that they shoot at me, I can't sleep at night, while on Route 232, 1,200 trucks with 'humanitarian' products will pass by today."