Original sentence: The inhabitants of Tarshiha hoped that the merger would improve the level of services
Edited sentence: However, as time progressed, an increasingly large outcry was voiced by the Arab inhabitants that not only did the Tarshiha portion remain under-funded, but that the merger effectively froze all possible Tarshiha expansion plans.Originally, local inhabitants of Tarshiha hoped that the merger would help them get the same level of public services as Israeli Jewish towns (Arab Israeli towns have historically been under-funded by Israeli governments).Therefore, a significant portion of Arab inhabitants now demand to split the merger