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Fighting with Hezbollah creates more uncertainty for Israelis living near Lebanon border

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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A year ago, Hezbollah opened fire on northern Israel one day after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in what it called solidarity with Hamas. Soon after, the Israeli government evacuated more than 60,000 residents living near the border. Nick Schifrin has been traveling across northern Israel and begins his report from Kiryat Shmona, just a mile and a half from the Lebanese border. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Despite Israel's airstrikes and ground incursion, the Israeli military said today that Hezbollah

0:07.1

fired more than 230 rockets and drones from Lebanon into Northern Israel. Cross-border rocket attacks have become

0:14.7

common over the last year. The day after the October 7th terrorist attacks on

0:19.2

Israel, Hezbollah opened fire in an act of solidarity with Hamas.

0:23.5

Soon after, the Israeli government evacuated more than 60,000 residents

0:27.9

living near the border.

0:29.5

Nick Schifrin has been traveling across northern Israel

0:32.4

and begins his report tonight from Kiryatchmona, just a mile and a half from the

0:37.1

Lebanese border.

0:39.4

The road to what used to be the largest city in Israel's north is quiet. Inside Curioz-Shimona, the homes bear

0:46.2

the scars of war. What used to be a roof over this family's head, now a gaping window

0:52.2

into their living room.

0:54.0

For 11 months, the town's been Hezbollah's biggest short-range target,

1:00.0

hit on more than 200 separate occasions,

1:03.0

including last weekend, a direct strike through the roof of the city's main mall.

1:07.8

So there's schools right across the street behind us,

1:10.2

and the Hezbollah attack struck right here.

1:12.8

Ariel Frisch is the city's deputy security chief.

1:15.9

He shows me a site hit by three rockets, two artillery shells, and one missile

1:20.4

earlier this year.

1:21.8

If we hear an alarm on the best case, it's 10 seconds.

1:25.5

Most of the time we can hear the whistle and the boom and then we hear the alarm.

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