Today in response to an Israeli strike that killed a senior commander Hezbollah

launched one of its largest salvos into northern Israel sparking fires. Some

60,000 Israelis are displaced from the north and to understand what life is like for them and in their hometowns, we visited Curiot Shimona and found a region on edge.

In northern Israel, Israel, panic and fear.

Israelis celebrating a Jewish holiday run for cover as Israeli air defense intercept Hezbollah rockets.

Across the region there is constant anxiety for a threat that empties celebrations and also

cities.

This is Kiryat Shimona, the biggest town in Israel's north, former population 24,000, today

all but deserted.

Mall is once bustling, now empty. Much of the city is frozen in time. Supermarkets closed.

Playgrounds silent. Roads and buildings pierced by rockets fired from Lebanon just

one mile up the road.

And so the city's staff who remain are under threat and often underground.

Mayor Avachai Stern holds his meetings in a bomb shelter.

He takes a rare trip upstairs to his office in a city where he was born and raised.

In 2015, Hezbollah published a video on how it will conquer the Galilee, the same scenario as we saw in October in the South.

I do not underestimate them.

They can cause much larger damage than Hamas.

It's always better if we're the first to attack.

That call to go on the offense is shared

by some senior members of the military.

A response to eight months of thousands of Hezbollah rockets,

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