JISH, Northern Israel – Hezbollah and Iran have warned of a massive aerial barrage on Israel in the coming days. So CBN News visited northern Israel to see how communities are coping with this threat, and we found resilience in unexpected places.
Residents who chose to stay here in the north remain on high alert. Still, life continues with surprising courage in Jish, a Maronite Christian community just two miles from the Lebanon border.
Here at Saint Maroun Church in Jish, only about two miles south of the border with Lebanon, for every year for the last 25 years, they’ve had a summer camp with up to 400 people. But this year, things look a lot different.
Despite this area being considered a war zone by many, this Maronite church is still holding its annual summer kids’ camp, albeit with a few modifications.
The Israeli government has put limits on the number of children that can be in one place at one time since the war started back in October, but especially after the terrible tragedy that took place where a Hezbollah rocket dropped into a soccer field and killed 12 children in the Druze village of Majdal Shams.
Camp leader Kamel
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