KIRYAT SHMONA, northern Israel – While the U.S. and Israel negotiate an end to the war in Gaza, missiles are still flying on the northern border with Hezbollah. Many in this part of the world believe a larger war there is just a matter of time.
Recently, a Hezbollah rocket hit the building where Valentina and Valeri Shevzov live in Kiryat Shmona.
“The home went like this, yes?” Valentina said, making a shaking motion.
“We heard a loud explosion,” Valeri added, “but we didn’t expect it to be in our building.”
The city’s mayor, Avichai Stern, explained that while the rockets are manufactured in Lebanon, the technology is Iranian.
“We have 22 hits, direct hits of residential buildings, and peripheral damage is even bigger,” Stern stated. “We have four kindergartens, three daycare centers, and two schools that were hit.”
Kiryat Shmona is about six miles away from the Lebanese border. Most of the residents have evacuated. They’re some of the more than 80,000 Israelis who have evacuated along the length of the northern border.
Overlooking the Syrian border near Lebanon, Reserve Israeli Defense Forces Col. Marco Moreno tried to give Americans an idea of the threat to Israel.
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