As life on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon continues against a background of rocket fire, we speak to residents who are determined to stay.
Sitting in her living room chair as her cats nibble on pet food, Luba Gershenzon insists thatdoes not scare her. The Iranian-backed militant group boasts an estimated arsenal of 150,000 rockets, making it the world’s most formidable non-state army, according to many military experts. But Gershenzon refuses to let these “bandits” – as the Uzbeki-born grandmother calls them – force her out of her home in Israel’s northernmost city.
Her daughter has also invited her to stay with her family in Tel Aviv. Again, the answer is no. She stays put with her pet cats for company, even though her bomb shelter is not up to modern standards, and the danger has heightened since the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel’s famed
The Israeli government has now declared it intolerable for its citizens in the north to live under the threat of such attacks. Gershenzon has no doubt about who will triumph. “Everything will be all right,” she says, a phrase she repeats like a mantra. “This is a small country, but a strong one.
“Part of the Zionist narrative is holding the land,” she says. “When people first came here, they were coming to a conflict zone; they weren’t coming to Switzerland. We’ve forgotten that.”attacks against Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon and the assassination of Nasrallah. “My reaction was: welcome back, Israel,” she says. “This is who we are.
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