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.
With the war in Gaza consuming Israel and the world’s attention over the past year, the relatively low-level fighting in the country’s north went largely under the radar until recently.
Mother-of-two Liat Cohen Raviv has evacuated to Rosh Pina from her home in Metula, a military zone on the Israel-Lebanon border.While she says her town is too dangerous to live in, she thinks the Israeli government erred last October by offering to evacuate anyone living within five kilometres of the Lebanon border. “That was the biggest mistake the government has made over the past 12 months,” she says.
“We want to tell the people here they can raise their kids like in a normal country and return to their homes,” a reservist who lives near Tel Aviv says, describing the north as “the most beautiful part of the country”. A fellow reservist says those who have fled their homes are “modern refugees” in their own land.
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