Matti Friedman: Northern Israel Is on Fire
“As I write, fires ignited by Hezbollah rockets rage in forests and fields across the north.” Matti Friedman on Israel’s neglected front. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
While all eyes are on Gaza, Hezbollah is redrawing Israel’s border with Lebanon.
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On Sunday evening my parents were in a cab in their town, Nahariya, near Israel’s border with Lebanon, when a boom shook the streets and buildings. A Hezbollah suicide drone had just hit near the beach promenade. The impact was followed, belatedly, by an air-raid siren—Israel’s warning systems, designed for rockets, have a harder time with drones. They …
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