(1 Dec 2024)
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Northern Israel, Israel – 30 November 2024
1. Lebanon seen from Israeli side of border
2. Various of Dror Cohen and his wife Yafa, a couple from Haifa, standing on a high ground point looking at Lebanon
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Orly Maestro, visitor from Kibbutz Kfar Blum in northern Israel:
“No I’m not afraid. I feel now like I felt before the war, that we were just driving here and we saw the people there, also with the Hezbollah flags, doing like that (waving the flag) for us and we didn’t afraid, until the 7th of October. Now I feel the same, they will not dare to do that for citizen people (civilians) now, and we hope it will go on like this.”
4. Various of people looking at Lebanon
5. Various of border scenes
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dror Cohen, visitor:
“We came to realize what happened here, and what we tend to pass after what was done here, and what we’ve passed here. We wish, we all wish that it was stopped and that we can go back again to a normal life to raise our children, grandchildren, and to live here in peace with our neighbour Lebanon. Lebanon are not enemy, there is someone else (that is an) enemy that lives in Lebanon (referring to Hezbollah)."
7. Various of visitors
STORYLINE:
Curious Israelis visited the bordering areas with Lebanon on Saturday as a ceasefire brokered by the U.S. and France appeared to continue to hold after it took effect on Wednesday.
For the first time in more than a year, since the war started on October last year after Hamas militants launched an attack from the Gaza Strip, Israelis were able to visit areas that had seen harsh fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters.
Despite occasional echoes of distant machine-guns, the truce has brought calm to Israel’s northern border.
Israelis coming here over the weekend for the first time say they wanted to see with their own eyes what happened, now that they feel safe enough.
Dror Cohen and his wife Yafa drove about 100 kilometers (or 63 miles) from the town of Kiryat Tiv’on.
They stood on a high ground, littered with bullet casings, and few empty ammunition boxes.
“We came to realize what happened here,” Cohen said. “We wish, we all wish that it will stop and that we can (go back) to a normal life to raise our children, grandchildren, and to live here in peace with our neighbor Lebanon,” he told The Associated Press.
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