(5 Aug 2024)
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Nahariya, Israel – 05 August 2024
1. Wide of Nahariya city with mountains of southern Lebanon in background
2. Various of beach in Nahariya
3. Shauli Jan, Nahariya resident sitting on beach UPSOUND (Hebrew) "A little food, a little water" when asked if he’s bought extra supplies in response to the threat of conflict
4. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Shauli Jan, Nahariya resident:
"The area is tense, but despite that people are still going out, some of the people, but we just want it to be calm and we would prefer to have a political arrangement and not war because we already know and humanity knows that wars don’t help. World War I killed people, World War II killed millions, we are not interested (in wars), we are interested in arrangements and we want to live.”
5. Various of Nahariya beach
6. Various roads in downtown Nahariya
7. SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Nitzan Yehuda, Nahariya resident:
"In the recent days we thought there would be something from the north from Hezbollah and also from Iran, but we are not afraid. The security has returned to us and they are afraid now more, we feel this, we are back to the deterrence power.”
8. Various of "I love Nahariya" tourist sign
STORYLINE:
A nervous calm has settled in over the coastal city of Nahariya just nine kilometers from Israel’s border with Lebanon as regional tensions simmer following twin assassinations in Beirut and Teheran last week.
While Israel braces for a response from Iran and its ally Hezbollah, residents in Nahariya on Monday seemed to be going about their lives, shopping, eating out, and enjoying the beach.
Shauli Jan, a resident of the beach town told the Associated Press "The area is tense, but despite that people are still going out".
"We would prefer to have a political arrangement and not war because we already know and humanity knows that wars don’t help," Jan continued.
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily strikes for the past 10 months against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, but they have previously kept the conflict at a low level that had not escalated into full-on war.
Last week’s assassinations of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and Hezbollah commander Shukur in Beirut raised tensions in the region. Israel has been bracing for a retaliation from Iran and its allied militias.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops and set off a fire.
The violence came as fears of an all-out regional war mount following the killings last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran.
The Iranian-backed Hezbollah said in a statement it targeted a military base in northern Israel in response to “attacks and assassinations” carried out by Israel in several villages in south Lebanon.
Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday, as the United States and allies prepared to defend Israel from an expected counterstrike and prevent an even more destructive regional conflict.
Jordan’s foreign minister made a rare trip to Iran as part of diplomatic efforts Sunday, while the Pentagon has moved significant assets to the region.
AP video produced by Areej Hazboun
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