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Towns Empty and Farms Languish as War Stalks Israeli-Lebanese Border

(New York Times) Euan Ward - The border between Israel and Lebanon has become a landscape of abandoned towns and neglected farms as escalating strikes by Hizbullah have displaced more than 80,000 Israelis. In northern Israel, military orders to evacuate have kept people from their homes for nearly three months amid daily missile and rocket attacks from Lebanon. "Every day people are being fired on," said Moshe Davidovitz, head of the Meta Asher Regional Council and chairman of the Confrontation Line Forum in the north. "Every day they're running into shelters. It's intolerable, and it cannot continue. We can't go on being ducks in a shooting range." Many residents work in agriculture and have been all but cut off from the farms, hothouses and chicken coops that are their livelihood, he said. One farmer, a father of three, was killed in a strike launched from Lebanon last month as he drove to his apple orchards.
2024-01-05 00:00:00
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