A Dispatch from Israel’s Burning North
The attacks from Hizballah can’t be allowed to go on forever.
June 6, 2024
A Dispatch from Israel’s Burning North
The attacks from Hizballah can’t be allowed to go on forever.
Eleven people were injured yesterday when explosive-laden drones launched by Hizballah attacked a town near the Israel-Lebanon border. This was but one of dozens of Hizballah strikes on the region, which have sparked forest fires and set large swaths of northern Israel ablaze. On Sunday, a drone hit Nahariya, a northern city just far enough from the border to have been spared bombardment until now. The war cabinet and IDF brass are currently debating how to respond. Matti Friedman, whose parents live in Nahariya, reports:
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