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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

Metula

A man surveys damage caused during the recent war in Metula, on the Israeli border with Lebanon, January 2, 2025. (Yossi Zamir/ Flash90)
February 24, 2025, 12:43 pm
As northerners sent home, hard-hit Metula says more time needed to heal war wounds
With main street a construction site, the school in ruins and most residents still reticent to return, Mayor David Azoulay wants the government to wait until July to reopen the city
By Diana Bletter
Israeli military vehicles cross a cement barrier on the border between Israel and the southern Lebanese village of Dhayra, on February 17, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
February 18, 2025, 2:59 pm
Welcome to the era of the buffer zone
Whereas, in the past, Israel has semi-occupied adjacent territory, now it’s creating sterilized strips that potentially redefine its borders
By Amir Ben-David
A moving truck is one of the few vehicles in this neighborhood in Kiryat Shmona. (Uriel Heilman/ JTA)
December 19, 2024, 9:37 am
Despite Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal, northern residents fear returning home
While the conflict is officially over for now, many Israelis near the border are wary of October 7-like attacks and future wars with the Lebanese terrorist organization
By Uriel Heilman
Moshe Weinstein, 76, an Israeli farmer, touches the ladder used by his son Omer at the site of his killing by shrapnel from a rocket launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon, at his apple farm in Metula, northern Israel, December 1, 2024. (REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov)
December 3, 2024, 7:40 pm
Israeli farmer who lost son to Hezbollah rocket tries to restore his orchard
‘I came and saw the worst thing possible to see,’ says Moshe Weinstein, who found his son, along with four Thai workers, lying dead in his apple orchard
By Reuters and ToI Staff
View of a house hit from missiles fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Metula, on the Israeli border with Lebanon, November 20, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
November 25, 2024, 11:15 pm
Security cabinet member signals Lebanon deal uncertain, amid pressure to oppose it
As northern mayors cast impending 60-day truce with Hezbollah as ‘surrender deal,’ Likud minister Dichter vows to oppose agreement if it is ‘copy paste’ of UN resolution from 2006
By ToI Staff
A chair is surrounded by protective sandbags in Metula, on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon, November 20, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
November 21, 2024, 8:11 pm
‘We live in darkness’: Bombed-out Metula’s last few residents hope to rebuild
Israeli border town, surrounded by hostile Lebanese villages, is a closed military zone, with most of its 2,200 residents still displaced – and some unsure they will ever come back
By Reuters and ToI Staff
An Israeli soldier stands in front of a house hit by Hezbollah rockets in the deserted northern Israeli town of Metula on November 4, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
November 10, 2024, 3:51 pm
In the ghost town of Metula, over 60% of buildings have been destroyed by Hezbollah
David Azoulai, head of regional council, says city along border with Lebanon is ‘the most bombarded,’ and it will take years to repair damage: ‘It will not be easy, but we will’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israel's northern border on November 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
November 3, 2024, 11:46 pm
Visiting border, PM vows to restore security in north ‘with or without an agreement’
Netanyahu says ‘enforcement’ needed to push Hezbollah back across Litani River, as unnamed Israeli official says diplomatic deal could be reached in next two weeks
By ToI Staff
The site of a Hezbollah rocket impact that killed two people near Kiryat Ata in northern Israel on October 31, 2024. (Flash90)
November 1, 2024, 3:18 pm
One wounded in Hezbollah rocket barrage; IDF strikes hit Beirut for first time in days
30 rockets fired at Galilee region in latest barrage from Lebanon; IDF hits Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold overnight as Iran-backed group in Iraq launches drones at Israel
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
First responders carry the shrouded body of a woman who was killed when a rocket fired from Lebanon hit an area near Kiryat Ata on October 31, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
October 31, 2024, 3:05 pm
7 people killed in Hezbollah rocket attacks, marking deadliest day in months for north
Israeli and four Thai nationals killed in Metula orchard; pair, reportedly mother and son, killed in olive grove near Haifa; IDF hits Hezbollah sites in Syria, warns Baalbek
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
A class held in a temporary school in Eilat, November 2023. (courtesy Education Ministry)
August 31, 2024, 5:58 am
Amid deep uncertainty, it’s back to school – but not back home – for northern evacuees
For the second year in a row, many displaced students will attend temporary schools scattered across Israel as their families question when, or if, they will ever return northward
By Gavriel Fiske
Smoke plumes billow after rockets were fired from Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon towards Metula across the border in northern Israel on July 12, 2024 (Rabih Daher/AFP)
August 27, 2024, 5:35 pm
Poetry festival moves from evacuated northern border town Metula to Jerusalem
Along with most residents, event is forced to relocate southward; with poems of battle, loss and rebirth, co-director says war ‘opened a kind of black box’ of trauma for many poets
By Jessica Steinberg
Black smoke rises from homes in the northern Israeli border community of Metula after being hit by Hezbollah anti-tank missiles, as seen from the Lebanese town of Marjayoun, June 22, 2024. (AP/Hussein Malla)
June 24, 2024, 11:53 am
Two members of Metula security team injured in Hezbollah missile attack Sunday
One officer listed in serious condition; IDF strikes terror group’s sites in southern Lebanon overnight
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Alma al-Shaab shows smoke rising from an Israeli military outpost after a rocket attack by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group, on April 6, 2024. (Kawnat Haju/AFP)
April 20, 2024, 11:56 pm
IDF strikes in Lebanon kill at least 3 Hezbollah gunmen; missile hits Metula home
Army says it targeted members of the terror group throughout the day
By Emanuel Fabian
Ori Gini listens to a friend speak at a gathering for evacuated students from Israel's north in Tel Aviv on March 26, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
March 30, 2024, 9:49 am
Evacuated by rocket fire, iconic Kiryat Shmona bar temporarily transplants to Tel Aviv
Founders and patrons of unique student hangout Patifon reunite for special events to preserve community spirit until they can get back home
By Canaan Lidor
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