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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 559

Western Galilee

Malak Khizran, right, with her mother, Malika, at their home in the Druze village of Yarka, Western Galilee on March 4, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
March 11, 2025, 12:46 pm
Oft-overlooked Druze see new NIS 3.9 billion plan as step to address old grievances
After a Haifa stabbing attack mislabeled as terrorism sent fear through the close-knit Druze community last week, Sunday’s government package sparks hope as ‘end to painful issues’
By Diana Bletter
Adeb Mazal, head of the Bedouin village Arab al-Aramshe, stands in the community center that was destroyed in an April 2024 Hezbollah rocket attack on March 2, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
March 4, 2025, 8:28 am
Bedouin and Jewish residents who evacuated from north return home to mourn and rebuild
With schools now open, the communities of Arab al-Aramshe and neighboring Kibbutz Adamit in the Western Galilee rethink their ‘naivete’ about dangers beyond the border
By Diana Bletter
Ori Shaked holds up a charred robot vacuum in his house on Kibbutz Hanita that was destroyed in an October 13, 2023 Hezbollah rocket attack on January 6, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
January 8, 2025, 1:37 am
Inside the Lebanon-border closed military zone, kibbutz members prepare to start over
The tenuous Hezbollah ceasefire is still in place as Hanita and Rosh Hanikra residents make rare visits to their homes to salvage what few belongings are not shattered
By Diana Bletter
Miro Vahknin, a member of the first response team of Rosh Hanikra, in his hair salon in Nahariya on November 26, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
November 26, 2024, 5:06 pm
Northern evacuees question whether a ceasefire deal is enough to see them home
While some officials and residents express dismay at a continued lack of security plans for their communities, others dream of returning to their fields — or at least ‘normal’ life
By Diana Bletter
The property in northern Nahariya where Ziv Belfer, 52, and Shimon Najm, 54, both residents of the city, were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on November 12, 2024. (Tsipi Aloni)
November 13, 2024, 9:22 pm
‘History repeats itself’ as South Lebanon Army veteran, Israeli killed side-by-side
Friends Shamoun Najm, 54, and Ziv Belfer, 52, didn’t have time to reach a nearby shelter before impact of lethal Hezbollah rockets, their Nahariya neighbors say
By Diana Bletter
Ziv Belfer (left), 52, and Shamoun Najm, 54, residents of the northern coastal city of Nahariya, who were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on the city on November 12, 2024. (Courtesy)
November 12, 2024, 10:00 pm
Two men killed in Hezbollah rocket attack on Nahariya, IDF pounds southern Lebanon
Israel hits 100 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon over last day, strikes terror group sites in Beirut, as IDF says it’s destroyed majority of Hezbollah arms sites in capital
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
An air defense system fires interceptor missiles at rockets fired from Lebanon, as seen from Mitzpe Netofa, northern Israel, November 3, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
November 10, 2024, 5:50 pm
Airstrikes reported near Beirut, Damascus; 6 hurt in rocket attacks on northern Israel
Lebanese media says at least 23 killed in airstrikes in Almat, north Beirut; new defense minister says IDF has defeated Hezbollah on the battlefield; IAF downs drone from Iraq
By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman
Neighbors attempt to douse fires after a rocket attack on a house in Netiv Hashayara on October 24, 2024. (Margalit Boyarsky)
October 25, 2024, 4:45 pm
Resolutely rooted war-time farmers work together to douse Hezbollah rocket flames
At an agricultural village 15km from the Lebanon border, after a Soviet Grad directly hits a Western Galilee house, residents race to put out fires — and replant avocado orchards
By Diana Bletter
Raanan Ram, owner of Organic Farm in Klil, Western Galilee, on October 21, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
October 22, 2024, 8:30 am
An off-the-grid hippie hamlet in Israel’s north struggles for survival under rocket fire
With half the residents gone and most businesses closed, residents of the alternative community Klil work hard to maintain their laid-back lifestyle under almost daily Hezbollah attacks
By Diana Bletter
Ahmed Samniya stands by his porch window in Sheikh Danun, Western Galilee, on October 8, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
October 9, 2024, 4:49 pm
One year into the Hezbollah conflict, Arab Israelis confront their complicated identity
Living near the border with Lebanon, Sheik Danun leaders say extremists in the government — not the fighting over the border — make them feel disenfranchised from Israeli society
By Diana Bletter
Neighbors gather in front of a Kibbutz Sa'ar house that suffered a direct hit from a Hezbollah rocket attack on September 25, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
September 25, 2024, 11:38 pm
‘That could have been us,’ say Kibbutz Sa’ar residents after direct rocket hit on house
Residents describe how their pastoral home has been turned into a community of fear, where they have almost no time to respond to warning sirens of incoming rockets
By Diana Bletter
David Amzel, owner of Lechem Tene Bakery in Gesher Haziv, stands in the kibbutz with the border of Lebanon behind him on August 15, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
August 21, 2024, 10:32 am
A northern kibbutz on the edge of the evacuated zone is Israel’s new de facto border
Kibbutz Gesher Haziv residents learn to deal with a thorny reality as they try to live their daily lives alongside the threat of Hezbollah attacks
By Diana Bletter
Eeman Nasra stands by a bomb shelter being delivered to Mazra'a, August 8, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
August 8, 2024, 4:29 pm
After bloody drone strike, Galilee Arab town finally gets first of promised bomb shelters
Mazra’a mayor, Fuad Awad, put in his request soon after the war began; the shelters will help some of the 3,000 residents who have no protection
By Diana Bletter
Footage taken by an onlooker in northern Israel appears to show a Hezbollah attack drone that crossed from Lebanon, on August 6, 2024. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 6, 2024, 3:40 pm
19 injured, one critically, as Hezbollah drones strike near northern city of Nahariya
IDF says impact along highway caused by failed interceptor; terror group claims assault targeted military base; Hezbollah says reprisal for top commander yet to come
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Sgt. First Class (res.) Valeri Chefonov. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 11, 2024, 7:16 pm
IDF reservist killed as Hezbollah launches wave of drone attacks on northern Israel
Several explosive-laden UAVs impact Western Galilee as others downed by air defenses over Upper Galilee, IDF says; man caught looting homes in evacuated northern town
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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