Hezbollah is now firing medium-range rockets at Israel that can travel ten miles. It affects areas that have so far avoided attacks from Lebanon. In a kibbutz in Yagur, not far from Haifa and 60 kilometers from the border with Lebanon, news’s correspondent meets Norwegian Kari Smith. She has both children and grandchildren in the area. She says that the tension is now constantly in the air. “The bomb will fall in one minute” – We experience the growing tension through what we see and hear on television, and the messages we receive from the kibbutz and from the defence. That now we are at level three. This means, among other things, that all schools are closed. Everyone is sitting at home at the shelters. Kari Smith seeks shelter in the bedroom when there is a bang. She doesn’t have a bomb room in the house. Photo: Gunnar Bratthammer / news Smith says that now there are bangs more often than before, and the alarms are going off all around. She shows an app on her phone which, among other things, warns of attacks near where she is staying. In a message she shows, it says that a bomb will fall in one minute. – It feels safe. People in Lebanon don’t have what we have. They don’t have the same security. Smith says that before the attack on the night of Sunday, they all had the feeling that something was going to happen. – I went to bed, slept for about an hour and woke up at 12 o’clock. I had the feeling that something is not right here. Tension was in the air. Don’t Panic Smith lives in an old house that has no shelter. She usually goes into the bedroom, which is the innermost room in the house, when the airplane alarm goes off. On the night of Sunday, she was picked up by her son, who lives in a newer house. – But there was no sleep. Even if the airplane alarm didn’t go off here, you had it all around you. Eventually they also heard the bangs. – It was probably anti-aircraft fire that exploded. That was more or less the whole night. Smith says the night was painful and heavy. Kari Smith seeks shelter in the bedroom when there is a bang. She doesn’t have a bomb room in the house. Photo: Gunnar Bratthammer / news – We won’t know from Hezbollah when they come, and that we have to flee. And we have nowhere to run to. After all, we have several million people sitting and waiting near the bomb shelters. – It’s hard, but I’m far from panicking. I may have come to the point that what happens, must happen. I have come into that mindset now, says Kari Smith. Podcast from news’s foreign editorial office: Published 23.09.2024, at 22.57 Updated 24.09.2024, at 07.02
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Norwegian Kari Smith lives in the firing line of Hezbollah’s rockets – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries
