Sha'ar HaGolan kibbutz becomes refuge for evacuees from south and north Israel

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On the shores of Lake Tiberias, the anti-aircraft alarm sounds at Sha'ar Hagolan for the first time in decades. A false alarm that reawakened fears on the border with Jordan, in this kibbutz that has been receiving evacuees from Israel's border with Gaza in the south and Lebanon in the north following Hamas' deadly attack.

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00:00 [Sounds of a storm]

00:06 I'm terrified.

00:08 All my life I lived in the north border

00:11 and I never felt such fear like I feel now.

00:16 [Sounds of a horn]

00:23 [Sounds of a crowd]

00:39 I heard the alarm and it was like, "Okay, there is an alarm."

00:45 But I didn't do anything.

00:47 My son told me, "This is an alarm?"

00:50 I told him, "Yes, it's an alarm."

00:52 "Why don't we do anything?"

00:54 And he was the one who told me, "We have to go."

00:57 I was like, "Okay, let's go."

01:00 I was freezing.

01:02 [Sounds of a storm]

01:14 [Sounds of a crowd]

01:32 [Sounds of a storm]

01:56 [Sounds of a storm]

02:24 So this is where we live in the past few days.

02:27 Much smaller than what we have.

02:30 [Sounds of a crowd]

02:34 Full of equipment that we got from the kibbutz.

02:36 A place to do laundry.

02:38 People opened their houses for every small thing.

02:41 To give us cookies, to give us games for the kids.

02:47 We felt very good and very welcomed.

02:50 And very welcome to stay also.

02:52 [Sounds of a storm]

03:01 At 6.30 we woke up to something unusual.

03:07 We heard that the whole house was shaking.

03:12 The doors were shaking.

03:16 It didn't stop for about half an hour.

03:19 And then suddenly the shouts started.

03:22 The shouts didn't stop.

03:24 But we went inside the house.

03:28 And we heard people shouting, "Don't go out, don't go out."

03:32 We started hearing shots, shots non-stop.

03:35 [Sounds of a crowd]

03:52 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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