00:00A community on the doorstep of the Lebanese border.
00:03Here, the sounds of children playing mix with those of war.
00:08Despite the renewed fighting between Israel and Hezbollah,
00:12Ron and her family have made a choice.
00:14This time, they don't want to leave.
00:16Our family, on Saturday, October 7th, we went.
00:20We ran away, basically.
00:22We left to be with family in a more secure place.
00:26And then it went on for a year and a half.
00:30So when, in March, they say, you can come back, we came back.
00:36When the missile sirens ring, the family takes shelter a few hundred meters away.
00:41We're going to the shelter.
00:43This is where we sleep at night because the alarms are more frequent at night.
00:50These underground shelters are a lifeline for residents in northern Israel
00:54who aren't equipped with safe rooms in their own homes.
00:58I feel very safe.
01:00I feel like all the systems are doing its best to keep me safe,
01:04and I'm doing my best to keep me and my family safe as well.
01:08Lebanon is just a few hundred meters away.
01:11Across the border, buildings lie in ruins.
01:14Under recent orders by the IDF,
01:16around 700,000 Lebanese people have been told to evacuate.
01:22Inside Israel, the rules have changed.
01:25After October the 7th, 200,000 people were evacuated for their safety.
01:30But now, the government only provides aid to those whose homes have been hit by missiles.
01:35In this Jerusalem hotel, 250 survivors from Bet Shemesh are picking up the pieces.
01:41On the second day of the war, an Iranian missile struck their community, killing nine people.
01:47They got here with nothing.
01:49They don't have clothes.
01:50They don't have anything.
01:51Their cars are destroyed.
01:52So they need help, like, with everything.
01:55People really don't know what will happen tomorrow.
01:59So they're very scared and very stressed.
02:03It's a stress that will likely not end soon.
02:06Several Israeli officials now warn that the conflict with Hezbollah
02:09could last even longer than the war with Iran.
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